1940 s Hope you enjoy it Lainey and

1940’ s Hope you enjoy it! -Lainey and Mira By: Lainey Cobb and Mira Cooper

Table of Contents Presidents, First Ladies, & Vice Presidents Famous People Sports Music Men's Fashion Ladies Fashion We Can Do It! What Did it Cost? Events Inventions THE END

PRESIDENTS, FIRST LADIES, AND VICE PRESIDENTS 1945 -1953 1933 -1945 • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Eleanor Roosevelt • John N. Garner, Henry A. Wallace, and Harry S Truman s the Roosevelt wa t to only presiden n two a th e r o m e v r se terms. • Harry S Truman • Elizabeth (Bess) Virginia Wallace Truman • Alben W. Barkley

Be Ingr rg id m an ! Famous People Ingrid Bergman was a famous Hollywood actress of the 1940 s. Bing Crosby won the best actor Oscar in 1944. Gary Cooper got Oscar-Winning roles as Will Kane from High Moon in 1941. Betty Grable landed the role of Glenda Crawford in Down Argentine Way in 1940. ry r! a G pe o o C tty Be le! ab Gr Bin Cro g sby !

Sports 1947, Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in pro baseball 1948, Joe Luis retires from the ring after 25 title fights since 1937 When Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets field on April 15, 1947, he became the first African American in the twentieth century to play baseball in the major leagues -breaking the "color line, " a segregation practice dating to the nineteenth century.

MUSIC 1940, You Are My Sunshine, By: Nat King Cole 1948, All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, This Land Is Your Land, By: Spike Jones and Nat King Cole 1944, Swinging on a Star, By: Bing Crosby

MEN'S FASHION During the war, men usually wore plain, functional suits in solid. They also wore plain colors like navy or black, with plain white shirts. The working man could go to the office in the elegant suits usually associated with the 1940 s emerged, after the war ended.

WOMEN'S FASHION Clothes • • Hair • swept up and pinned in elaborate styles • tied back, wavy, or rolled their everyday dress was usually plain and comfortable bobby socks, pleated skirts, sweaters, and round collars You often see stuff like they wore in vintage or costume stores. Though the stuff that they wore was very stylish for their time… A lot of people do their hair like this for costumes. It's one of the very popular quick and simple ideas. We have now updated fashion. So you don’t usually see people wearing this stuff unless it’s Halloween.

TH FL E AM W AG ER OR B LD EFO ICAN W RE AR II WE CAN DO IT! AMERICAN WOMEN IN WORLD WAR II American women played important roles during World War II, both at home and in uniform. Not only did they give their sons, husbands, fathers, and brothers to the war effort, they gave their time, energy, and some even gave their lives. The National WWII Museum recognizes the contribution that women played in the success of the Allied victory in World War II and explores that contribution in depth in it's Home Front gallery. Nearly 350, 000 American women served in uniform, both at home and aboard, volunteering for the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs, later renamed the Women's Army Corps), the Navy Women's Reserve (WAVES), the Marine Corps Women's Reserve, the Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS), the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS), the Army Nurses Corps, and the Navy Nurse Corps.

What Did it Cost? During the 1940 s the hourly wage would be between 30 -40 cents/hr. You could even see a movie for only 12 and 25 cents! The family car, usually a 1941 Pontiac, was only $800. Hamburgers and Milkshakes didn't even cost that much. They only cost as much as 10 -15 cents.

D-Day battle at Normandy EVENTS December 7 th, 1941, Pearl Harbor bombed by Japan 1942 -3, Sugar, Coffee, Gasoline Shoes, Meat, Cheese, and canned foods are rationed do to war effort 1944, D-Day battle at Normandy 1945, Chuck Yeager breaks Sound Barrier The bombing of Pearl Harbor is what brought the U. S. into W. W. II The bombing of Pearl Harbor

INVENTIONS In 1943, the Slinky was invented, but not commercially sold until 1947. In 1941, the first disposable aerosol cans were developed by Lyle Goodhue and W. N. Sullivan. In 1947, Elmer's Glue-ALL was introduced. M&Ms were manufactured for the U. S. Army.

Disasters 1940, Nov. 11 Blizzard struck Midwestern U. S. killing over 100 people 1941, Mar. 5 A blizzard in North Dakota killed 151 people 1941, Dec. 7 the bombing of Pearl Harbor killed 1, 177 crewman 1944, May 2 In Salerno, Italy, fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocated 521 people 1945, Nov. 8 A riverboat sank off Hong Kong and 1, 550 people were killed The bombing of Pearl Harbor is what brought the U. S. into W. W. II

BIBLIOGRAPHY www. timelines. ws/subjects/Disasters. HTM L www. 1940 s. org/history/on-the. Homefront/forties-slang-40 s www. imdb. com/list/Is 000356123/ www. mensfashionvetoknow. com/men_fashion_in_the 1940's www. 1940 s. org/from-the-1940 s-decadefamous-firsts inventers. about. com/od/timelines/a/

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