Hi, welcome to the forties. Do you like our guide Bob and his mount Tock? This is a swinging age with a lot war and disasters. There are cool and interesting facts in store for you, just look below and you will see what I mean.
Did you know.......
There where two presidents from 1940-1949. They were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the thirty-second president of the United States. He was elected more times than any other president ever! Now, no president can ever break that record because there is a law that no president can serve more than two times in a row.
Harry S. Truman was the thirty-third president of the United States. He was serving as vice-president and became president after President Roosevelt died in office.
People danced to the Charleston. They enjoyed songs such as: Juke Box Saturday Night, Playmates, South of the Border and Oh Johnny.
Rosie the Riveter was a character who encouraged women to do their part for the war. Women worked in factories to help out. Most women did not work outside the home so this was a big step for women. After the war the women went back to the home to work and gave their jobs back to the men.
Jackie Robinson became the first black baseball player to play major league baseball.
Sugar Ray Robinson was one of the best boxers ever known.
Baseball was big in the 1940's. But then there was a Negro league and a white league.
Boxing was a big sport in the 1940's.
Freewheeling Brawl was when five girls were on roller-skates and wrestled as they skated around a ring. When one fell, it usually hurt and if you were lucky you would not break a bone. You could see it because there were big bleechers where you sit, it was not on T.V.
Electric water heaters and pumps were introduced in the1940's.
On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was set off near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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