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& 189 - Decade: 1940s World War Two The pictures 1. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader of Germany during World War Two. Hitler committed suicide in an underground bunker in Berlin as the city fell to the Russian army in 1945. 2. American warplanes of World War Two. Air power was vital to both sides in the war. The Allies had a great advantage, however, once American factories began producing planes in large numbers. 3. Harry S. Truman, the president who made the decision to use the atomic bomb to force the Japanese to surrender. He became president when FDR died in the spring of 1945. 4. A machinist adjusts a metal working lathe in a factory. After the war, soldiers came back to take civilian jobs, or went to school with financial help from the G.I. Bill. The vocabulary terms A glossary for the vocabulary terms can be found with the link near the top of this section's main index page. See the Getting Started pages at the front of the workbook for suggestions for students about highlighting, and making vocabulary index cards. |
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Copyright 2018 by David Burns. All rights reserved. Illustrations and reading selections appearing in this work are taken from sources in the public domain and from private collections used by permission. Sources include: the Dover Pictorial Archive, the Library of Congress, The National Archives, The Hart Publishing Co., Corel Corporation and its licensors, Nova Development Corporation and its licensors, and others. Maps were created or adapted by the author using reference maps from the United States Geological Survey and Cartesia Software. Please see the home page for this title for more information. |