1940s

Everyone for some reason knows the 1940s to be the time of World War II, but the ones I really feel sorry for are the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki who got bombed to death and England, they were getting the hell bombed out of them, poor people!!

History

• Jackie Robinson becomes first black baseball player

• Dec. 7, 1941- Japanese sneak bombing on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
• Feb. 19, 1942- As part of Executive Order 9066, all American-born Japanese and Japanese immigrants living in the US were to be put in relocation centers and detention camps




This was just some of the hate against the Japanese-Americans in the US in the 1940s!
• The Holocaust
• Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl is published
• South Africa institutes the policy of apartheid
• June 21, 1943- race riots in Detroit cause over 40 deaths and over 700 injuries
• August 6, 1945- first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, a civilian area
• August 9, 1945- 2nd atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, another civilian area

Music

• Billie Holiday

• Dean Martin





• Frank Sinatra

• Rosemary Clooney
• Glenn Miller
• The Dorsey Brothers
• Dizzy Gillespie

Movies

• Arsenic and Old Lace
• The Black Swan
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• Destination Tokyo
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Major Barbara
• Oliver Twist
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• Sands of Iwo Jima
• Picture of Dorian Grey
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• The Keys to the Kingdom
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

People Born/Famous

Celebrities popular:

Joan Fontaine

Judy Garland

Ingrid Bergman

Lauren Bacall

Greer Garson

Lana Turner

Vivien Leigh

People born: why does it seem that most of the people born in the 1940s are British musicians?

David Bowie

Mick Jagger

Charlie Watts

Ronnie Wood

Keith Richards

Al Pacino

Robert de Niro

Steven Tyler

Mick Taylor

Was originally in the Rolling Stones before Ronnie Wood came along

Paul McCartney

John Lennon

George Harrison

I thought he was personally the cutest Beatle!!!!

Ringo Starr

Bruce Lee

Richard Pryor

Alice Cooper

Phylicia Rashad