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Aviation Advancements
"Despite the Great Depression, air transportation experienced phenomenal growth and change from the late 1920s through the 1930s, before U.S. entry into World War II intervened."
https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/america-by-air/online/innovation/index.cfm "The plane was shot down in flames. Nobody knows where we are. We may be here a long time." (Golding 30).
"If only we could make a radio. Or a plane. Or a boat" (Golding 140) -
Hoover Dam Formation
"Construction begins on the Hoover Dam"
https://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/blog/1930-timeline/ "There was a small part of the pool at the end of the river, dammed back by sand" (Golding 54). -
Swallows and Amazons Published
"Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by English author Arthur Ransome; it was first published on 1 December 1930, with the action taking place in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallows_and_Amazons
"While we're waiting we can have a good time on this island... Its like in a book... Treasure Island-- Swallows and Amazons-- Coral Island." (Golding 30) -
Amelia Earhart Crash
"Amelia Earhart crashes off the coast of Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean in her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world."
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/worlds-timeline-worlds/
"an' this is an island. Nobody don't know we're here... We may stay here till we die." (Golding 12). -
Fighter Plane Production
"The RAF met this challenge [challenge of possible attack] with some of the best fighter aircraft in the world – the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire." https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-thebattleofbritain#:~:text=It%20had%20suffered%20heavy%20losses,Hurricane%20and%20the%20Supermarine%20Spitfire.
"Ralph dance into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned Piggy." (Golding 9). -
Walkie-Talkie Invention
"The walkie-talkie was first invented in 1937 by the Canadian Don Hings, with many similar devices being developed by other inventors around the same time."
https://www.twoway-radio.co.uk/history-of-walkie-talkies#:~:text=The%20walkie%2Dtalkie%20was%20first,system%20when%20working%20for%20CM%26S.
"If only we could make a radio." (Golding 140). -
Evacuations Due to German Bombing Scares
"Fear that German bombing would cause civilian deaths prompted the government to evacuate children, mothers with infants and the infirm from British towns and cities during the Second World War."
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-evacuated-children-of-the-second-world-war
"on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before the evacuation." (Golding 28). -
Use of Machine Guns in WW2
"By 1939, the bulk of infantry training centered around the machine gun... Two types of machine guns had developed – heavy and light machine guns." https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/weapons-of-world-war-two/machine-guns/
"Ralph danced into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned Piggy." (Golding 9) -
WW2 Starts with Britain v. Germany Conflict
"Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war." https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history
"The tribe lay in a semicircle before him. The newly beaten and untied Wilfred was sniffling in the background." (Golding 137). (LOTF is influenced by WW2 'cause it shows the savagery in humans/ rivalry). -
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British Navy in WW2
"The Royal Navy played a key role in keeping Britain supplied with food, arms, and raw materials and in defeating the German campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a6649815.shtml
"I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me. He's a commander in the Navy. When he gets leave he'll rescue us." (Golding 12). -
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Auschwitz
"Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps."
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history
"You knew, didn't you? I'm a part of you?... Why things are the way they are?" (Golding 124). [the beast within us can be related to the evilness of Hitler and his actions.] -
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Battle of Britain
"The Battle of Britain in World War II was between Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Luftwaffe, Nazi Germany’s air force, and was the first battle in history fought solely in the air".
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-britain-1 "on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before the evacuation," (Golding 28). -
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Blitzkrieg
"300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing." https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-blitz-begins
"About the atom bomb? They're all dead." (Golding 12). -
Jeep Invention
"Jeep was invented"
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/52213
"but that was half as big as a cottage, as a car, a tank." (Golding 167) -
M&M's Get Their Name
"Forrest Mars, Sr. obtained a patent for the candy to be known as M&M's and based on British-made Smarties."
https://www.thoughtco.com/1940s-timeline-1779951
"I used to live with my auntie. She kept a candy store. I used to get ever so many candies." (Golding 11) -
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Use of Tanks During WW2
"The Sherman tank was the most commonly used American tank in World War II. More than 50,000 Shermans were produced... not only by the United States, but also by Great Britain, the Free French, China, and even the Soviet Union."https://www.nationalww2museum.org/visit/museum-campus/us-freedom-pavilion/vehicles-war/m4-sherman-tank#:~:text=The%20Sherman%20tank%20was%20the,and%20even%20the%20Soviet%20Union.
"but that was half as big as a cottage, big as a car, a tank." (Golding 167). -
Marine Remains found on a Pacific Island
"A group searching for the bodies of US troops has discovered graves that they believe contain more than 30 marines and sailors from World War Two. [there was a battle on the island]'. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48775714
"They're all dead... an' this is an island. Nobody don't know we're here." (Golding 12). -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This was when the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during WW2.
https://www.thoughtco.com/1940s-timeline-1779951
"About the atom bomb? They're all dead." (Golding 12) -
British Rail
"British Railways, byname British Rail, former national railway system of Great Britain, created by the Transport Act of 1947"
https://www.britannica.com/topic/British-Railways This goes along with when Piggy said, "Round the castles was a complex of marks, tracks, railway lines," (Golding 52). -
First Non-stop Flight around the world
The Boeing B-50 named Lucky Lady II landed at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, completing the first non-stop flight around the world"
https://www.thoughtco.com/1940s-timeline-1779951
"He couldn't land here. Not in a plane with wheels." (Golding 7). -
Colored TV Invention
"Transcontinental and Colour Tv introduced"
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/major-events-of-the-1950s--2
"Cos' things wouldn't make sense. Houses an' streets an' -- TV-- they wouldn't work." (Golding 80). -
Atomic Bomb Testing
"The UK's own nuclear weapons development began in October 1952 with its first independent testing. Codenamed 'Operation Hurricane', the tests were carried out in in a lagoon of the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia." https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/four-key-events-in-britain-s-nuclear-weapons-history/
"About the atom bomb? They're all dead." (Golding 12) -
The Great Smog of 1952
"December 5th to the 9th, Londoners suffered through the Great Smog of 1952, a severe air pollution event that caused deaths from breathing issues numbering in the thousands." https://www.thoughtco.com/1950s-timeline-1779952
"it's like asthma and you can't breath," (Golding 81). -
TV Popularization
"With more shows and technological improvements, TVs — like this Raytheon M 1601 — were more popular than ever in the 1950s. "I Love Lucy" was broadcast in almost every living room in America, reaching 67.3 million viewers. The first color television system began to broadcast in 1953." https://www.insider.com/the-evolution-of-tvs-through-the-decades
"And an airplane, and a TV set'" (Golding 56). -
Double Helix Discovery
"Cambridge University scientists James Watson and Francis Crick published a paper in the scientific journal Nature, announcing the discovery of the double-helix chemical structure of DNA"
https://www.thoughtco.com/1950s-timeline-1779952
"But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains." (Golding 68). [piggy was sciency and smart like them, I also imagine him looking like a chubbier version of Crick.] -
North Sea Flood
"The Princess Victoria was the first victim of an exceptional European windstorm, an extreme extratropical cyclone that grew in intensity as it skirted the British Isles and veered south along the east coast of Great Britain, with devastating effects."
"Some act of God-- a typhoon perhaps." (Golding 10). -
Queen's Coronation
"Queen Elizabeth II was crowned on 2 June 1953 in Westminster Abbey"
https://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/blog/1930-timeline/ "He says the Queen has a big room full of maps and all the islands in the world are drawn there. So the Queen's got a picture of this island." (Golding 32). -
Brown VS Board
"The greatest victory occurred in 1954. In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional separate schools for black people and white people."
https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/social-protests
"Samneric protested out of the heart of civilization." (Golding 155) -
Submarine Launch
"First Atomic Submarine Launched"
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/major-events-of-the-1950s--2
"and someone would say we ought to build a jet, or a submarine, or a TV set." (Golding 44) -
Sputnik Launch
"The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite."
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sputnik-launched#:~:text=The%20Soviet%20Union%20inaugurates%20the,base%20in%20the%20Kazakh%20Republic.
"but there were other rights in the sky, that moved fast, winked or went out, though not even a faint popping came down" (Golding 82).
