1940
Franklin Roosevelt President
Henry Wallace Vice President
Churchill is Prime Minister
Gualle leads the Free French
Battle of Britian starts
1st Peacetime draft in effect
Japans Diplomatic code cracked
Germany defeats France
Charlie Chaplin popular
RH factor in blood discovered
First Blood Bank opens
40 hr. work weeks in effect
M&M's are made for GIs
Jeep was introduced
Color TV demonstrated
1st Turnpike opens
Bebop was introduced
Disney's Fantasia is released
Cave art found in France
Cincinnati Reds wins World Series
US population 131,669,275
1941
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
US in World War II
Food Rationing taking toll
Hitler invades the USSR
Bismark sinks
Atlantic Charter agreed on
Sad Sack appears in papers
Plutonium is isolated
Aerosol cans invented
Cherrios is introduced
Diesel Locomotives in service
Greta Garbo retires
Mt. Rushmore completed
NY Yankees win World Series
1942
1st T-Shirts manufactured
Frank Sanatra break record
Battle of Guadalcanal started
Casablanca hits movie screens
26 Nations sign Declaration
Japan attacks Singapore
The Battle of Midway
Glen Miller Band most popular
WAFs & WAVES established
US Troops invade S. Africa
Victory Gardens are cultivated
Last car off line till end of war
White Christmas released
Chaattanooga Choo Choo #1 song
Yankee Doodle Dandy debutes
St. Louis Cardinals win series
Day Light Savings introduced
1943
The Pentagon is completed
ABC is founded
Musical Oklahoma popular
Jitterbug is the craze
Helmets worn in Football
St. Louis Cardinals win series
Betty Grable pin-up poster craze
Kidney dialysis machine invented
1944
Roosvelt President 4th time
Harry Truman Vice President
GI Bill of Rights passed
DDT used for lice
Digital computer built
DNA is isolated
Iceland becomes a republic
D-Day landing in Normandy
Paris is liberated
Ozzie & Harriet debut
Padded shoulders are the craze
St. Louis Cardinal win series
1945
Big Three Conference occurs
Franklin Roosevelt dies
Truman sworn in as President
Germany Surrenders
White Sand NM has 1st Atomic test
US drops Atomic Bomb on Japan
WW II death toll 55,000,000
Pippi Longstocking introduced
Tito becames leader of Yugoslavia
Mussolini is killed
French De Gaulle elected President
Penicillin is marketed
Water Fluoridaion introduced
CARE is founded
Detroit Tigers win World Series
American Football League organized
Slinky introduced
1946
Bikini introduced in Paris
Timex is introduced
Spocks publishes baby book
UN has first session
Atomic Energy Commission formed
Cold War begins
Indian Claims Commission formed
Iron Curtain coined by Churchill
It's a Wonderful Life released
Tide hits markets
St. Louis Cardinals win series
Golfer Berg wins Woman's US Open
The Birth rate soars
Vespa scooters marketed
Philippines gain Independence
Heath Row Airport opens
Peron President of Argentina
1947
Financial aid offered to Europe
Priness Elizabeth marries
Instant Camera was developed
CIA was formed
UFO crash in New Mexico
Nuremberg Trails begin
Dead Sea Scrolls found
Jackie Robinson joins major league
Al Capone dies
Diary of Anne Frank published
Ford Foundation is established
1st transistor developed
AJAX is introduced
Polaroid Land Camera debutes
India becomes a Nations
Pakistan becomes a Nation
Yeager breaks sound barrier
World Series broadcasted
Howdy Doody hits the air
NY Yankees win World Series
1948
Harry Truman President
Alben Barkley Vice President
Gandhi assassinated
Communists take Eastern Europe
Selective Service becomes law
Human Rights list drawn up
Mt. Palomar Telescope dedicated
Long playing records introduced
Israel was proclaimed
Armed Forces intergraded
Dial deodorant soap introduced
First McDonald's opens
Paperback books are popular
Milton Berle debutes
Kukla, Fran and Ollie on screen
Scrabble game popular
Cleveland Indians win series
Flash cameras introduced
Hogan wins US Open
Pogo debuts
1949
NATO is established
China is a Communist republic
Mao, Chairman Peoples Republic
Silly Putty is introduced
NBA is formed
French Citroen car introduced
Coppi wins Tour de France
NY Yankees win World Series
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 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 and since then has been establishing himself as the next leader of the world. He blamed Trade Unions, Communists and all Jews for Germany's humilating in the Great War. He removed the Jewish rights and also defies the Treaty of Versailles. He started persecution of the Jews and occupied Czechoslovakia and Austria. In 1939 he invades Poland and World War II is feared. In 1940 Belguim surrendered to Germany as did France when the Germans launched an attack on both countries. Hilter wanted to invade Britian but called it off in September of 1940. In 1941 Hitler invades the USSR bringing them into the War. He also stormed Greece and took the islands. In 1942 the allies started pushing back the Germans. In 1942 England took El Alamein, the Soviets won the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Americans start bombing raids on German factories. In 1944 the Landing in Normandy, (D-Day), Paris is liberated from the Germans, and on May 8th, 1945 the was in Europe is over. Hilter shot himself in Berlin the next day and the Red Army took over Berlin.
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Winston Churchill becomes Britain's Prime Minister on 13 May 1940. The King called on Churchill to unite all the parties into on government after a collapse. He has always spoke against Hilter.
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 When France fell into German hands, General De Gualle escaped to England and with the support of the British government lead the "Free French". He declared, "Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not go out and it will not go out". In 1942 he changed the name of his resistance to the "Fighting French". These people specialized in sabotage, propaganda, and intelligence work. They worked secretly and with risk of arrest if detected. Paris was liberated in 1944 when the Resistance rose against the Germans and took their city's stongpoints.
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Pearl Habor Attack by Japanese
On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese lead by Chuichi Nagumo, attacked Pearl Habor by surprise, where 19 warships are out of commission and 4 battleships are sunk, 188 aircraft are destroyed, 159 damaged and 2,403 people were killed. The Japanese also attack US possessions, Guam, Philippines and the Marianas Islands. Japan has been trying to invade China since 1937 and has wanted to take over all of Southeast Asia. President Roosevelt declares war on Japan on December 8th at 5:10 p.m., and addressing the nation wearing a black arm band in memory of those that parished. The United States has now been pulled into World War II.
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 On the 1st of November 1941, Mount Rushmore unveiled the completion of the Presidents. Carved out in the BlackHills Mountains in South Dakota the Presidents stand 60 feet high. On the side of the mountain you will find the busts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Gutzon Borglum took 15 years to almost complete this project, but died in the spring of 41 and his son Lincoln completed the dream.
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Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were the leading figures in Jazz and started the BeBop craze. The name is derived from the sound of the music and call it modern jazz.
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Japan surrenders unconditionally after the US drops the Atom bombs on Hiroshima killing 78,000 and wiping out the city and on Nagasaki. Nagasaki was bombed only because the other city was under clouds at the time. A third bomb was to be dropped by because of the the Japanese were going to surrender, and the President didn't want to kill anymore people.
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 The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 near the Dead Sea in Palestine. These leather and papyrus scrolls belonged to the Essenes, a Jewish religious sect that was based near Qumran from about 150 B.C. to A.D. 68 and contain rules for the Essene Community and versions of books from the Old Testament of the Bible.
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 Eleanor Roosevelt help draw up the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" for the General Assemble of the United Nations to review. One 10 December, 1948 the General Assemble agreed a list of individual rights should be accepted all over the world. In the Declaration all people should have the rights to life and freedom, to equal protection under the law, and to own property. They should be allowed to meet peacefully with others, to express opinions freely, follow a religion, has a right to work, to receive equal pay for equal work, and to join trade unions. All countries in the United Nations voted to approve the declaration with the exception to those countries dominated by the Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
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 President Roosevelt died on April 12th, 1945 and Harry S. Truman was sworn into the Office of the President. During the next Presidential election in 1948, Truman's apponent Thomas Dewey was suppose to win by a landslide, but many newspapers were embarrassed at their headlines the next morning, when Truman was still the President of the United States. Truman laughed as he held up the Chicago Daily Tribune with the headlines reading, "Dewey Defeats Truman".
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