Decade - 1940s

Many actors and producers where used by the Army to make films for both training aides, for raising war bonds, and for propagander. So in a sense, they did did have an impact on the war. Also, many actors in Hollywood volunteered at local canteens to entertain troops. There was a movie made about this in 1944 called "Hollywood Canteen". They also helped cheer up injured troops. Some actors and singers toured the troops over at the front lines.

Hawaiians say Aloha which means both hello and goodbye. aloha

The Yellow Star of David. The gay community was required to wear pink triangles and the communist red triangles.

The reciprocity treaty in 1854 was a free trade agreement between British North America and the United States. The treaty allowed the Americans to fish in British North American water and there was little to no importation taxes for goods. The government of the United States abolished the treaty in 1865

"Mr. Dussel" was Annes sarcastic pseudonym for Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and jaw surgeon whom the Franks and van Pels took into hiding about four months after they "disappeared". Pfeffer was very pedantic, stubborn and impatient with young people - he and Anne were constantly at odds. That is why Anne gave him the pseudonym "Dussel", which is German slang for a "jerk".

There were considerable units around Crowborough, Sussex., I was based at one camp West Camp Crowborough 1952-55 that had been a Canadian base in 1943-44. There were still assault courses and equipment there in 1952.

Well, WW 2 was not in 1915, but your Luger pistol may be worth anywhere from $100 to several thousand dollars, depending on the exact model, markings, and condition. There is no way to judge from the information in your question. The best estimate would come from a dealer that knows Luger pistols. If all else fails, see if the are some gun shows in your area- you should find several dealers that can give you an estimate of worth.

If you are refering to the small banner type flags that hung in windows of the 1940's, it was a sign that a service member was killed in action. If the star (one star for each family member in the service) was blue, it referred to that sevice.

The USA contributed more money and equipment to fighting the Axis than any other nation. Without USA equipment and monetary assistance; England and Russia would have been defeated as France was.

In middle class America, dating in the 1940s was a much more formal activity than it is today, with very strict rules. Boys asked girls out on dates, or telephoned them just to chat, and boys paid for the dates, never the other way around. Dates at the malt shop or drugstore soda fountain, drive-in movie, or school dance were typical of this era. Sexual desires were as powerful then as they have ever been, but ruining one's reputation (the girl's), and the scandal and shame unwanted pregnancy would bring kept many a yearning in check. In a rather prudish society, baseball-oriented slang for sexual activity came about in the post-war years. "First base" means French kissing, "Second base" refers to fondling or kissing of breasts or genetalia, clothed or unclothed. "Third base" means oral sex, and "Home base" is intercourse. "Nice" girls didn't "put out," i.e., do any of these things, therefore their boyfriends "struck out."

The code of conduct was unwritten, because sex education was not taught in most schools, and the topic of sex was too embarrassing or awkward for many parents to discuss with their children. In all likelihood, no one had taught them either, so kids learned from each other, spreading misinformation and old wives' tales. Condoms were the only birth control method that was readily available, but in the hands of inexperienced and nervous boys, the failure rate was high.

Watching movies made in or depicting the 1940s, or leafing through magazines or scrolling through retro websites can bring about a wave of nostalgia, even for people born long after the period. The clothes look fun, the dating activities seem fun, and the times seem so innocent. For many people they were. Society was much more modest and restrained; discussions of sex were inappropriate everywhere except a doctor's office, and maybe not even there. Maintaining a good reputation and respectability was important to both boys and girls, which is one reason millions of couples in the late 1940s got married right out of high school. The children they began having shortly thereafter were members of the Baby Boom, one of the largest population expansions in modern history.

The status in the early 1940s were horrible because America was just coming out of the great Depression, but as World War II went along the economy grew better and better, so, by the time WWII was over, America's economy was pretty much all good.

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'Enola Gay' was the name of the B-29 Superfortress which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. The pilot of 'Enola Gay', Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., named the aircraft after his mother.

President Franklin Roosevelt made many accomplishments. The greatest accomplishment President Roosevelt made was giving Americans optimism during the years of the Great Depression.

Terribly, Women were seen a sex tools for the man. They had horrible lives.

Almost all the men and boys went to war. Women took over the homefront, working as truckers, machinists, riveters, farm workers, ,aircraft builders and many other jobs. Food was rationed and not much was around. Americans and Canadians appeared all over Britain, hundreds of airfields and thousands of aircraft suddenly appeared.

Franco did not "fight" for either side. Spain had just come out of a brutal Civil War from 1936-1939. However, as Franco had been helped in that war by the Nazi Regime and Fascist Italy, Franco felt an affinity for those countries and had good personal relations with those leaders. Hitler tried to encourage Franco to join the war on the Axis side and by 1942, Franco was strongly considering entry. However, the Allied victories in El Alamein and Stalingrad in 1943 showed that the tide was reversing. Allied governments sent a message to Franco that if he remained neutral, his country would not be invaded and he would not be deposed from power. As a result, he chose not to enter the war and was bypassed by the Allied Liberation in Western Europe.

The Public Works Administration was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933. It was created to spend large sums of money on big public works. The Act budgeted billions of dollars on public works construction thus providing employment to a large number of the unemployed, improve the public welfare, and contribute to stabilizing the economy and reviving American industry. It was first suggested by the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins and approved by such New Dealers as Harold Ickes, James Farley, and Henry Wallace. FDR agreed to include the PWA as part of the New Deal measures but he demanded that the initial cost of the PWA be scaled back. It was never a success. It spent over $6 billion but did very little to jump-start the economy and it did not significantly reduce the unemployment rate. When the economy turned to wartime production in 1941, the PWA was abandoned.

Wild Bill Hitchcock is a famous Wild West Gunslinger. His death is known for the aces and eights 'dead man's hand' in poker which he had when he was killed in Deadwood South Dakota. http://www.abacom.com/~jkrause/hickok.html http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWhickok.htm http://www.deadwood.org/AboutDeadwood/History/?utm_source=GooglePPC&utm_medium=PPC&utm_content=OldWest&utm_campaign=BHDS2008

Go here - http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm FYI - $11.60 today

This stamp is a common US commemorative stamp.

Mint US stamps are worth their face value to use as postage, so you can use yours that way, if you need postage.

Otherwise, your stamp has negligible value ( less than 25 cents retail) , but please do not throw it away!

Keep it in your stamp collection for your children or yourself when you have more time. If you have more than

one, you may be able to trade it for stamps of similar value. .

Or give it to a collector friend. Collectors always appreciate the thought even if they do not need the stamp.

8-9 November 1923 the beer hall putsch or Munich Putsch Two days after the putsch, Hitler was arrested and charged with high treason he obviously wasnt hanged while in jail he wrote "mein kampf" (my struggle) however he was also in September 1921, he and some SA had disrupted a meeting of the Bayernbund, and the Nazis who had gone there to cause trouble were arrested as a result. Hitler had ended up serving a little over a month of a three-month jail sentence