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The 1940s was probably the most important decade of the 20th century The first half was consumed by World War II, an unprecedented global conflict, which produced an intoxicating mixture of anticipation and fear for future battles among its many participants.
Before the enemy could be engaged, the soldiers huddled in foxholes, waiting for the signal to advance his superiors that a few months earlier, were contemporaries for relatives at home, the wait was just as disconcerting sometimes details a special attack or a campaign would not be revealed until a newspaper landed on their doorstep.
The Battle of Britain was conducted in 1940, Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, and less than a year later, Germany surrendered It took two bombs atomic in August 1945 to convince Japan to do the same was chosen pen Parker 51 to sign the peace treaty between the United States and its former enemy.
At the end of the fight, people around the world took to the streets to celebrate peace, but the jubilation was tempered by the horror of genocide discovered, the impact of nuclear weapons, and the sad reality of the recovery postwar.
On the positive side, after the war, both Allied and Axis enjoyed the greatest economic expansion in history the United States, returning soldiers were given a chance to improve and ensure a more prosperous future for their families through a prospective GI Bill Equally visionary was the Marshall Plan for Europe, which sought to avoid the mistakes that were made at the end of the First World war
In the US, the war effort diverted limited to non-essential uses resources, with the production of everything from Lionel trains Bell Model 302 system phones waiting billboards porcelain truckloads were cast for scrap, although the chagrin of today's collectors producer Homer Laughlin Fiesta dishes were even forced to end all its red plates, bowls and cups because of government restrictions on the radioactive uranium in the enamel, which was necessary for the Manhattan project.
One of the exceptions to the limits of rationing in wartime metals is a young company in Pennsylvania called Zippo Unlike consumer-products companies such as Shakespeare had put fishing gear crank side of the aircraft, tanks and other equipment, Zippo has been able to maintain its production of lighters through a contract with the US army this partnership, the Zippo case steel with black crackle finish was born very collectible today, these lighters were questions the standard for soldiers and their black surfaces crackle is the perfect canvas for art trenches.
With its ability to stay on in a big wind, Zippo was actually a pretty clever innovation, but the 1940 has stimulated many advanced the most influential technology In 1943, Jacques Cousteau co-created the Aqualung, which opened the way, among other things, the craze sCUBA Self-Contained underwater breathing apparatus that followed.
In 1946, Piaggio of Italy introduced its first Vespa A year later, Bell Labs has laid the foundation for the first transistor, which would be put into production by Texas Instruments In a related development music, vinyl disc long play and 45 rpm records were introduced by Columbia and RCA in 1948 and 1949, respectively.
When American GIs returned home from the war, they faced a shortage of housing and basic goods and services, although they have better than the Chinese soldiers who have returned home to a civil war such as Levittown planned communities sprang to provide affordable housing old GI.
Designers like Charles and Ray Eames brought style to household items mass produced, providing tables, chairs and cabinets we now know that the mid century modern Before too long, the newly married soldiers and their wives are busy, the kickoff of a baby boom that would last until 1964.
Many American GIs came home with a taste for the objects they encountered from abroad, for example, military stationed in postwar Japan marveled high quality copper miniature trains produced by craftsmen local Some of them have come to know the locals, share photos of their favorite hometown form so that Japanese craftsmen could produce small series or even a kind of trains brass for them.
Soldiers stationed in Europe have returned home with an appreciation for all of cuckoos in Meissen porcelain glass of Italian art in particular the work of the glass on the island of Murano in Venice.
As for American popular culture, the 1940s was the decade of the superhero Superman the trend in 1938, his first appearance in Action Comics in the 1940s, the Man of Steel was at his peak game, fighting alone Hitler and Hirohito in a memorable cover 1942 Batman appeared at the end of 1939, but also, really was a child of the 1940s when Green Lantern arrived in July 1940, the archetypal super -héros is firmly rooted in the mythology of the nation.
Even the art world idolized his tenors painters like Mark Rothko, whose multifarious paintings supposedly from 1946 high color to heroic heights, and Jackson Pollock, whose drip paintings drop were created between 1947 and 1950 were legends in their own time Meanwhile, Pennsylvania native Alexander Calder essentially created the vocabulary to what a work of public sculpture should look like a more intimate level, he also produces beautiful and playful pieces of modernist jewelry .
Cars are not yet adult toys the middle class, they become d in 1950 and 60 as Detroit retooled for jeeps, airplanes, and anything that would help the war effort.
But after the war, new Hudsons, Buicks and DeSotos showed their big whitewall tires, a simplified and brilliant style Dads chrome polished these beauties on the weekend, when friends come over for drinks and a past listening to Sinatra evening on all radio enjoy board games like Monopoly and mahjong boys played with their Tonka trucks, while their sisters are occupied with Sparkle Plenty doll and Toni Ideal.
As for the literary set, they huddled first edition copies of The Human Comedy by William Saroyan, Native Son by Richard Wright, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, and probably the most widely read of all, The Common Sense baby book and child care by Dr. Benjamin Spock.
In the 1940s, famed Broadway composer Richard Rodgers teamed with a new lyricist named Oscar Hammerstein to create Oklahoma Carousel and South Pacific Irving Berlin contributed Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman in the title role dramas of Tennessee Williams decade included the Glass menagerie in 1945 and a streetcar named Desire in 1947, for which Williams won a Pulitzer directed by Elia Kazan, streetcar is best remembered for the performance of a 24-year-old actor named Marlon Brando in the role of Stanley Kowalski.
As you Expect from the Second World War plays on the silver screen in 1942, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman showed that the problems of three people didn t amount to a hill of beans in the crazy world that was Casablanca best years of our lives in 1946, showed how difficult it was for the return of the film GI William Wyler won an Oscar for the former paratrooper Harold Russell, who had lost both hands in an accident in the army training.
Other films, however, has nothing to do with the conflict Citizen Kane by Orson Welles in 1941, is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made and early 1940s was a glorious period for fans of Disney cartoons, Fantasia 1940 Dumbo 1941 Bambi 1942.
The TVs have become commercially available in the late 30's, but the war interrupted their acceptance by some accounts, at the end of World War II, there was perhaps no more than 5000 games in black and white the United States over the next five years, however, 17 million would be sold.
People have watched shows like The amateur Original Hour began as a radio program, and a variety show called Texaco Star Theater, which was hosted by Milton Berle There were even programs for children, including two s 'bowed in 1947, the CBS Children's Film Festival was greeted by a pair of hand puppets, Kukla and Ollie, and their human minder, Fran Allison; Howdy Doody Show Buffalo Bob Smith and featured a puppet collection, including the famous namesake of the show.
Imagine a time before rock n roll would be the 1940 Nat King Cole captured the spotlight with his 1943 hit Straighten Up and Fly Right, while Billie Holiday was the most productive decade of his short life, even with a brief stint prison and two arrests for narcotics.
Other musicians have used their talents to rally the troops Bandleader Glenn Miller signed for the army in 1942 and spent two years on the road to perform for her upcoming troops until his plane was lost in bad weather the Andrews Sisters sang songs like Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and Don t sit at the Apple Tree with someone other than me, Vera Lynn England promised the boys of other side of the Channel we will encounter.
A specific material shortages during the war was silk, which was needed for parachutes This means silk stockings and hose were all but impossible to find, which Vogue proclaim wryly that silk was on its last legs and with a war, it was bad form to wear clothes and accessories that have a look extravagant tastes were conservative, and remained so long after the end of the war.
During World War II, the fedora was the most popular women's hat most of the time because of the choice chapeau of Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca crochet snoods designed to keep the hair from getting tangled in the parts of the machine was a counterpoint to Rosie the Riveter famous red with polka dot scarf After the war, berets printed velvet and barkcloth gained ground.
Shoe designers have also been invited to work with non-traditional wooden sandals sitting materials on the closet floor beside felt corners and laces, open toe, back alligator pumps sling Satin mules with oversize fabric rosettes on their vamps have was the choice for wearing around the house.
Even the costume jewelers have been forced to reduce their materials, though it occasionally surprising results, for example, because Trifari could not use metal in its products due to rationing, the company was forced to go cheap base metals in sterling silver, which tripled prices for its products.
This seems DIDN t hurt sales Trifari, but after the war, the company wanted to return to, metals cheaper without maintenance Unfortunately, the public is now used to hype the money back at a cheaper metal, the company announced a revolutionary new metal called Trifanium to make it sound fancier.
Finally, Christian Dior has shaken things in 1947 with his New Look, lavishing defiantly 25 yards of precious fabric in one short taffeta evening dress Waists were tight and skirts swirled and downs, foreshadowing the style of the next decade.
As Glen Miller, boxing champion heavyweight Joe Louis, and other celebrities, baseball players like Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox and Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees enlisted to serve their country, but for players who are remained, their work was considered an essential part of the desire to maintain morale at home.
President Roosevelt even wrote a letter to the commissioner of baseball to ask him to keep baseball going, and game shows were considered so strategic that the Japanese have tried to block the No baseball card was produced for war, but Bowman cards and leaves have been widely collected again by the end of the decade.
Finally, it is interesting to note that football has undergone a major change in 1941, when teams were allowed to align different offensive and defensive lines hitherto was necessary list of 11 players on a team to play a entire game room of Famer Elroy Crazylegs Hirsch played for the Chicago Rockets from 1946 to 1948 before finishing his career with the Los Angeles Rams, while fellow Chicagoan Charley Trippi began his career in 1947 with the Cardinals.
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