1. A Separate Peace: Gene’s Electronic Time Capsule
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Save money and gas by joining a car club.
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3. American propaganda poster urls
We can do it: design-us-retro-posters-122.aspx Uncle Sam: Car sharing club: propaganda-poster/ Japanese war bonds: Nazi shadow war bonds: Puzzle piece: p3/baker_p3_12-01_js/index.htm

4. Gene’s Clothing Custom made Ivy League suit to where to school.
Men’s combo swing suit.
Popular G.I. shoes

5. Popular 1940’s movies
Pinocchio (released in 1940)
The 1940s were a great time to go to the movies because so many of them were being made and here are a few.
Casablanca
(released in 1942)
The Grapes of Wrath
(released in 1940)
Destination Tokyo
(released January 1944)
During the 1940s Walt Disney’s career began to prosper with Fantasia in 1940, Dumbo in 1941, and Bambi in 1942.
Mrs. Miniver was the biggest hit film of the year (released 1942)

6. Popular 1940s actor/actresses
The forties were a very big time movies (as seen in the last slide), same as for actors and actresses.
Elizabeth Taylor
Ginger Roberts
Possibly the most famous actress from the 1940s: Marilyn Monroe.
Autographed photo of Jimmy Stewart.
Other famous actors and actresses include Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, and Hattie McDaniel.

7. POPULAR 194O’S SINGERS
Music in the 1940s consisted of a lot of jazz and big band styles. Some of the artists who helped to create this musical era are pictured be low, and also Bing Crosby, Glenn Miller, Cliff Edwards, Frank Sinatra, and many more.
Popular scat jazz singer as “The man in the zoot suit with the reet pleats” because he brought around a whole new slang language: the 1940s Shakespeare.
Dizzy Gillespie was known for his puffy cheeks.

8. Popular 1940’s Songs
Obviously there are hundreds of songs made during the 1940s, but here are six of some of the most popular back then.
In the Mood – Glenn Miller
When You Wish Upon a Star – Cliff Edwards
I’ll never smile again – Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra
Only Forever – Bing Crosby
Body & Soul – Coleman Hawkins
When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano – The Ink Spots

9. Popular 1940’s authors and books
Gwendolyn Brooks
F. Scott Fitzgerlad
John Steinbeck
Richard Wright
Carl Carmer
Ernest Hemingway
Carson McCullers
Raymond Chandler
William Faulkner
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald

10. The draft
Reintroduced in WW 1, the Selective Service Act of 1917 forced all men from the ages of to draft.
Act was redone as the Selective Training and Service Act (STSA) of 1940
Pres. Roosevelt’s signing began the 1st peacetime draft in the US
No more than 900,000 men to be in training at one time
Men ages 18 – 45 liable for military service
Required men 18 – 65 to register
Walter Olsang’s draft card; registered in the Old Man’s Draft of

11. The Draft (continued) Limited service to 18 months
Between 1940 and 1947 over 10 million men were inducted
1947 the Act was expired by Congress
Replaced by a new act in 1948
1948 act said that all males had to register
Men from liable for induction for 21 months service followed by 5 years of reserve duty

12. World War 2: pacific battles
One of the most important pacific battle was the Battle of Midway. In the battle of Midway:
Japanese lost four aircraft carries and their best pilots
We only lost one carrier
First major American naval victory of WW2
Some say that the Battle of Britain turned the war because if they had lost the n the war would have been over considering that Hitler would’ve controled all of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
The Battle of Coral Sea was a clash between carrier task forces:
May 7-8, 1942
Not one shot was traded
Heaviest losses were the U.S. carrier Lexington and the Japanese carrier Shoho
Japan withdrew

13. World Leaders: FDR
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933 – 1945) Helped America out of The Great Depression At first followed a vast political opinion to remain neutral Began to ally with Britain and Russia before actually entering the war Pearl Harbor entered war Knew before Pearl Harbor that they would eventually have to enter the war Death in April 1945, briskly followed by the end of the war

14. World Leaders: Harry Truman, Adolf Hitler
Harry S. Truman became the 33rd U.S. President after Roosevelt’s death Became Pres. 83 days after V.P. Gave the ‘OK’ to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bomb ended WW II Known for straightforward and blunt attitude Adolf Hitler was the Nazi dictator of Germany from 1933 – 1945 Solider in WW1 Read“ The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", which is a fake document supporting anti-semitism. This sparked his hatred of Jews Planned and began World War II Prime minister of Germany 30 January, 1944 Committed suicide at the end of the war

15. World leaders: Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain May 10, 1940 Same day as when the German Blitzkrieg invasion of France began ‘The British Lion’ – excellent wartime leader Formed a strong friendship with U.S.
“I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, ‘Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength’.”
From his speech on May 13th, 1940 when he became Prime Minister

16. 1940 Medical discoveries
1940: Howard Florey and Ernst Chain make a usable form of penicillin
1944: Selman Waksman discovers steptomycin
1945: First vaccine for the flu
1947: Parke-Davis announces discover of antibiotic Chloromycetin
1949: Sir Harold Ridley preformed the first implant of intraocular lens
1950: John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker
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1940s: Experts realized that smoking and mental ingestion were likely causes for cancer.

17. New inventions 1940: Nylons go on the market
1941: The Jeep was invented
1942: T shirts were introduced
1944: Ballpoint Pens go on sale
1945: 1st Computer built (ENIAC)
1945: Microwave Oven Invention
The 1940 Willys “Quad” is said to be the granddaddy of all jeeps.
The first ENIAC computer.

18. New Inventions (continued)
1945: Slinky Toys go on sale
1946: Bikinis introduced
1947: Polaroid Cameras invented
1948: ‘Big Bang’ Theory Formulated
1948: The Frisbee

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