1. Pictures from the 1940s and 1950s
By: Kunal Lobo, Matt Rollings, and Cody Hopkins

2. Pictures From Our Attic

3. Iwo Jima This picture was taken during World War II.
It was taken in Iwo Jima in February of 1945.

4. Return From War This was a picture of the return from the war.
This happened on August 14, 1945.
The men that returned from the war kissed the first women that they saw.

5. Baseball
On the right is Hank Greenberg. He played for the Detroit Tigers.
The Red Sox player are Ted Williams and Eddie Pellagrini.
They are posing with JFK in April of 1946

6. Television
This picture was taken in the 1950s, it was the arrival of the new, larger televisions, up from the original three inch screens.

7. Marilyn Monroe
This is Marilyn Monroe, she was an actress, and a model.
Unfortunately she died of an over dose of sleeping pills.

8. Literature Cat and the Hat- Dr. Suess Charlotte’s Web- E.B. White
Stewart Little- E.B. White
The Catcher and the Rye- J.D. Salinger
James Bond: Casino Royale- Ian Fleming
Lord of the Rings- J. R. R. Tolkein
On the Road- Jack Keroiac

9. Music Doo- wap “Bubble gum” music Rock n’ Roll (Elvis)
“He’s got the Whole World in His Hands”- Laurie London
“Great Ball of Fire”- Jerry Lee Lewis

10. Breakthroughs and Inventions
Mr. Potato Head
Watson and Crick discovered the double helix of DNA.
The television remote (followed by the wireless remote
The answering machine
Saran Wrap
Cure for Polio
Liquid paper
Rayon
HIV/AIDS
Lithium
Bacteria
Contraceptive Pill

11. Events(wars) World war II ended in 1945 Nazi surrender in 1945
D- day 1944
Cold War- after 1945
Korean war- 1950

12. More Events Alaska and Hawaii became states in 1959.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mt. Everest in 1953.
John XXIII became pope.
1948 was the first Olympic games since Hitler’s Nazi propaganda.