1940’s Timeline

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
  • Ted Williams

    Ted Williams
    Ted Williams ends the season with a batting average over 0.400, the last player to accomplish the feat.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    On December 7, 1941,in Oahu, Hawaii, The attack on Pearl Harbor between Japan and the United States was to prevent the United States from interfering with the Japanese military actions in Southeastern Asia.
  • Coral Sea

    Coral Sea
  • Rosie the Riverter

    Rosie the Riverter
    Rosie the Riverter was a cultural icon of World War 2, respresenting the women who worked in factories and shipyards during the war.
  • White Rose (Nazis)

    White Rose (Nazis)
    In 1942, the White Rose (Nazis) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazis Germany led by a group of students at the University of Munich. The group anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign which called for opposition to the Nazi regime.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
  • Hitlers Suicide

    Hitlers Suicide
    Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter and consumed a cyanide capsule and then shot himself with a pistol. Warned by officers that the Russians were only a day from overtaking the chancellery.
  • Japanese Internment

    Japanese Internment
    Japanese Americans in the United States during World War 2 was forced to relocate and incarcerated in camps in the western interior of the country. The camps were established during World War 2 by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066.
  • Cold War

    Cold War
  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson
    Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, and became the first African-American baseball player in the Major Leagues.
  • NATO

    NATO
    The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries. The treaty was signed on April 4,1949.