1935 to 1945
Your Sixties
Under Construction
If you had been born in 1875, just as this the period covered by is course began, then you would have been in your sixties during this decade.
[Video Introduction of Session]
Outline
Course 7 Decades of Biggest Change 1875 to 1945
Session 8 Topics
Topic 1 Churchill’s Wilderness Years
Topic 2 World War II Overview
Topic 3 Churchill’s War
Topic 4 WWII Special Topics
Topic 5 The Atomic Bomb
Other Sessions
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Headlines
| YEAR | EVENTS |
|---|---|
| 1936 | West Germany: German Troops Occupied Rhineland |
| 1936 | Jerusalem: Arab High Committee Formed to Combat Jewish Claims |
| 1936 | Addis Ababa: Italy Annexed Ethiopia |
| 1936 | Mussolini and Hitler Proclaimed Rome-Berlin Axis |
| 1936 | Nanjing, China: Chiang Kai-shek Declared War on Japan |
| 1937 | Amelia Earhart Lost on Pacific Flight |
| 1937 | Lakehurst, New Jersey: Fire Detroyed Zepplin Airship “Hindenburg” |
| 1938 | Munich: Summit Conference Gave Nazis Czech Sudetenland |
| 1938 | Howard Hughes Flew Around the World in 3 Days, 19 Hours, 17 Minutes |
| 1938 | USA: Benny Goodman’s Band Swing Style |
| 1938 | CBS News Radio Network: Orson Wells’ “War of the Worlds” Radio Show Was Broadcast |
| 1939 | Madrid: Spanish Civil War Ended in Fascist Victory |
| 1939 | Balkans: Italy Invaded Albania |
| 1939 | Nazis Invaded Poland Beginning World War II |
| 1939 | Vatican: Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli Elected Pope Pius XII |
| 1940 | France: Germans Conquered France |
| 1940 | Great Britain: German Air Campaign Repulsed |
| 1940 | Hollywood: Walt Disney Released “Fantasia”, His Greatest Animated Movie |
| 1941 | USSR: Germany Invaded Russia |
| 1941 | The Philippines: Japan Began Invasion of SE Pacific |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor: Japanese Bombed Fleet; USA Declared War |
| 1942 | Chicago: Enrico Fermi Split the Atom |
| 1942 | Guadalcanal: USA Won Key Campaign |
| 1942 | Kaiser Shipyards, USA: Developed Techniques for Building 10,000-Ton Liberty Ships in Four Days |
| 1942 | Allies Invaded North Africa |
| 1942 | Stalingrad: Two German Armies Surrounded and Captured |
| 1943 | Sicily: Allies Invaded Italy |
| 1943 | Hollywood: “Casablanca” Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henried Released |
| 1943 | Broadway, New York City: Rogers and Hammerstein’s First Musical “Oklahoma!” Opened |
| 1944 | Normandy: Allies Invaded German Controlled France |
| 1944 | Nazi Holocaust Accelerated to Peak Activity |
| 1945 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Atom Bombs Detonated |
| 1945 | World War II Ended |
| YEAR | EVENTS |
Concepts
More Information
From the History Moments Library
| YEAR | TITLE | AUTHOR(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1048 | Holy Roman Emperor Takes Control of the Papacy | Ferdinand Gregorovius| |Joseph Darras |
| 1054 | Orthodox, Catholics Split | Henry F. Tozer| |Joseph Deharbe |
| 1066 | Battle of Hastings | Sir Edward Creasy |
| YEAR | TITLE | AUTHOR(s) |