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The 1940s in America

Table of Contents

Abbott and Costello




Academy Awards




Acheson, Dean




Advertising in Canada




Advertising in the United States




Aerosol cans




African Americans




Agriculture in Canada




Agriculture in the United States




Air Force, U.S.




Air pollution




Aircraft carriers




Aircraft design and development




Alaska Highway




Aleutian Island occupation




All-American Girls Professional Baseball League




All the King’s Men




America First Committee




An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and American Democracy




American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research




American Federation of Labor




American Negro Exposition




Amos ’n’ Andy




Andrews Sisters




Andy Hardy films




Animated films




Antibiotics




Anticommunism




Appalachian Spring




Arcadia Conference




Arcaro, Eddie




Archaeology




Architecture




Armistice Day blizzard




Army, U.S.




Army Rangers




Arnold, Henry “Hap”




“Arsenal of Democracy” speech




Art movements




Art of This Century




Asian Americans




Astronomy




Atlantic, Battle of the




Atlantic Charter




Atomic bomb




Atomic clock




Atomic Energy Commission




Auden, W. H.




Auto racing




Automobiles and auto manufacturing




Baby boom




Ballard v. United States




Ballet Society




Balloon bombs, Japanese




Ballpoint pens




Barkley, Alben William




Baseball




Basketball




Bataan Death March




Baugh, Sammy




Benét, Stephen Vincent




Benny, Jack




Bentley, Elizabeth




Berle, Milton




Berlin blockade and airlift




Bernstein, Leonard




The Best Years of Our Lives




Biddle, Francis




Big bang theory




Bikini bathing suits




Binary automatic computer




Birth control




Black Dahlia murder




Black market




Bobby-soxers




Bogart, Humphrey




Bombers




Book publishing




Bourke-White, Margaret




Boxing




Bracero program




Bradley, Omar N.




Braun, Wernher von




Brenda Starr




Bretton Woods Conference




Broadway musicals




Bulge, Battle of the




Bunche, Ralph




Bureau of Land Management




Business and the economy in Canada




Business and the economy in the United States




Byrd, Richard E.




Byrnes, James




Cabrini canonization




Cairo Conference




Canada and Great Britain




Canadian Citizenship Act of 1946




Canadian minority communities




Canadian nationalism




Canadian participation in World War II




Canadian regionalism




Cancer




Cantwell v. Connecticut




Capra, Frank




Carbon dating




CARE




Casablanca




Casablanca Conference




Casualties of World War II




Censorship in Canada




Censorship in the United States




Central Intelligence Agency




Chandler, Raymond




Chaplains in World War II




Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire




China and North America




China-Burma-India theater




Chips the War Dog




Chuck and Chuckles




Churchill, Winston




Cisco Kid




Citizen Kane




Civil defense programs




Civil rights and liberties




Clifford, Clark




Cloud seeding




Coast Guard, U.S.




Cochran, Jacqueline




Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire




Code breaking




Code talkers




Coinage




Cold War




Coles, Honi




Comic books




Comic strips




The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care




Communist Party USA




Computers




Congress, U.S.




Congress of Industrial Organizations




Congress of Racial Equality




Conscientious objectors




Conservatism in U.S. politics




Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide




Cowboy films




Credit and debt




Crimes and scandals




Crosby, Bing




Curious George books




D Day




Dance




Davis, Benjamin O., Jr.




Davis, Bette




Davis, Glenn




Davis, Miles




Daylight saving time




Death of a Salesman




Decolonization of European empires




De Kooning, Willem




Demographics of Canada




Demographics of the United States




Department of Defense, U.S.




Desegregation of the U.S. military




Destroyers-for-bases deal




Dewey, Thomas E.




Dieppe raid




DiMaggio, Joe




Dim-out of 1945




Diners Club




Disney films




DNA discovery




Doolittle bombing raid




Dorsey, Tommy




Double Indemnity




Duncan v. Kahanamoku




Duplessis, Maurice Le Noblet




Economic wartime regulations




Education in Canada




Education in the United States




Einstein, Albert




Eisenhower, Dwight D.




Elections in Canada




Elections in the United States: 1940




Elections in the United States: 1942 and 1946




Elections in the United States: 1944




Elections in the United States: 1948




Eliot, T. S.




Ellington, Duke




Emergency Price Control Act of 1942




ENIAC




Enola Gay




Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township




Executive Order 8802




Executive orders




Fads




Fair Deal




Fair Employment Practices Commission




Fantasia




Farmer, Frances




Fashions and clothing




Faulkner, William




Federal Bureau of Investigation




Federal Tort Claims Act




Fender, Leo




Fermi, Enrico




Fields, W. C.




Film in Canada




Film in the United States




Film noir




Film serials




Films about World War II




Fiscus rescue attempt




Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.




Fluoridation




Flying saucers




Flying Tigers




Flynn, Errol




Food processing




Football




For Whom the Bell Tolls




Ford, John




Ford Motor Company




Foreign policy of Canada




Foreign policy of the United States




Forrestal, James




“Four Freedoms” speech




France and the United States




Freeways




Freezing of Japanese assets




Fulbright fellowship program




Fuller, R. Buckminster




G.I. Bill




Gambling




Gamow, George




Garland, Judy




Garner, Erroll Louis




Garson, Greer




Gehrig, Lou




General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade




General Motors




Geneva Conventions




Gentleman’s Agreement




German American Bund




Germany, occupation of




Godfrey, Arthur




Golf




The Good War: An Oral History of World War II




Goodman, Benny




Grable, Betty




Graham, Billy




The Grapes of Wrath




Gray, Pete




Great Blizzard of 1949




Great Books Foundation




The Great Dictator




“Great Escape” from Stalag Luft III




Great Marianas Turkey Shoot




“Greatest Generation”




Greer incident




Gross national product of Canada




Gross national product of the United States




Groves, Leslie Richard




Guadalcanal, Battle of




Guthrie, Woody




Hairstyles




Hale telescope




Hallaren, Mary A.




Halsey, William F. “Bull”




Hanford Nuclear Reservation




Harlem Globetrotters




Hayworth, Rita




Health care




Helicopters




Hillman, Sidney




Hiroshima




Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings




Hiss, Alger




Historiography




History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II




Hitchcock, Alfred




Hitler, Adolf




Hobbies




Hobbs Act




Hogan, Ben




Holiday, Billie




Hollywood blacklisting




Home appliances




Home furnishings




Homosexuality and gay rights




Hoover, J. Edgar




Hoover Commission




Hope, Bob




Hopper, Edward




Horne, Lena




Horney, Karen




Horse racing




House Committee on Un-American Activities




Housing in Canada




Housing in the United States




Howdy Doody Show




Hughes, Howard




Hull, Cordell




The Human Comedy




Ice hockey




Ickes, Harold




Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education




Immigration Act of 1943




Immigration to Canada




Immigration to the United States




Income and wages




Indian Claims Commission




Inflation




Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance




International Business Machines Corporation




International Court of Justice




International League for the Rights of Man




International trade




Inventions




Iran




“Iron Curtain” speech




Isolationism




Israel, creation of




Italian campaign




It’s a Wonderful Life




Iwo Jima, Battle of




Jackson, Mahalia




Jackson, Shirley




Jackson Hole National Monument




Japan, occupation of




Japanese American internment




Japanese Canadian internment




Jefferson Memorial




Jet engines




Jews in Canada




Jews in the United States




Jim Crow laws




Jitterbug




Journey of Reconciliation




Kaiser, Henry J.




Kamikaze attacks




Kelly, Gene




Kennan, George F.




Kennedy, John F.




Keynesian economics




Kidney dialysis




King, William Lyon Mackenzie




Knute Rockne: All American




Korea




Korematsu v. United States




Kukla, Fran, and Ollie




Labor strikes




La Guardia, Fiorello H.




LaMotta, Jake




Landing craft, amphibious




Latin America




Latinos




Laura




Lend-Lease




Levittown




Lewis, John L.




Liberty ships




Life




Literature in Canada




Literature in the United States




Lobotomy




Lombard, Carole




Look




Los Angeles, Battle of




Louis, Joe




Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber




Loyalty Program, Truman’s




Lynching and hate crime




M&M candies




MacArthur, Douglas




McCormick, Robert R.




Maclean’s




Magazines




“Maisie” films




The Maltese Falcon




Manhattan Project




Marines, U.S.




Marshall, George C.




Marshall Plan




Mathias, Bob




Mauldin, Bill




Medicine




Meet Me in St. Louis




Merrill’s Marauders




Mexico




Microwave ovens




Midway, Battle of




Military conscription in Canada




Military conscription in the United States




Miller, Glenn




Miracle on 34th Street




Miranda, Carmen




Miss America pageants




Morgan v. Virginia




Mount Rushmore National Memorial




Murdock v. Pennsylvania




Murphy, Audie




Murrow, Edward R.




Music: Classical




Music: Jazz




Music: Popular




The Naked and the Dead




Nation of Islam




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People




National Basketball Association




National debt




National parks




National Security Act of 1947




National Velvet




National War Labor Board




Native Americans




Native Son




Natural disasters




Natural resources




Navy, U.S.




Negro Leagues




New Deal programs




Newfoundland




Newspapers




Nimitz, Chester W.




Nobel Prizes




North African campaign




North Atlantic Treaty Organization




Norton County meteorite




Nuclear reactors




Nuremberg Trials




Nylon stockings




Office of Price Administration




Office of Strategic Services




Office of War Mobilization




Ogdensburg Agreement of 1940




Okinawa, Battle of




Oklahoma!




Olympic Games of 1948




Oppenheimer, J. Robert




Oregon bombing




Organization of American States




Organized crime




Our Plundered Planet




Paige, Satchel




Paris Peace Conference of 1946




Parker, Charlie




Patton, George S.




Pearl Harbor attack




Pentagon building




The Philadelphia Story




Philippine independence




Philippines




Philosophy and philosophers




Photography




Pinup girls




Plutonium discovery




Point Four Program




Polaroid instant cameras




Pollock, Jackson




Pornography




Port Chicago naval magazine explosion




Post, Emily




Postage stamps




Potsdam Conference




Pound, Ezra




President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War




Presidential powers




Presidential Succession Act of 1947




Prisoners of war, North American




Prisoners of war in North America




Prudential Insurance Co. v. Benjamin




Psychiatry and psychology




Pulp magazines




Pyle, Ernie




Quebec Conferences




Quebec nationalism




Race riots




Racial discrimination




Radar




Radio in Canada




Radio in the United States




Railroad seizure




Rand, Ayn




Randolph, A. Philip




Rayburn, Sam




Reader’s Digest




Recording industry




Recreation




Red Cross




Refugees in North America




Religion in Canada




Religion in the United States




Renaldo, Duncan




Rhythm nightclub fire




Richard, Maurice




Robbins, Jerome




Robinson, Jackie




Robinson, Sugar Ray




Rocketry




Rockwell, Norman




Rodeo




Rodgers, Richard, and Oscar Hammerstein II




Rogers, Ginger




Roland, Gilbert




Romero, César




Rooney, Mickey




Roosevelt, Eleanor




Roosevelt, Franklin D.




“Rosie the Riveter”




Sad Sack




St. Laurent, Louis




A Sand County Almanac




Sarnoff, David




Saturday Evening Post




Science and technology




Seeger, Pete




Seldes, George




Sex and sex education




Sexually transmitted diseases




Shelley v. Kraemer




Siegel, Bugsy




Sinatra, Frank




Skinner v. Oklahoma




Slang, wartime




Slovik execution




Smith, Margaret Chase




Smith Act




Smith Act trials




Smith-Connally Act




Smith v. Allwright




Smoking and tobacco




Soccer




Social sciences




Socialist Workers Party




South Pacific




Spellman, Francis Joseph




Sports in Canada




Sports in the United States




Stars and Stripes




Stein, Gertrude




Stewart, James




Stilwell, Joseph Warren




Stimson, Henry L.




Stone, Harlan Fiske




Stormy Weather




Strategic bombing




A Streetcar Named Desire




Studies in Social Psychology in World War II




Submarine warfare




Sullivan brothers




Sullivan’s Travels




Superman




Supreme Court, U.S.




Synchrocyclotron




Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse




Taft, Robert A.




Taft-Hartley Act




Tehran Conference




Telephone technology and service




Television




Tennis




Texaco Star Theater




Texas City disaster




Theater in Canada




Theater in the United States




Theology and theologians




They Were Expendable




Thornhill v. Alabama




Three Mesquiteers




Thurmond, Strom




Tokyo Rose




Trans World Airlines




Transistors




Travel in the United States




The Treasure of the Sierra Madre




Truman, Harry S.




Truman Doctrine




Truman proclamations




Tucker Torpedo




Turkey




Tuskegee Airmen




Tuskegee syphilis study




Unconditional surrender policy




Unemployment in Canada




Unemployment in the United States




UNICEF




Unionism




United Fruit Company




United Nations




United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell




United Service Organizations




United States v. Aluminum Company of America




United States v. Darby Lumber Co.




United States v. Paramount Pictures, et al.




United States v. United Mine Workers




Universal Declaration of Human Rights




Urbanization in Canada




Urbanization in the United States




V-E Day and V-J Day




Vandenberg, Arthur Hendrick




Vinson, Fred M.




Voice of America




Voting rights




Walden Two




Wallace, Henry A.




War bonds




War brides




War crimes and atrocities




War debt




War heroes




War Production Board




War surplus




Warmerdam, Cornelius




Wartime espionage




Wartime industries




Wartime propaganda in Canada




Wartime propaganda in the United States




Wartime rationing




Wartime sabotage




Wartime salvage drives




Wartime seizures of businesses




Wartime technological advances




Water pollution




Water Pollution Control Act




Welles, Orson




West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette




Where’s Charley?




White, Harry Dexter




White, Walter F.




White House renovations




Wickard v. Filburn




Williams, Hank




Williams, Ted




Williams, Tennessee




Willkie, Wendell




Wolf v. Colorado




Women in the U.S. military




Women’s roles and rights in Canada




Women’s roles and rights in the United States




Wonder Woman




World Health Organization




World War II




World War II mobilization




Wright, Frank Lloyd




Wright, Richard




Xerography




Yakus v. United States




Yalta Conference




Yankee Doodle Dandy




Yeager, Chuck




Zaharias, Babe Didrikson




Zoot-suit riots




Zoot suits




Entertainment: Major Broadway Plays and Awards of the 1940’s




Entertainment: Academy Awards for Films of the 1940’s




Entertainment: Major Films of the 1940’s




Entertainment: Major Radio Programs of the 1940’s




Legislation: Major U.S. Legislation of the 1940’s




Legislation: Major U.S. Supreme Court Decisions of the 1940’s




Literature: Best-Selling Books in the United States in the 1940’s




Literature: Major Literary Awards in the 1940’s




Music: Popular Musicians of the 1940’s




Music: Top-Selling U.S. Recordings of the 1940’s




Sports: Winners of Major Events in the 1940’s




World War II: Wartime Agencies of the U.S. Government in the 1940’s




World War II Battles




World War II: Military Leaders




Time Line of the 1940’s in America




Bibliography




Glossary of Popular Terminology of the 1940’s




List of Entries by Category for The Forties in America




Publisher’s Note