1940’s

By riclugodavila

  • Mount Rushmore

    Mount Rushmore
    This monument for the US presidents was finished in 1941

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack which basically bumped us into the war

  • Rosie the riveter

    Rosie the riveter
    Is a cultural icon of WW2 representing the women who worked in factories

  • Rationing

    Rationing
    Controlled distribution of scarce resources

  • Anne Frank

    Anne Frank
    Anne Frank went into hiding in 1942

  • White Rose

    White Rose
    A group that rose against the Nazis

  • Invasion of Italy

    Invasion of Italy
    Allied landing on mainland Italy

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Normandy Landings were the landings of the Allied invasion on Normandy

  • Kamikazees

    Kamikazees
    Pilots that would make a deliberate suicidal crash

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    The nuclear bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended WW2

  • Okinawa

    Okinawa
    Battle of Okinawa which lasted until June 22

  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson
    First black man to be in a sport. He also joined the Dodgers

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    An American foreign policy used to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War