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Amelia Earhart First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
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Wright advocated the image of African Americans as members of the working class in his article in the New York Amsterdam News
"I have found in the Negro worker the real symbol of the working class in America." -
Richard Wright
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584,000 students enrolled in agricultural courses
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car cost $800
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anual sallary $1900
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women in the work place
Women were crucial to the war effort in the factories, as well. The image of Rosie the Riveter proclaiming "We can do it!" symbolized women recruited to fill critical jobs in the defense industry. Like their sisters in the military, women working in civilian jobs experienced learning new skills, earning their own wages and a sense of belonging to a valued team. But they also experienced discrimination as factory owners reclassified these jobs as lower-paying "female" jobs. Many women became acti -
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Earnest Hemingway
Hemingway had begun work on For Whom The Bell Tolls in 1939 in Cuba and worked on it on the road as he traveled back to Key West or to Wyoming or to Sun Valley, finishing it in July of 1940. The book was a huge success, both critically and commercially, prompting Sinclair Lewis to write that it was "the American book published during the three years past which was most likely to survive, to be know fifty years from now, or possibly a hundred...it might just possibly be a masterpiece, a classic.. -
The Native Son is Published By Richard Wright
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the Naval Expansion Act
On the same day Paris fell to the German army and Auschwitz received its first Polish prisoners, the Naval Expansion Act is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, increasing the capacity of the U.S. Navy by 11%. Four days earlier, Roosevelt had condemned the actions of Italy's declaration of war against France and the United Kingdom. -
FDR elected to record 3rd time in office
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Ho Chi Minh Founds the Communist Viet Minh in Vietnam
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Nazis Begin Killing Adults and Children With Mental and Physical Disabilities as Part of Their Aktion T-4 Program
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Enigma Cryptography Machine Captured
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Frozen foods popularized
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Eudors Welty
Yaddo
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Earnest hemingway
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citizen cane
•Orson Welles directed the groundbreaking film, Citizen Kane, in 1941 -
Captain America first published
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Wonder Woman
In 1941, psychologist and feminist Dr. William Moulton Marston was hired by the creators of DC Comics to create a feminine superhero. Wonder Woman made her debut in late 1941 bringing a new vision of femininity that incorporated strength, intelligence, patriotism and beauty with a dash of Greek mythology. From the very beginning Wonder Woman was a feminist, encouraging girls to believe that with sufficient determination and hard work, a woman could be as successful as a man. She was an immediate -
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
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warsaw ghettos rise
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Japanese-Americans Held in Camps
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Manhattan Project Begins
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Spindle cottonpicker produced commercially
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Penicillin
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Earnest Hemmingway
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chart topping songs
Somebody Else is Taking My Place" rose to number 11 on the charts in 1942. In this version of the song, Peggy Lee joins the Benny Goodman band for the first time -
gold record
RCA Victor sprays gold on a recording of Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo for having sold more than 1 million copies -- the first "Gold" record. -
draft age
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wemon get to fight in the war
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Executive order 9066
February 19, 1942 - Executive order 9066 is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, confining 110,000 Japanese Americans, including 75,000 citizens, on the West Coast into relocation camps during World War II. The remains of the first of these detention camps resides in California's Manzanar National Historic Site. These camps would last for three years -
Ann frank goes into hiding
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Fall of Mussolini
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Aqualung
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Warsaw
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D-Day
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During the 2nd World War, wage and price controls are placed on American employers. To compete for workers, companies begin to offer health benefits, giving rise to the employer-based system in place today.
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President Roosevelt asks Congress for "economic bill of rights," including right to adequate medical care.
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The historic high for unemployment was 21.2 percent during the Great Depression; the historic low was 1.2 percent in 1944, during World War II.
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D-Day
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horse race ban
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Roosevelt's 4th Term
President Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term in the United States, becoming the only person to ever do so. His fourth term does not last long however, as he died during the next year in April of 1945 -
ghandi
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poland
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GI Bill of Rights,
In 1944, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, known as the GI Bill of Rights, was signed into law. The act allocated $13 billion to help soldiers returning home pay for higher education, vocational training, medical treatment, unemployment insurance, and loans for building new houses. Social Security benefits also helped Veterans transition into the commercial sector. Pent up demand for consumer goods, caused by years of wartime self-deprivation, also fueled the economy. -
Eudora Welty
New York Times Book Review
For the summer, Welty works for Robert Van Gelder at The New York Times Book Review writing reviews of books on the war under pseudonym "Michael Ravenna." She continues writing reviews when she returns to Jackson. -
Oxford shoes
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Everyday fashion
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Decapitated Rooster Named Mike Lives for 18 Months
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Division of Korea Into North and South
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First Atomic Bomb Tested
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First Computer Built (ENIAC
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Microwave Oven Invented
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Germans Surrender
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U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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42 labor-hours required to produce 100 pounds (2/5 acre) of lint cotton
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Tupperware
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Earnest Hemingway
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Richard Wright
Richard's autobiograhy is published. He first calls it American Hunger but later changes the name to Black Boy. -
2 Communist Governments exist
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Germans surrender
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WW2 ends in japan
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End of WWII and the Soviet Bloc
At the end of WWII, a region starting with East Berlin, Germany and extending east towards the Soviet Union becomes known as the "Soviet Bloc". Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, North Korea and Czechoslovakia are all considered official Communist governments, and under Soviet influence. -
Holiday Movie It's a Wonderful Life Premiers
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•Jews Are Massacred in the Post-Holocaust Kielce Pogrom in Poland
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post war boom!
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Atomic Energy Act of 1946: US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Created
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Eudora Welty
San Francisco
Welty travels in November to San Francisco for a stay that stretches to four months. While there, she writes "Music from Spain," sees a lot of John Fraiser Robinson, and makes new friends including Art and Antonette Fereva Foff, also clients of Diarmurd Russell -
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Baby Boom
During the 1940s, particularly in the time after the end of World War II, the population saw an increase of 19 million. -
BBC back on air
The BBC resumes regular television broadcasting after being off the air during World War II. -
Abstract Expressionism
Art critic Robert Coates coins the term “Abstract Expressionism” in an article related to the works of Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Armenian-born painter Arshile Gorky. -
First bikini
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Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered
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Jackie Robinson Joins the Dodgers, Becoming the First Black Baseball Player in the Major Leagues
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Earnest Hemingway
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hollywood communists
A Hollywood blacklist of alleged Communist sympathizers includes 300 writers, directors and actors -
Truman Doctrine introduced to Congress
President Harry S. Truman announces to Congress his plan to provide assistance to Greece, Turkey, and Italy to prevent the pending communist spread. -
"Cold War" begins
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State of Israel Founded
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The Bikini
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Gandhi Assassinated
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China Becomes Communist
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First Non-Stop Flight Around the World
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George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eight-Four
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Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb
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car cost $1600
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anual salary $3600
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Eudora Welty
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1984
In 1949, George Orwell wrote a classic novel about a dystopian future. The book was titled 1984 -
Eudora Welty
Publishes The golden apples, a book with a look at sexuality. some say it is early feminist works. Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. “I doubt that a better book about ‘the South’-one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life and its special tone and pattern-has ever been written” (New Yorker)
