Lord of the Flies By Tatiana.Bustios17 Period: 1930 to 1950 Lord of the Flies 1932 Roosevelt wins 1933 Hitler now Chancellor of Germany 1933 one-third of working men are now unemployed 1937 Ohio Flood 1937 Amelia Earhart body lost over Pacific ocean 1938 War of the Worlds 1938 12,500 Reports of martian sightings 1939 Germany Invades Poland 1939 Helicopter Invented 1939 First commercial flight through Atlantic ocean 1940 F.D.R. Elected for third term 1940 F.D.R. Elected for third term 1940 Battle of Dunkirk Period: 1940 to 1949 Patriotism at all time high 1941 Operation Barbosa Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing 1942 Manhattan Project Jun 6, 1944 D-Day 1945 Peace in Europe 1945 Atomic Bomb dropped 1949 NATO established 1950 Korean war begins 1950 Hydrogen Bomb made May 4, 1950 Baby-boom begins May 4, 1951 colour T.V. introduced May 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin Dies 1954 Segregation Illegal May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact signed Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam war begins May 5, 1958 NORAD Radar systems