1940

By Ldemko

  • Tuskegee Airmen

    Tuskegee Airmen
    African American fighter pilots who fought during WW2. Formed the 332nd fighter group and the 477th bombardment group
    All black military pilots who trained in the United States trained at Moton field , the Tuskegee Army Air Field, and were educated at Tuskegee university , located near .
    Tuskegee Alabama
    They were active 1940-1952
    The pilots trained in Tuskegee Alabama and completed missions throughout WW2
    The form the first African American army air corps division.

  • Anne Frank

    Anne Frank
    In 1942, World War II continued to dominate the news: Anne Frank went into hiding,  the Bataan Death March occurred, as did the Battles of Midway and Stalingrad. Japanese-Americans were interred in camps and the Manhattan Project began.

  • Warsaw Ghetto

    Warsaw Ghetto
    The year 1943 saw the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the killing of French Resistance leader Jean Moulin. Italy joined the Allies, and the grave of the Katyn Forest Massacre was found.

  • Kamikazes

    Kamikazes
    Japanese soldiers
    Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
    The Japanese carried their first kamikaze attack on October 25, 1944
    Across the Pacific Ocean during world war 2.
    Deliberately flying a plane into an enemy vessel.

  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
    It is the name given to the hysteria surrounding the Cold War. Senator Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover were two people closely involved with the red scare.

  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson
    In 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, and the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African-American baseball player in the Major Leagues.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Don’t read

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

  • NATO

    NATO
    North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949

  • The Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw Pact

  • Arms Race/weapons

    Arms Race/weapons

  • Cold War

    Cold War
    struggle between two world superpowers USA and USSR.
    A tension between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc
    In June 1947-1991
    began when the Soviet-backed North Korean.
    North Korean