Decade - 1940s

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

The vast majority of people would have been peasants/serfs so they would have got very little pay, and as such had very little disposable income. In towns you would have got some free-men who were able to work for their own money.

There wasn't that much difference in the jobs people did since pre-roman times right until the beginnings of the agricultural revolution. Most people would have been involved in to gathering /production of raw materials (like food) although there was a surprising amount of labour intensive industries, the major one probably being the textile trade, so growing flax (for linen) or keeping sheep was very important.

To help support people/industries there would have been potteries, and foundries (purify/process ores to make metals. the metal for swords and horseshoes came from somewhere!). It was found recently that Saxon metalworking was about the same quality/quantity as that of 16 C England. Many of the metal extraction/processing sites would have been in fairly inhospitable places like the Pennines/Wales/Lake District. MOST of these sites would have been small, and today there's usually very little physical evidence of them being there.

Stone would also have been extracted by quarry men. Stone masons would have been needed to dress/finish the stone.

In areas where there were thatched cottages (majority of places, stone simply being too costly for the common man) you would have got thatchers.

Most jobs were highly specialised, and covered a tiny part of what there modern equivalents are. There would have been "jobs" only for highly skilled people - such as bakers, leatherworkers, blacksmiths, carpenters, armorers, bowyers, fletchers, swordsmiths, shieldwrights, wainwrights, cobblers, weavers, millers, priests, tax collectors, and probably some manner of fortune tellers/sages. We can also include the minstrels or trubadours who got paid by telling stories with the use of music. Very few jack of all trades.

The exceptions would have been the growing of food (most people would have had a strip of land for growing the majority of their food, with little surplus), and blacksmiths or farriers(a blacksmith who concentrates on "stuff" for horses)

Carters or porters would have been the lorry drivers of the time.

Coastal regions might have had some fishing boats, and in larger ports, merchants..

A few people would be able to work as tutors to the children of the rich and powerful.

The American Housing Act of 1949 (Title V of P.L. 81-171) was a landmark, sweeping expansion of the federal role in mortgage insurance and issuance and the construction of public housing. It was part of Harry Truman's program of domestic legislation, the Fair Deal.

According to the census of 1931, London's metro region population was 4.4 million. (Source: http://www.histpop.org)

He came to power, he's more important in 1958 and in 1966,

In the 1920s, the Weimar Republic, an impoverished, weak and ineffectual government sat in Germany. Communism was rampant, and it's a small miracle that Germany did not end up as a communist state, instead of the Nazi regime. Hitler was narrowly elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and his NAZI party ruled Germany until the end of WW2 in 1945.

While it was called the "National Socialist German Workers' Party", it was lead by a military dictator, Adolf Hitler, who had unlimited power, and passed laws by his own decree, so the best description of the type of government it was would be totalitarian.

no she's not

too many people are selling their shares from companies so a lot of companies are going broke and more people are selling houses than people who are buying houses... it is difficult to get a job

Very slow, big, and hot. On the issue of speed a typical memory cycle took on the order of 100 microseconds although there were both faster and slower machines. On the issue of size and heat until about 1958 practically all computers used vacuum tubes, even the smallest vacuum tubes were at least 3/4 inch in diameter and a couple of inches tall and dissipated several watts of power keeping their cathodes red hot.

1918 saw the average raise rise to $875 per year. The average house cost $6,715 and the average car cost $360. Although it is difficult to find the price of a pint of milk, a gallon of milk cost around 55 cents in 1918.

The Americans had a total of 89,987 casualties. 19,276 dead, 23,554 captured or mising and 47,493 wounded. The British had 200 dead and 1,400 wounded or missing. The Germans suffered 84,834 casualties. 15,652 dead, 27,582 captured or missing and 41,600 wounded.

Not much. Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940-45 and then by Soviet Russia.

just after world war when hit la was killed

McCarthy lost power when the press criticized him

it proved to be an ineffective tool against communism

Someone born in 1941 would be 68 today and an infant born in the base hospital on Dec 6 would have to be considered a survivor. The 18-22 year old soldiers and sailors are now in their early 90s, so they will soon all be gone.

My great uncle is 91 & a Pearl Harbor survivor. But I don't know the total that are still living.

i think what you are wanting to know is how to get a hold of one, well good question i have no clue does any one no..?

declare a bank holiday that closes banks for days