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"I have found in the Negro worker the real symbol of the working class in America."
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Richard's book named Uncle Tom's Children is published by Harper and Brothers. No exact date.
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Women were crucial to the war effort in the factories, as well. The image of Rosie the Riveter proclaiming "We can do it!" symbolized women recruited to fill critical jobs in the defense industry. Like their sisters in the military, women working in civilian jobs experienced learning new skills, earning their own wages and a sense of belonging to a valued team. But they also experienced discrimination as factory owners reclassified these jobs as lower-paying "female" jobs. Many women became acti
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Hemingway had begun work on For Whom The Bell Tolls in 1939 in Cuba and worked on it on the road as he traveled back to Key West or to Wyoming or to Sun Valley, finishing it in July of 1940. The book was a huge success, both critically and commercially, prompting Sinclair Lewis to write that it was "the American book published during the three years past which was most likely to survive, to be know fifty years from now, or possibly a hundred...it might just possibly be a masterpiece, a classic..
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On the same day Paris fell to the German army and Auschwitz received its first Polish prisoners, the Naval Expansion Act is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, increasing the capacity of the U.S. Navy by 11%. Four days earlier, Roosevelt had condemned the actions of Italy's declaration of war against France and the United Kingdom.
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The last true leftist is elected to a 3rd presidential term.
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•Orson Welles directed the groundbreaking film, Citizen Kane, in 1941
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•Marvel Comics introduces Captain America in March 1941
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In 1941, psychologist and feminist Dr. William Moulton Marston was hired by the creators of DC Comics to create a feminine superhero. Wonder Woman made her debut in late 1941 bringing a new vision of femininity that incorporated strength, intelligence, patriotism and beauty with a dash of Greek mythology. From the very beginning Wonder Woman was a feminist, encouraging girls to believe that with sufficient determination and hard work, a woman could be as successful as a man. She was an immediate
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Publishes "Men At War"
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Somebody Else is Taking My Place" rose to number 11 on the charts in 1942. In this version of the song, Peggy Lee joins the Benny Goodman band for the first time
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RCA Victor sprays gold on a recording of Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Choo Choo for having sold more than 1 million copies -- the first "Gold" record.
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The draft age in the United States is lowered from 21 to 18
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February 19, 1942 - Executive order 9066 is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, confining 110,000 Japanese Americans, including 75,000 citizens, on the West Coast into relocation camps during World War II. The remains of the first of these detention camps resides in California's Manzanar National Historic Site. These camps would last for three years
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• The Pentagon building is completed
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Mussolini resigns from his position of power and Italy surrenders during World War II
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Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan invent the "Aqualung."
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An uprising takes place in the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto against the Nazis
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The D-Day invasion begins, with Allied forces seizing the Normandy coast from Nazi fighters.
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Horse racing is banned because of WWII.
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President Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term in the United States, becoming the only person to ever do so. His fourth term does not last long however, as he died during the next year in April of 1945
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Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison
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Poland is liberated from Nazi occupation by Soviet troops and the Polish Home Army
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In 1944, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, known as the GI Bill of Rights, was signed into law. The act allocated $13 billion to help soldiers returning home pay for higher education, vocational training, medical treatment, unemployment insurance, and loans for building new houses. Social Security benefits also helped Veterans transition into the commercial sector. Pent up demand for consumer goods, caused by years of wartime self-deprivation, also fueled the economy.
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New York Times Book Review
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Richard's autobiograhy is published. He first calls it American Hunger but later changes the name to Black Boy.
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At the time Harry S. Truman became president, there were only two official Communist goverments around the world- the Soviet Union and Mongolia.
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•German forces in Berlin surrender: The Battle of Berlin ended on May 2, 1945.
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•The end of World War II in Asia occurred on August 14/15, 1945, when Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers
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At the end of WWII, a region starting with East Berlin, Germany and extending east towards the Soviet Union becomes known as the "Soviet Bloc". Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, North Korea and Czechoslovakia are all considered official Communist governments, and under Soviet influence.
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San Francisco
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During the 1940s, particularly in the time after the end of World War II, the population saw an increase of 19 million.
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The BBC resumes regular television broadcasting after being off the air during World War II.
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Art critic Robert Coates coins the term “Abstract Expressionism” in an article related to the works of Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Armenian-born painter Arshile Gorky.
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Awarded Bronze matal for service in the world war 2
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A Hollywood blacklist of alleged Communist sympathizers includes 300 writers, directors and actors
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President Harry S. Truman announces to Congress his plan to provide assistance to Greece, Turkey, and Italy to prevent the pending communist spread.
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The adoption of the Truman Doctrine marks the start of the "Cold War" that lasted until the fall of the Soviet state in 1991.
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The bikini arrives on American beaches.
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In 1949, George Orwell wrote a classic novel about a dystopian future. The book was titled 1984
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Publishes The golden apples, a book with a look at sexuality. some say it is early feminist works. Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. “I doubt that a better book about ‘the South’-one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life and its special tone and pattern-has ever been written” (New Yorker)
