1939 On the 21st anniversary of Czech independence, celebrations become mass protests. A young medical student, Jan Opletal, is fatally wounded. 1940 Ministry of Health announces evacuation of 489,000 more children from London area. Laval becomes Foreign Minister of Vichy government. Italy attacks Greece after Greek rejection of three-hour ultimatum; Churchill promises ‘all the help […]
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1941 In a broadcast to the nation on Navy Day, President Franklin Roosevelt declares: “America has been attacked, the shooting has started.” He does not ask for full-scale war yet, realizing that many Americans are not yet ready for such a step. The Russians launch numerous counter-attacks around Moscow in an attempt to halt the
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1939 Germany annexes former Polish areas of Upper Silesia, West Prussia, Pomerania, Poznan, Ciechanow, Danzig, and part of Lodz; all the rest of German-occupied Poland to come under the “General Government.” Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60. 1940 London has longest air raid to date as a Catholic orphanage is
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William Clark Gable (1901-1960) was born to a protestant father working as an oil well driller and a catholic mother who died when he was 10 months old. As a young man, he worked at oil fields and as a horse manager until he gradually broke into the world of theater and screen acting. By
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1939 U-boats sink four more British ships. 1940 While bombing Chungking, China, Japanese bombs accidentally almost hit US embassy and US gunboat Tutuila, causing an international incident. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first black general in the US Army. 1941 US condemns Nazi practice of killing innocent civilians in reprisal for partisan activities. 1942
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Words At War Episode 40 “Science At War“ Released March 17, 1944. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “Science At War”. How science has improved the art of making war, and defending against it. Take a look at
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1938 In a move that increases tensions between the United States and Japan, the USS President Coolidge is forced to unload nearly $3 million worth of gold and silver before it is allowed to leave the Japanese controlled port of Shanghai. 1940 British Summer Time to be continued throughout winter. Hitler meets Petain at Montoire,
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Frances Vorne, a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself “The Shape”, wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year.
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From 1940 to 1945 working women had rose from 25% to 35% of the workforce. By the end of the war, approximately one of four married women worked outside the home. In 1943, nearly 310,00 women were working the in U.S. aircraft industry alone. Annette del Sur publicizing a salvage campaign for the Douglas Aircraft Company Part of
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1940 Hitler meets Franco, the Spanish head of state at Hendaye near the French-Spanish border. Franco declares ‘Spain will gladly fight at Germany’s side’, but remains non-committal regarding Spain’s entry into the war. The RAF continue its attacks on Berlin. 1941 De Gaulle meets French Resistance and asks to spare the innocent and bide their
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