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1940's Major News Events in History. 1940 Germany invades Denmark, Norway, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands during World War II. 1941 The G.I. Bill is signed by President Roosevelt, providing financial aid to World War II veterans. 1942 The draft age in the United States is lowered from 21 to 18.
21 de dez. de 2017 · The 1940s were of course dominated by the second world war, and Americans at home and overseas in the military were eager for distractions. Below are some of the most popular fads of the ’40s that helped people take their minds of their loved ones and the world’s troubles.
RetroWaste » The 1940s: A World At War. The 1940s got swallowed up in World War II. Many baseball players and other celebrities went to war, and much of American culture was focused around it. Advertisement. Much of popular culture was entrenched in anti-German and anti-Japanese sentiment.
views 2,666,794 updated. The 1940s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Overview. The United States did not enter World War II (1939–45) until after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. But even before that, the war had made an impact on American life.
The most popular music style during the 1940s was swing, which prevailed during World War II. In the later periods of the 1940s, less swing was prominent and crooners like Frank Sinatra , along with genres such as bebop and the earliest traces of rock and roll, were the prevalent genre.
RetroWaste » The 1940s: A World At War » 1940s Fashion: Clothing Styles & Trends. Fashion in the 1940s was a good mix of comfort and glamour. There were specific outfits that were meant for specific times of the day. Some of their designs look downright modern even by today’s standards. Advertisement. Men were still pretty dressed up.
Levitt's simple, low-cost houses were built on vast land tracts, which soon became known as Levittown. During the second half of the 1940s, there was a record-breaking boom in house building and the arrival of suburban living on a huge scale in America. Most of the new homes built in the 1940s were located in suburbs.
