Publisher: Twenty First Century Books

Copyright Date: 2010

Edition Date: 2010 Release Date: 01/09/09

Pages: 144 pages

ISBN: 0-7613-2945-5

ISBN 13: 978-0-7613-2945-9

Dewey: 973.917

LCCN: 2007042904

Dimensions: 26 cm.

Subject Heading:
Nineteen forties. Juvenile literature.
Nineteen forties.
United States. History. 1933-1945. Juvenile literature.
United States. History. 1945-1953. Juvenile literature.
United States. History. 1933-1945.
United States. History. 1945-1953.

Language: English

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Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-135) and index.

Interest Level: 7-12

In the 1940s, Americans focused on fighting World War II. They bought war bonds, watched war movies, and grew backyard victory gardens to supply their own fruits and vegetables. When the war ended, Americans celebrated and enjoyed new-found prosperity. World War II dominated U.S. society in the 1940s, but the decade delivered many other significant events. Americans of the 1940s watched Jackie Robinson become the first African American to play big-league baseball. They listened to Groucho Marx and Kate Smith on the radio and then watched radio make way for the first television shows. from Pearl Harbor to the Pentagon, from Broadway to the new American suburbs, read about this decade of hard times, hard work, and success.