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Raymond Janus (my Grandpa) is in the Army Airforce.
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Raymond Dorian, my great uncle, is an officer in the Navy, Seabee division, and is stationed in Kodiak Alaska.
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Cora Dorian (now know as my Grandma Janus) is in high school during the war years and writes to her friends and family who are in service.
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Anna DiSalvo (my Nonna- Italian for grandma) is a young girl living in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Dead bodies wash up from the shore each day, from the war.
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Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry make their first cartoon debut.
World Events Not Involving WWII
1940 Picture Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry -
Anthony DiSalvo is 11 at the start of the war. Each day of the war they go to food rationing stations and receive 250 grams of bread. They also are not allowed to buy anything during the war because the police closed almost everything.
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Shirley Temple stars in The Blue Bird and Young People.
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The Battle of Britain begins.
World War Two Events
July 10 1940 Picture citation:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain -
Leon Trotsky is assassinated.
World Events Not Involving WWII
August 20 1940
Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, founder and first leader of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky is assassinated. Picture citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky -
The Selective Service and Training Act
World Events Not Involving WWII
September 16 1940
This required men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register with their local draft board. Later when WWII began, the age requirements were changed to 18 to 35 (into military service) and 18 to 65 were required to register. Picture Citation: http://www.sjsapush.com/ch26.php -
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliances.
World War Two Events
September 20 1940 Picture citation: http://instruct.westvalley.edu/kelly/Distance_Learning/History_17B/Lecture12/Lecture12_p03.htm -
1940 Presidential Election
World Events Not Involving WWII
November 5 1940
Franklin Delanor Roosevelt wins reelection to a third term in the presidential office. Picture Citation: http://en.wikipeia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1940 -
Regular commercial television broadcasting begins.
World Events Not Involving WWII
1941
NBC television is also introduced for the first time. Picture citation: http://www.high-techproductions.com/testpatterns.htm -
The United States sends Walt Disney to South America as a part of its Good Neighbor Policy.
People
1941 Picture citation: http://www.newrafael.com/walt-disney-quotes/ -
Great Uncle Angelo DiSalvo is drafted to the Navy at 20 years old. He comes back to Italy in 1946 when the war has ended after being in a prison camp for four years.
Family Tree
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Aerosol Spray Can invented.
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Jeep invented.
Inventions
1941
Inventor: Arthur Herrington Picture citation: http://blogs4wdandsportutility.com/6286200/miscellaneous/old-jeep-photos-and-advertising/ -
Color television invented.
Inventions
1941
Color television by Peter Goldmark and a team of CBS researchers. This invention was based off the design by John Logie Baird in 1928, but didn’t actually hit the market until 1951. Picture Citation: http://televisiontime.wordpress.com/1940s/ -
Japan attacks and bombs Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and declares war on the United States and Britain.
World War Two Events
December 7 1941 Picture citation: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm -
Italy and Germany declare war against the United States.
World War Two Events
December 11 1941 Picture Citation: http://topyaps.com/top-10-reasons-why-hitler-lost-world-war-ii/ -
Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” is introduced on a Christmas Day radio.
People
December 25 1941 Picture citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(song) -
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My Grandpa Janus is stationed in India during the China Burma Campaign.
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Congress of Racial Equality is formed.
World Events Not Involving WWII
1942
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is founded by James L. Farmer, Jr., George Houser, James R. Robinson, Bernice Fisher, Homer Jack, and Joe Guinn. This US civil rights organization plays a huge role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Picture citation: http://civrights.wikispaces.com/Congress+of+Racial+Equality+(CORE)+-+Freedom+Rides -
Pope Pius XII protests against deportations of Jews.
People
Sometime in June 1945
Pope Pius XII protests the mass deportation of Jews in France. He orders the papal nuncio to protest against the “inhuman arrests and deportations of Jews”. Picture citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII -
Electronic Digital Computer invented.
Inventions
1942
Inventors: John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry Picture citation: http://wikibon.org/blog/timeline-of-computer-development/ -
Gandhi is arrested.
People
August 9 1942
Gandhi and the whole Congress Working Committee are arrested in Bombay (Mumbai, India) by the British. http://www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898 -
Coconut Grove Fire
World Events Not Involving WWII
November 28 1942
The Coconut Grove fire kills 492 people. This lead to tremendous change in fire codes and safety standards. http://www.boston.cm/photo_gallery/ri_fire/c2.htm -
Duke Ellington debuts Black, Brown, and Beige in Carnegie Hall.
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Oklahoma! the musical makes it's first debut on Broadway.
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Raymond Dorian comes home for a short period of time and gets married. Next, he goes to the South Pacific until the end of the war.
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Great Uncle Vincent DiSalvo dies at 18 from ear cancer.
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Exact date unknown. Picture Citation: http://timeline.cummer.org/timeline/the-italian-garden -
Silly Putty invented.
Inventions
1943
Inventor: James Wright Picture citation: http://originsofthings.blogspot.com/2011/08/history-of-silly-putty.html -
Italy surrenders to the Allies.
World War Two Events
September 8 1943 http://www.dipity.com/screamek/Italy-Timeline-20th-Century/ -
Italy declares war on Germany.
World War Two Events
October 13 1943 http://blog.aurorahistoryboutique.com/category/world-history/world-war-ii-world-history/ -
D-Day
World War Two Events
June 6 1944
Allies arrive in France with an invasion killing many http://www.gijobs.com/blog.aspx?id=2795&blogid=143 -
Elizabeth Taylor’s first big success- National Velvet.
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Kidney Dialysis Machine invented.
Inventions
1944
Inventor: Willem Kolff Picture citation: http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/dittrick/museum/artifacts1/kidney.html -
Aqualung invented.
Inventions
1944
Inventors: Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan Picture Citation: http://www.diveconcepts.com/gear/diving-concepts/ -
1944 Presidential Election
World Events Not Involving WWII
November 7 1944
Franklin Delanor Roosevelt makes history by becoming the first and only president to be elected to a fourth term. http://zenoizen.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/skelly-oil-1944-presidential-election-book/ -
Women get the right to vote in France.
World Events Not Involving WWII
1945 http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/TWR-13.html -
Cordell Hull wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
People
1945
Cordell Hull wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts for peace and understanding in the Western Hemisphere, his trade agreements, and his work to establish the United Nations. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1945/hull-bio.html -
Candyland invented.
Inventions
1945
Inventor: Eleanor Abbott http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_US/discover/candyland_history.cfm -
Microwave invented.
Inventions
1945
Inventor: Perry Spencer Picture Citation: http://www.eatmedaily.com/2010/04/natural-history-of-the-kitchen-the-microwave/ -
Atomic Bomb invented.
Inventions
1945
Inventors: The Manhattan Project Picture citation: http://www.dipity.com/itvs/History-of-Congo/ -
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
World War Two Events
August 6 1945 http://maryasglobalblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/us-atomic-bombing-of-japan-in-1945.html -
The United States drops another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
World War Two Events
August 9 1945 http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/nagasaki_atomic_bomb -
Tommy Brown hits a homerun and becomes the youngest person to hit a major league homerun.
People
August 20 1945
Tommy Brown, shortstop of the Brooklyn Dodgers at the time, at the age of 17, hits a homerun and becomes the youngest person to hit a homerun in the MLB.
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/ootp-mods-rosters-photos-quick-starts/184046-gambo-t_wil1-photopack-407.html -
Jackie Robinson meets Branch Rickey of the Dodgers.
People
August 28 1945
Jackie Robinson meets Branch Rickey of the Dodgers and agrees to join the Dodger Organization. This is only the beginning of his long-lived career with the Dodgers. http://newsone.com/1172265/newsone-celebrates-jackie-robinson-day-2011/ -
World War Two ends and my Grandpa Janus joins the Air Forde Reserves
Family Tree
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