1940s United States

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/1940s_United_States
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
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gptkbp:capital gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:currency gptkb:US_dollar
gptkbp:endDate 1949
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 1940s United States
gptkbp:involvedIn gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:George_Marshall
gptkb:Alben_W._Barkley
gptkb:Arthur_Miller
gptkb:Billie_Holiday
gptkb:Charles_Lindbergh
gptkb:Chester_W._Nimitz
gptkb:Dean_Acheson
gptkb:Douglas_MacArthur
gptkb:Duke_Ellington
gptkb:Dwight_D._Eisenhower
gptkb:Eleanor_Roosevelt
gptkb:Enrico_Fermi
gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway
gptkb:Frank_Sinatra
gptkb:Franklin_D._Roosevelt
gptkb:Fred_Korematsu
gptkb:George_S._Patton
gptkb:Harry_Hopkins
gptkb:Harry_S._Truman
gptkb:Hedy_Lamarr
gptkb:Humphrey_Bogart
gptkb:J._Edgar_Hoover
gptkb:Jackie_Robinson
gptkb:Joe_DiMaggio
gptkb:John_Steinbeck
gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Louis_Armstrong
gptkb:Marilyn_Monroe
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Robert_Oppenheimer
gptkb:Ted_Williams
gptkb:Tennessee_Williams
gptkb:Thurgood_Marshall
gptkb:Walt_Disney
gptkb:Joseph_McCarthy
gptkb:Ella_Fitzgerald
gptkb:Norman_Rockwell
gptkb:Orson_Welles
gptkb:Rosie_the_Riveter_(cultural_icon)
gptkb:Howard_Hughes
gptkb:Jackson_Pollock
gptkb:Judy_Garland
gptkb:Audie_Murphy
gptkb:Benjamin_Spock
gptkb:Adlai_Stevenson_II
gptkb:Henry_Wallace
gptkb:Margaret_Sanger
gptkb:Omar_Bradley
gptkb:Katherine_Hepburn
Bing Crosby
Albert Einstein (resident)
Babe Ruth (retired 1940s)
gptkbp:population about 132-150 million
gptkbp:president gptkb:Franklin_D._Roosevelt
gptkb:Harry_S._Truman
gptkbp:significantEvent gptkb:Start_of_the_Cold_War
gptkb:Fair_Deal
gptkb:Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
gptkb:House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
gptkb:Manhattan_Project
gptkb:Marshall_Plan
gptkb:Pearl_Harbor_attack
gptkb:Taft-Hartley_Act
gptkb:Truman_Doctrine
gptkb:Zoot_Suit_Riots
gptkb:Nuremberg_Trials
gptkb:Hollywood_Golden_Age
gptkb:Alger_Hiss_case
gptkb:Hollywood_Ten
gptkb:Executive_Order_9981
gptkb:Bretton_Woods_Conference
gptkb:Red_Scare
gptkb:Smith_Act
gptkb:G.I._Bill
gptkb:Baby_boom
gptkb:Polio_epidemic
gptkb:Rosie_the_Riveter
gptkb:End_of_World_War_II
gptkb:Servicemen's_Readjustment_Act
Japanese American internment
NATO founding
Labor strikes
Desegregation of the armed forces
United Nations founding
First computer (ENIAC)
Jackie Robinson breaks MLB color barrier
Korean War (began 1949)
Levittown construction
gptkbp:startDate 1940
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Bop_(music_genre)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6