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b: Welcome to the 1940’s news.This news is about the whole decade.
Z first David with the sports of the 1940’s WHICH INCLUDE BASKETBALL
d: Thank you ZACH,  THIS IS THE SPORTS OF THE 1940′S
d: In basketball George Mikan scored 50 points for the Minneapolis lakers against the Buffalo clippers. The eighth South American Basketball Championship in [...]

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Sports

WOW
track and field
The 1940 Summer Olympics to be held in Helsinki, were cancelled due to outbreak of World War II. The major international athletics event of the year was thus the annual Finland-Sweden athletics international, held at the new Helsinki Olympic Stadium, exceptionally held as a triple international between Finland, Sweden and Germany.
Baseball
The Cincinnati [...]

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Presidents at the time

FDR 1933-1945

Harry S. Truman 1945- 1953

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The Special Deluxe was the top of the line Chevy in 1941. This Sport Sedan is loaded with the optional bumper guards, bumper wing guards, wheel trim rings, white wall tires rear fender skirts and a sun visor.  This car was almost the most used car at the time.
cool, eh?

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war

The Karabiner 98k was a bolt-action rifle with Mauser-type action holding five rounds of 7.92 x 57 mm (also known as 8 mm Mauser or 8 x 57 IS) on a stripper clip, loaded into an internal magazine. It was derived from earlier rifles, namely the Karabiner 98b, which in turn had been developed from [...]

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fashion+war

World War II was the most widespread war in history, and countries involved mobilized more than 100 million military personnel. Total war erased the distinction between civil and military resources and saw the complete activation of a nation’s economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities for the purposes of the war effort; nearly two-thirds of those killed [...]

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pictures of world war 2

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Frisbee

During World War 2, people had to find ways to have fun.  When kids discovered that metal pie plates flew well, tossing them became popular. However  , metal plates hurt your hands alot and made a lot of noise. Thenin 1948, Walter Morrison decided to make them out of plastic

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The begining o’ WWII

The Versailles Treaty of 1918 ending World War I demanded the destruction of the German military. Specifically, it ordered the destruction of all warplanes and prohibited any kind of air force. The London Ultimatum of May 1921 forbade Germany from manufacturing all aircraft until the summer of 1922, and then only under tight restrictions. The [...]

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