1940’s Timeline

By Nflucas
  • Oldsmobile

    Oldsmobile
    This was the start to the new addition of oldsmobile cars. The second generation of these cars from 1941-1948 were sold in California, Georgia, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey. This expansion gained more popularity into other states which are actually still being sold today.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    A military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. These uncalled for attacks brought the United States into World War II.
  • Japanese Internment

    Japanese Internment
    Japanese internment in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps inside the western side of the country of 110,000 and 120,000 of Japanese ancestors. These camps were started by the FBI, and at the time president Franklin D. Roosevelt was in charge of them.
  • Coral Sea

    Coral Sea
    The Battle of the coral Sea lasted fro
    May 4th to May 8th of 1942. This battle was a major naval battle between the Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre dur.
  • White Rose (Nazis)

    White Rose (Nazis)
    The White Rose group was a non-violent group in Nazi Germany that was lead by a group of student professors, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf, and Alexander Schmorell of the University lf Municn
  • Rosie The Riveter

    Rosie The Riveter
  • D-Day

    D-Day
  • Kamikaze

    Kamikaze
  • Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima
  • Okinawa

    Okinawa
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Die

    Franklin D. Roosevelt Die
    On April 12th 1945 Roosevelt sat in the living room with Lucy Mercer, his two cousins, and his dog Fala, while his portrait was being painted his portrait. Then he complained about having a terrible pain in the back of his head and then collapsed.
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki
    During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • 1946 NFL championship

    1946 NFL championship
    The Chicago Bears deafeated the New York Giants 24-14 on December 15th 1946. Two days before the game two players, Frank Filchock and Merl Hapes, have been accused or bribery to fix the game
  • My Grandma was born

    December 5th, 1949 my Grandmother was born and this day is very important to me because if it was not for her I would not have developed a liking for wrestling.