Decade - 1940s

They were the "Wind Talkers". They worked in communications in the Pacific. Because they used their native language, the Japanese could not break their code as they did with our other codes.

Yes, machine guns were used in WW2.

George Murdock examined hundreds of different cultures in the 1940s to identify common traits and social institutions across human societies. His goal was to understand the basic elements of culture and how they varied across different societies, in order to formulate comparative analyses and generalizations about human behavior and social organization.

when he thought he was in india he was actually in North America

the fear that communists outside and inside America were working to destroy American life

lend/lease

The Treaty of Versailles, It Punished Germany by making them take the blame for WWI, Pay for all Collateral Damage, and severely reduced their army. This treaty is also contributes to the start of WWII

It is easier to count the kinds of businesses and activities affected by segregation than to come up with a numerical figure which may be wildly off the mark. Virtually every public business, activity and mode of transportation was divided by racial segregation in the 1940s. Legal separation of blacks and whites was the law of the land -- almost exclusively in the former Confederate states in the US -- from 1896 - 1954. The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson established the "separate but equal" doctrine in 1896, which segregated schools, hospitals, public transportation, restaurants, nightclubs, hotels, motels and housing. There were separate restrooms, entrances and water fountains when it was not practical to build separate facilities.

In addition to the more widely applied "separate but equal" laws were the Jim Crow Laws, which applied to state and local laws, and were enforced as part of a rigid social code. They covered marriages, affected banking, job discrimination, and businesses such as beauty parlors, which required their employees to be licensed by the state. The Jim Crow era extended from 1878 - 1965.

The Supreme Court struck down "separate but equal" in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, arguing that "separate was inherently unequal" in schools. Black schools received less funding, outdated textbooks and obsolete equipment in comparison to their white counterparts. Brown v. Board, as it is colloquially known, was the first in a cascade of legislation that would lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. There would still be more legislation to come, all of which would eventually assure that the rights of citizenship as defined in the 14th Amendment would apply to all.

Kilroy was a comfort to GI's suffering through a world gone mad. Kilroy was Here was proof that someone was there before them and survived. If Kilroy wasn't found there, it was left for the next GI.

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As an example, Oldsmobile produced its last car on 2/5/1942 and resumed production on 10/15/1945.

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt used his State of the Union Address in January, 1941 to outline the Four Freedoms he believed people the world over were entitled to and ought to enjoy. The freedoms were: (1) Freedom of speech (2) Freedom of worship (3) Freedom from want (4) Freedom from fear. By the end of the year, on December 7, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor. On December 8, Roosevelt asked Congress for a Declaration of War on Japan, which was voted upon and passed immediately, thereby officially entering the US in World War II.

It was the spread of repressive political ideologies that ruled the Axis Powers -- Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan -- that the US and its allies were most determined to stop. These regimes ran under principles that were the exact opposites of the Four Freedoms. All were ruled by doctrines that punished, imprisoned or put to death those who practiced freedom of speech and worship. People under such tyrannical rule wanted for everything -- liberty, food, clothing, safety, hope -- and, they remained in constant fear of violating one of the many unwritten rules of such societies and being punished or put to death.

Had the Axis Powers won World War II, they would have attempted to rule their conquests as they did their own people, through fear, intimidation and deprivation. In many nations where the people had once enjoyed the Four Freedoms, they would have them no longer. This was a very real fear, and strong motivator for the Allies, throughout much of the war.

George Murdock was an anthropologist and professor at Yale University who developed a method to systematically collect organize ethnographic data. This system evolved into what is now known as Yale's Human Relations Area Files.

Marie Lombardi

Crown Lynn was established in 1854, but only started making mugs and kitchen ware in 1940.

There was no much technology is 1949. TV (Black and White) existed but there was not much else.

US, Russia, and Great Britain, along with France, China, Poland, were the allies. axis were the germany, japan, and italy

Nations allied to the US during WW II were England, France, Russia, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.

June 6, 1944 was the day of D-Day or Operation Overlord, the British and American invasion of France at the beaches of Normandy. Led by US General Dwight D. Eisenhower, it was a success, and the troops landed at five beaches (Omaha, Sword, Gold, Utah, Juno) to eventually recapture all of France from Hitler's Germany.

Yes, they could

It had cannons through the windows

The B52 bomber did not make it's first flight until 1952, so there was no B52 made during WWII.

The development and use of the microchip, leading to computers and cell phones.

World World War II engaged the globe from 1939 to 1945, The seeds for this war were planted following the surrender of Germany at the end of World War I and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Because Hitler wanted domination of the whole of Europe, and Japan wanted domination of the entire Pacific area.