American Society the 1940 s Timeline of Important

American Society: the 1940 s

Timeline of Important Events 1940 - Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected to a Third Term as U. S. President. 1941 - Cheerios, Captain America Comics, and M&Ms were created. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. 1942 - Anne Frank goes into hiding. The “Manhattan Project” began. 1943 - Italy joins the Allies Warsaw Ghetto uprising. 1944 - D- Day Ballpoint pens went on sale. Hitler escapes an assassination attempt. 1946 - Winston Churchill gives his “Iron Curtain” speech in Missouri. Bikinis were invented. 1945 - The US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The microwave oven and slinky were invented. 1948 - Gandhi was assassinated. “Dewey Defeats Truman” is in the newspaper. 1947 - Jewish refugees aboard Exodus and were turned back by Britain. Jackie Robinson joins The Dodgers. 1949 - Soviet Union obtains an atomic bomb. George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Demographics 1940 s Today Population was 132, 122, 000 Population is 320, 090, 857 Unemployment was 8, 120, 000 Unemployment is 7, 904, 000 National Debt was $43, 000, 000 National debt is $18, 000, 000 Average Salary was $1299 Average Salary is $35, 804 Minimum Wage was $. 43 per hour Minimum wage is $9. 00 per hour 55% of US homes had indoor plumbing 99% of US homes have indoor plumbing Life expectancy for women was 68 years Life expectancy for women is 81 years Life expectancy for men was 61 years Life expectancy for men is 76 years

The Changing Role of Women When the men were sent off to war, women took over many of the jobs that were left open. It was still common belief that women should stay at home but that idea was changing quickly.

Woman's Work Before the War Their stereotype and their jobs Women before World War II had very little say in society. They were commonly stereotyped as stay at home mothers who cooked, cleaned the house, and take care of the children when the man of the house was away. When men were drafted into the war, all of this changed.

Woman’s Work During the War and After Taking on the men’s jobs With the men away at war, the women stepped up to fill their roles. They did labor intensive jobs such as working in factories, steel yards, lumber mills, and shipyards. The amount of women in the workforce increased by 25 - 35% in the 1940’s. The war was so big that the Women’s Army Course and Women Accepted for Volunteer Services were founded, forcing the US Congress to allow women to serve in the US Navy.

Female firefighters during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 th, 1941 A member of America’s Women Air Corps A member of the U. S. Navy’s WAVES

Women The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943 Anne Curtis won the prestigious Sullivan Award and multiple Olympic medals in 1944 Eleanor Roosevelt became a US delegate for the newly founded United Nations in 1945 Barbara Washburn climbed Mount Mc. Kinley in 1947 Mildred “Babe” Didrikson and other women created the Ladies Professional Golf Tour

Racial Injustic e

Timeline of Racial Discrimination JUNE 20 TH, 1940 NAACP leader Elbert Williams lynched in Brownsville, Tennessee JUNE 21 st, 1940 Black Man lynched in Alabama for failing to address a white man as “Mr. ” FEBRUARY 19 th, MAY 30 th, 1943 1942 White sailors and President Franklin D. soldiers attack Roosevelt orders Latino Youth in internment of Los Angeles Zoot Japanese Americans Suit riots FEBRUARY 28 th, 1942 White mobs riot in Detroit JUNE 3 rd, 1943 White factory workers in Detroit strike to protest the promotion of black workers JANUARY 2 nd, 1944 15 -Year-Old Boy lynched in Florida for sending love note MARCH 26 th, 1944 Mississippi: Six white men murder black minister, Steal Land DECEMBER 16 th, 1945 Black family killed in Southern California house fire after refusing to move from white neighborhood OCTOBER 22 nd, 1946 Despite confession, five white men freed in Mississippi for lynching

1940 s Although it was a time of great unrest, much progress was made during the 1940 s. It was a decade of invention, war, labor, and injustice, and ultimately contributed to making America the way it is today.

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