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Japan joins Axis powers
Japan joined the League of Nations in 1920 as a charter member and one of four permanent members of the League Council. When Japan joined the league of nations they included their part in what would come to be a very dominate council with Germany, Italy, Japan as the main dominates. -
Civil Works Administration
The Civil Works Administration was a short lived US jobs creation program. It was established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. -
Quarantine Speech
The Quarantine speech was given on October 5, 1937 in Chicago Illinois. The speech was given to try to quarantine off the aggressor nations. The speech intensified Americans isolationist mood. No countries were directly mentioned in the speech, but it was interpreted as referring to Japan, Italy, and Germany. -
Phoney War
The phoney was was an eight month period from September 3,1939 to May 10, 1940. During this time there was no major military operations used. This started when the allies declared war on Germany after Germany invaded Poland. -
US limits ships and supplies to enemies
The US limited to ships to enemies. The Us did this so that the enemies would stop having supplies. The US kept sending supplies to the allies so that they could have plenty of materials for the was. -
Superman Animated Movies
It is a series of animated shorts realeased by Paramount Pictures based on the comic book "Superman". A total of 17 shorts were produced. They were originally produced by Fleischer Studious, they made 8. Then taken over by Famous Studios. I chose this event because it started a whole generation of superhero movies and shows. -
Invention of the Slinky
Richard James invented the slinky by accident in 1943. It was invented when he was working to devise springs that could keep ships steady. He then knocked some samples off a shelf and watched in amazement as the springs went down the stairs. Initial sales were sluggish until Gimbels department store in Philadelphia allowed demonstrations. The first 400 were sold within minutes. This topic is important because it was very important to the children of future of generations. -
Mark 1 Computer
The Mark 1 Computer was built by IBM in 1944. But it was thought up by Harvard. It is a 50 foot long camshaft running through the length of the machine. It produced mathematical tables. This topic is interesting because it was a computer that generated mathematical tables for Harvard. -
Invention of the Microwave
Percy Spencer invented it by accident in 1945. He worked at a company that made microwave transmitters . He noticed that one day that he left his candy bar in it and it melted. The first food he tried to cook in it was popcorn.It was first sold in 1946. This topic is important because without the microwave it would be harder to keep left-overs and reheat them. -
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World Series 1945
The 1945 world series was between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs. Future Hall of Famers Hank Greenburg and Hal Newhouser from Detroit and Phil Cavaretta, Stan Hack, Andy Pafko from Chicago. Chicagon won game one(9-0), Detroit won game two (4-1), Chicago won game 3 (3-0), Detroit won game 4 (4-1), Detroit won game five (8-4), Chicago won game 6 (8-7), Detroit won game 7 (9-3). This topic is interesting because I love baseball and The Detroit Tigers are my favorite baseball team
