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1940
KEY EVENTS
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1946 - The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first programmable electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
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1941-1945 - The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Nazi Germany murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe,
SOURCES OF CONFLICT
Pearl Harbor - (1941) The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii,
Atomic Bombs - (1945) The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The aerial bombings together killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict
WW2 - (1939 - 1945) World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945.
QUOTE
"Wars are won in the mind before they can be won on the field."
"It was hard to live through the early 1940's in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of your life spiraled."
- Anthony Doerr, All the light we cannot see
"I have fought the Good Fight and won."
MAJOR FIGURES
Jackie Robinson - Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
Albert Einstein - Albert Einstein Visited Lincoln University, Where He Received an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Laws), Lectured Students on the Theory of Relativity, and Had Tea With Faculty Children.According to him, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima turned scientists into murderers.
Walter Disney - He was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons.
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