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Confronts problems with racial policies and believes World War II will be the end or at least make a change.
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A book of essays written by black leaders calling for the end of segregation, calling for voting rights in the South, unionism, and for a resolution to the problems of poverty.
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The American government allows first-generation Japanese Americans to enlist in the war effort.
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Pfizer opened the first commercial plant for large scale production of penicillin. It was sent with troops fight gangrene. Death due to infection decreased.
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A synagogue in New York City stayed open twenty four hours on D-Day for prayers and special services.
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United States built more planes in 1944 than Japan did from 1939 to 1945. By the end of the war, more than half of all industrial production in the world would take place in the United States.
