1940s Timeline

  • War production boom

    Throughout 1941-1944 war production was the main leading factor of the us economy and helped the economy and gave people more jobs.
  • President Roosevelt created thousads of jobs

    1941Franklin Roosevelt created a deal that opened thousands of jobs but unemployment remained at 15%
  • Pearl Harbor

    The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, hawaii
  • Hitler started to mass murder Jews

    Hitler was an ani jewish person and wanted to kill all jews and he started an army and when and captured all the jews and took them to camps to eather make them work or to kill them
  • First air strike on Germany

    The first air strike that the US did on germany was in 1943 after pearal harbor on the city of Wilhelmshaven
  • D-Day

    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
  • Presient Roosevelt Died

    Presient Franklin D. Roosevelt died of Cerebral hemorrhage at the age 63 at this home in Warm Springs, Georgia
  • US droped atomic bomb on Japan

    The US droped an atomic bomb on a Japan city Hiroshima and then the US surrponded Japan
  • The U.S. Railway Strike

    About 250,000 railroad workers went on strike during May . Members of two major unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, organized the strike to seek wage increases. The strike went on for four days before both sides could come to an agreement. President Truman had threatened to use the government to operate the railways by drafting the striking workers into the army.
  • Cold War started

    US enunciates policy of aid for nations it deems threatened by communism in what became known as the Truman Doctrine. Cold War with Soviet Union begins. And it lasted like 45 years.
  • Marshall Plan was passed by government

    The marshall plan was where the United States transferred over $15 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.
  • End of 1949 Resession

    The Recession of 1949 was a downturn in the United States lasting for 11 months. The 1949 recession was a brief economic downturn; forecasters of the time expected much worse, perhaps influenced by the poor economy in their recent lifetime. The recession began shortly after President Truman's "Fair Deal" economic reforms.