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The immersion of bebop
Bebop was a popular type of jazz in the 1940s Bebop was a new, modern style of jazz, and the birth of this new genre would give way to things like Hard bop, fusion, and free jazz -
The boom of highlife
Highlife flourished in the 1940s and 1950s. During this time, highlife split into two distinct styles: dance band highlife and guitar band highlife. -
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honky-tonk country
A variant of honky-tonk emerged in the 1940s, country-style honky-tonk. with figures like Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, and my favorite Don Williams. this type of sound would become more popular in the 1950 -
The Great Dictator: A classic film
The Great Dictator is an American political satire black comedy written, directed, and produced by, British filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. Having been the only Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, -
the discovery of plutonium
Plutonium was first made on February 24, 1941, at Berkeley, California, by Glenn Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph Kennedy, and Edwin McMillan. They produced it by bombarding uranium-238 with deuterium nuclei (alpha particles). -
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The invention of the ultrasound
In 1942, Dussik was drafted into the German Air Force as a medical officer where he worked in the neurology wards at the hospital, converted from an existing hotel where he published the first work on medical ultrasonics. then in the 1950s, Professor Ian Donald developed a practical technology using information from Dussik's paper. -
Quit India
Gandhi's Quit India speech, delivered to the A.I.C.C. in Bombay, India -
The Abstract (art ????)
The first generation of Abstract Expressionism flourished between 1943 and the mid-1950s. this shifted the art world's focus from Europe to New York. the image below is Hans Hofmann
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The Boom Of The Zoot
zoot suit fashion originated in Harlem, New York in the late 1930s but became popular with working-class youths across the country through Jazz and Jump Blues musicians in the 1940s -
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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The beginnings of decolonization in Africa and Asia
The Second World War dealt a serious blow to the colonial powers which led to the rise of pushback from the colonies my Home will see this freedom in 1960 -
The Body Snatcher
some saw this film as a commentary on the McCarthy era while others saw it as an allegory about communism, but all saw it as a film exploring the fear of losing individuality -
The END
World War II ended as Japan signed the formal surrender documents on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. -
The 75th
The first NBA game happened In 1946 making it 75 years old -
class ?? women's fashion of the 1940s
In the 1940s women's fashion, was defined by longer and fuller Skirts and wide masculine shoulders ending in a narrow waist. -
Break the barrier
Chuck Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier, showing the advancement In human engineering -
The key to the feature the Transistor
invented in Bell Labs in 1947 the transistor would become one of the backbones of Morden electrical engineering making it one of the most important invention of the ear -
Polaroid Cameras the eye into the future
The Polaroid was the first instant camera -
The Struggle for Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt "Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world". -
The Grass Is Singing-Doris Lessing
Set in South Africa under white rule,
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I, Robot Isaac Asimov publication
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links
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dizzy-Gillespie https://www.bmus.org/for-patients/history-of-ultrasound/ https://www.britannica.com/art/highlife-African-music https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/asia-and-africa https://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/struggle_for_human_rights.htm https://shorturl.at/858gB