Decade - 1940s

There was little if any, factual basis to stories about infiltration; a publicity seeking, somewhat paranoid, heavily drinking Senator, named Joe McCarthy set himself up as a "commie detector". He held long, baseless hearings in Congress, accused many, many people of being communists, with only the word of others paid to "speak out", or in some cases, on no more basis than that a relative of the accused, originally came from the USSR. Some of his accusations were made on the basis of no evidence at all.

After ruining many lives, McCarthy was finally disgraced after bizarre allegations against US Army personnel. One of his cadre, Roy Cohn, was particularly brutal, sometimes blackmailing the innocent into sex acts to avoid exposure. Some choose suicide over the disgrace the powerful McCarthy arbitrarily meted out*.

At the end, one brave US Army attorney, Joseph N. Welch, had the courage to stand up for America and denounce the crew of liars. Eisenhower also began to move toward an end to the McCarthy witch hunt.

McCarthy died, drunk, and stripped of power, after losing his iron fist, and one of the darkest periods in 20th century US history came to an end.

*One US soldier, after his parents had been "revealed" by the McCarthyites as having read a Russian language newspaper, took his own life. Several books and movies have been released, detailing the horrors of the McCarthy years.

* The lived under very poor living conditions. Most got paid 15-25 cents an hour which is only $5 a day! *

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One advancement in science that happened during the 1940's was the first use of penicillin. Another was the first synthesis of plutonium by a team led by Glenn T. Seaborg and Edwin McMillan at the University of California.

It depends where you're talking about. In America, things were okay on the mainland.

A 1940 Chevrolet sold for $700 to $900 dollars depending on the model and accessories.

Mostly some kind of uniform. If in 'civvies' pants were wide and turned up an inch at bottom, jackets had short wide lapels. Shoes were sturdy.

World war 2 lol

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POST, in this case, refers to "something that occurs immediately AFTER something happens--such as post war--and remains such unless it occurs again.

ANTE means "before"--such as antebellum, referred to the era before the Civil War; anteroom--a room at the front of a house that leads to other rooms, or a waiting room (like in a clinic or hospital).PRE also means before, such as the "preface" of a book means the pages that come before chapter 1.

i am black and i was no way near the 40's or thought of. i was born in 1995,but i am sure black people were more respectful and nicer back in those days. they weren't having 10 or 9 kids,sleeping with 10 baby mamas,laying on their butt watching football or thuggin and hustlin'. black people were really charming but i guess years and years have changed. white people actually,not ALL,or MAJORITY but some and alot in different states were really stuck and surrounded by negativity and racism and it has been going on for 400 years. still hasn't stopped. its still being taught and to say all white people are not the same and are not fully full filled racist,ignorrance is talking to them not their mouths. white people have asians,latinas,Koreans and Mexicans on their side so it must be really bad now u,but i don't know what the Mexican's problem is.....i love them and all i live next door to a Mexican family so i can't afford to be racist like that. never had,never imaged myself next to one and never will.

living condiations were like how peolpe could not live without their homes cause they have lost it by the ww2 and it was haertbroken to people to see their homes being trashed just all by the war and they didnt know what to do.

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Well, there was of course the Nazis (Germans), there was also Italy, Japan and various other countries in eastern Europe.
The Italians - although there was a little opposition to the alignment at times. Also, the Japanese. Hitler had a non-aggresion pact with Russia at the beginning of the war that he later reneged on.

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WWII. Hitler commits suicide. Pearl Harbor. D-Day. V-E Day. V-J Day. Baby Boom. FDR dies. Truman becomes President. A-bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Israel becomes country. U.N formed.

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Following the outbreak of World_War_Iin 1914, the German_Empirearmy opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourgand Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the First_Battle_of_the_Marne. Both sides then dug in along a meandering line of fortified Trench_warfare, stretching from the North_Seato the Switzerlandfrontier with France. This line remained essentially unchanged for most of the war.

Dusty-Springfield style beehives were popular, and the styles were bright as people cheered themselves up after war. I am looking for more information on this subject, please give what you can.

I think the most important event of the 1940's was world war 2. On December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor Hawaii which pushed America into the war. In August of 1945 President Truman ordered the 2 atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs devastated Japan and forced them to end the war between the United States and Japan. After the war the "Marshall plan" was implemented for the rebuilding of Europe.

Ford with Chevrolet close behind.

yes there was a lot of sandals in the 1940s

Mens' and women's fashions in the US and Europe were somewhat influenced by military dress throughout the 1940's. Many more women entered the workforce in the 1940's and suits became more common for them.

Women's dresses and skirts went just below the knee, and women wore pants more often than in previous decades. Denim jeans and gingham shirts or tight sweaters were fashionable for women's casual wear.

Fashion in menswear changes more gradually than women's. Denim jeans became an item for casual wear, not just for work or children. For casual wear, gabardine shirts and jackets made from DuPont Rayon were introduced, sometimes blended with wool.

Women's dress wear included suits with padded shoulders form fitting skirts and platform open-toed shoes. Men's suit coats were often double breasted with long and wide lapels and shoulder pads. Suit pants were usually pleated with cuffs, high waistlines and somewhat baggy, with more fabric than today's fashions. Ties were short and wide, often printed with abstract geometric or floral designs. Wing-tip shoes and fedora hats were common dress wear accessories,

Bermuda shorts for men and culottes for women became more common for casual wear for adults in summer. Sandals for men and women became more common. Hawaiian shirts became more common for men, perhaps influenced by the US presence in the south Pacific.

Solid colors predominated. Charcoal, olive green, brown and navy blue for men's and women's suits. Likewise for shirts and blouses. A dress shirt for a man meant white starched cotton.

Generally speaking, people dressed better in past decades than they do now. The clothing itself was of a much better quality, and people kept their clothing longer.

A $32 J.C. Penny off-the-rack men's wool suit from 1946 would cost over $1200 in today's money. The material alone would cost over $700 and would be the finest, top-shelf Italian wool. Materials were thicker and heavier and kept their shape.

Perhaps much, perhaps not enough. I once heard a postwar quote from General Omar Bradley saying that we live in an age of nuclear giants and mental infants. We know more about killing than we do about living. Attack before they do (haha, sarcastic) But actually, we learned not to ignore threats like we ignored Hitler for almost a decade of his breaking truces and agreements. Nowadays, there's no way we'll ignore crazy dictators breaking international law, like building illegal WMD's or aiding terrorists. We also learned how to improve explosive devices like hand grenade, learned to combine the rifle and the sub-machine gun into the modern assault rifle, and learned how to improve various fields of aviation, especially fuel effeciency, range, manuverability (did i spell that right) and the use of jet engines. Most of all, we discoverd/invented atomic energy, which (thank god) we have used only for peace since 1945 (no thanks to USSR!)