Historical Dictionary of the 1940s

Abbott, William Alexander “Bud”

Abortion

Acheson, Dean Gooderham

African Americans

African Americans In The Military

African American Nationalism

Agriculture

Aiken, George David

Alcatraz

Alcoholics Anonymous (Aa)

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL)

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA)

America and Australia

America and East Asia

America and Germany

America and Greece

America and Israel

America and Italy

America and Japan

America and the Arab World

America and the Holocaust

America and the United Kingdom

America and the USSR

America First Movement

America in 1940

American Dream

American Federation of Labor (AFL)

American Jews

Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)

Amos'n' Andy

Anderson, Clinton Presba

Anderson, Marian

Andrews Sisters

Antimiscegenation Laws

Anti-Semitism

Arden, Eve

Army Corps of Engineers

Art

Arvey, Jacob M.

Astronomy

Atomic Energy Commission

Austin, Warren Robinson

Automobiles

Autry, Orvon Gene

Aviation (Commercial)

Aviation (Military)

“Axis Sally”

B-29 Superfortress

Baby Boom

Ball, Lucille Desiree

Ballpoint Pens

Barkley, Alben William

Baruch, Bernard Mannes

Baseball

Baseball's Negro Leagues

Basketball (College)

Basketball (Professional)

Beard, Charles A.

Bell, James Thomas “Cool Papa”

Benét, Stephen Vincent

Benson, Ezra Taft

Bentley, Elizabeth

Berlin Blockade

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

Biddle, Francis Beverly

Big Bang Theory

Bikini

Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore

Birth Control

Black Elk, Nicholas

Black, Hugo Lafayette

Blimps and Airships

“Bogey and Bacall”—Humphrey Deforest Bogart

Bowles, Chester

Boxing

Boyd, William

Bradley, Omar Nelson

Bretton Woods Conference

Bricker, John William

Bridges, Henry Styles

Broadway

Browder, Earl Russell

Buck, Pearl S.

Bulge, Battle of The

Bunche, Ralph Johnson

Burdick, Usher Lloyd

Bush, Prescott Sheldon

Cairo Conference

Calomiris, Angela J.

Capehart, Homer Earl

Caraway, Hattie Wyatt

Casablanca Conference

Case, Francis Higbee

Cather, Willa

Catt, Carrie Chapman

Central Intelligence Agency

Chain Stores

Chambers, Whittaker

Chandler, Albert Benjamin

Chaplinsky V. New Hampshire

Chavez, Dennis

Chemistry

Chiang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jieshi)

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

Child Labor

Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer

Civil Air Patrol (CAP)

Civil Rights

Civilian Public Service Camps

Clark, David Worth

Clift, Montgomery

Cocoanut Grove Fire

Collier, John

Collins, Dorothy

Commager, Henry Steele

Commentary

Communist Party (CPUSA)

Conant, James Bryant

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Congressional Elections of 1942

Congressional Elections of 1946

Conscientious Objection

Conservation

Conspicuous Consumption

Containment

Copland, Aaron

Coplon, Judith

Coral Sea, Battle of

Corn Stunt Disease

Cortisone

Coxey, Jacob Secher

Crime

Crosby, Bing

Currie, Lauchlin

Curti, Merle Eugene

Darlan, Jean François

Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Jr.

Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Sr.

Davis, Bette

D-Day

Ddt

De Gaulle, Charles

Delgado V. Bastrop Independent School District

Democratic Party

Destroyers for Bases

Detroit Race Riot of 1943

Dewey, John

Dewey, Thomas Edmund

Dies, Martin

Dimaggio, Joseph

Disney, Walter Elias “Walt”

Dixiecrats

Doby, Lawrence Eugene

Dobrzhansky, Feodosy Grigrevich (Theodosius)

Dodge, Henry Chee

Dogs in War

Douglas, Helen Gahagan

Douglas, Paul Howard

Douglas, William Orville

Drug Abuse

Dubois, William Edward Burghardt

Duggan, Laurence

Dulles, John Foster

Dumbarton Oaks Conference

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Ebony Magazine

Economy

Education (Higher)

Education (Primary)

Education (Secondary)

Edwards V. California

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight David

Employment Act of 1946

Enola Gay

Entertainers at the Front

Evangelicalism

Evans, Luther Harris

Evolutionary Biology

Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)

Fala

Farley, James A.

Farrand, Max

Fascist Italy

“Father Divine” (George Baker)

Faulkner, William Cuthbert

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Fermi, Enrico

Feynman, Richard Phillips

Fields, W.C.

Fireside Chats

Flanagan, Hallie Mae Ferguson

Flynn, John T.

Food and Diet

Football (College)

Football (Professional)

Ford, Gerald Rudolph

Forrestal, James Vincent

Four Freedoms

Franco, Francisco

Frankfurter, Felix

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

From Slavery to Freedom

Frost, Robert

Fry, Varian

Fuchs, Klaus

Fulbright, J. William

Fuldheim, Dorothy

Fulton, Bain Ecarius “Shorty”

Gable, Clark

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand

Gaston, Arthur George

Gays and Lesbians

German Aliens

German-American Bund

German Americans

Gi Bill of Rights (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944)

Gibson, Josh

Gleason, Jackie

Goddard, Robert Hutchings

Goldwater, Barry Morris, Sr.

Gone With the Wind

Good Neighbor Policy

Goodman, Benny

Gore, Albert Arnold, Sr.

Gouzenko's Defection

Grace, Charles Manuel

Graham, William Franklin “Billy”

Gray, Peter J.

Great River Road

Green, Theodore Francis

Greenway, Isabella Selmes Ferguson King

Gruening, Ernest

Guadalcanal, Battle of

Hand, Learned

Hannegan, Robert Emmet

Harlem Race Riot of 1943

Harriman, William Averell

Hawaii

Hayden, Carl Trumbull

Hayes, George Francis “Gabby”

Health and Disease

Hearst, William Randolph

Hemingway, Ernest Miller

Hepburn, Katharine Houghton

Hickenlooper, Bourke Blakemore

Hillman, Sidney

Hirohito

Hiroshima

Hispanic Americans

Hiss, Alger

Historians

Hitchcock, Alfred Joseph

Hitler, Adolf

Hobby, Oveta Culp

Holden, William

Holland, Spessard Lindsey

Hollywood Actors

Hollywood Films

Hollywood Ten

Homosexuality in Nazi Germany

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hoover Dam

Hopkins, Harry

Horne, Lena Mary Calhoun

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)

Howdy Doody

Hughes, Charles Evans

Hull, Cordell

Humphrey, Hubert Horatio Jr.

Hydrogen Bomb Research

Ickes, Harold Leclaire

Illinois Ex Rel. Mccollum V. Board of Education

Immigration

Inflation

Intellectual Life

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)

Internationalism

Invasion of Italy

“Iron Curtain” Speech

Isolationism

Italian Americans

Ives, Elizabeth Davis Stevenson

Iwo Jima, Battle of

Iwo Jima Monument (Marine Corps War Memorial)

Jackson, Robert Houghwout

Japan Under Militarism

Japanese Americans

Jeep

Jehovah's Witnesses

Jitterbug

Johnson, Hiram W.

Johnson, Lyndon Baines

Journalism

Judaism

Judd, Walter Henry

Juvenile Delinquency

Kaiser, Henry John

Kaltenborn, Hans Von “H.V.”

Kamikaze

Kefauver, Estes

Keller, Helen

Kennan, George Frost

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

Kerr, Robert Samuel

King, Martin Luther, JR.

Kinsey, Alfred Charles

Knowland, William Fife

Knox, Frank

Korematsu V. United States

Krivitsky, Walter G.

Kuhn, Fritz

La Follette, Robert Marion, Jr.

La Motta, Giacobe [Jake]

Labor (Organized)

Labor (Unorganized)

Landon, Alfred Mossman

Langer, William

Lash, Joseph P.

Laski, Harold

Lausche, Frank John

Lewis, John Llewellyn

Leyte Gulf, Battle of

Liberace

Libraries

Lilienthal, David E.

Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, Jr.

Louis, Joe

Loy, Myrna

Loyalty Review Board

Lucas, Scott Wike

Luce, Clare Boothe

Lynching

Macarthur, Douglas

Macleish, Archibald

Magazines

Mailer, Norman Kingsley

Manhattan Project

Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung)

March, Fredric

Marriage and Divorce

Marshall, George Catlett, Jr.

Marshall Plan

Martin, Agnes Bernice

Massing, Hede Tune

Mauldin, William Henry

Mayr, Ernst

Mccarran, Patrick Anthony

Mccarthy, Joseph Raymond

Mcfarland, Ernest William

Mcnary, Charles Linza

Medicine

Mendez V. Westminster School District

Mental Health and Mental Health Institutions

Merton, Thomas

Mexican Americans

Midway, Battle of

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Miller, Arthur Aster

Miller, George Augustus, Jr.

Miller, Perry Gilbert Eddy

Monroney, Almer Stillwell Mike

Montgomery, Bernard Law

Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.

Morison, Samuel Eliot

Morse, Wayne Lyman

Moscow Conference

Moses, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma”

Mount Rushmore

Muller, Hermann Joseph

Mundt, Karl E.

Murphy, Audie Leon

Murphy, Frank

Murray, John Courtney

Murrow, Edward Roscoe

Music (Classical)

Mussolini, Benito

Muste, Abraham Johannes

“My Day” Column

Nagasaki

Nation of Islam

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)

National Defense Mediation Board

National Gallery of Art

National Health Insurance

National Parks

National Security Act of 1947

Native Americans

Native Americans in the Armed Forces

Navajo Code Talkers

Nazi Germany

Nazi Saboteurs

Nevins, Allan

Newspapers

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Nixon, Richard Milhous

Norris, George

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Nuremberg Trials

Nye, Gerald Prentice

O'brien, Margaret

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Office of War Information (OWI)

Okinawa

Oleomargarine

O'neill, Eugene Gladstone

Operation Overlord

Operation Torch

Orlov, Alexander

Orwell, George

Pacifism

Paige, Leroy “Satchel”

Patton, George Smith

Pauling, Linus Carl

Peale, Norman Vincent

Pearl Harbor

Peekskill Riot of 1949

Peking Man

Penicillin

Perkins, Frances Coralie

Philanthropy

Philippine Independence

Philosophy

Physics

Pius XII

Polaroid Camera

Pollock, Paul Jackson

Potsdam Conference

Pound, Ezra Weston Loomis

Presidential Election of 1940

Presidential Election of 1944

Presidential Election of 1948

Presidential Succession Act of 1947

Prisons

Progressive Party

Prostitution

Protestantism

Psychology

Psychology (Child)

Puller, Lewis Burwell

Quebec Conference

Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz

Rabi, Isidor Isaac

Racial Passing

Radar

Radio

Railroads

Randolph, Asa Philip

Rankin, Jeannette

Rationing

Rayburn, Samuel Taliaferro

Reagan, Ronald Wilson

Real Estate Redlining and Blockbusting

Reed, Donna

Reed, Stanley F.

Reifel, Benjamin

Religion

Republican Party

Reuther, Walter

Rickey, Branch

Robinson, Jack Roosevelt

Robinson, Sugar Ray (Walker Smith Jr.)

Rockwell, Norman Percevel

Roman Catholicism

Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen

Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rosenberg, Julius

Roswell Incident

Route 66

Rustin, Bayard Taylor

Rutherford, Lucy Page Mercer

Salk, Jonas Edward

Sandburg, Carl

Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Sr.

Science

Seaborg, Glenn Theodore

Segregation

Selective Service Act

Selective Training and Service Act

Shelley V. Kraemer

Shirer, William Lawrence

Shockley, William Bradford

Sinatra, Francis Albert

Sleepy Lagoon Case

Smith, Gerald Lyman Kenneth

Smith, Margaret Madeline Chase

Smith Act

Socialist Party

Sociology

Soviet Atomic Bomb

Spam

Spock, Benjamin Mclane

Sports (College)

Sports (Professional)

Stalin, Joseph

Stalingrad

Stanwyck, Barbara

Steel Strike of 1946

Steinbeck, John

Stevenson, Adlai Ewing, II

Stieglitz, Alfred

Stimson, Henry Lewis

Stone, Harlan Fiske

Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich

Suburbia

Supreme Court

Synthetic Quinine (Chloroquine)

Taft, Robert A.

Taft-Hartley Act

Teheran Conference

Television

Teller, Edward

Thomas, Norman Mattoon

Tobacco and Cigarette Smoking

Tojo, Hideki

Tokyo Rose

Tourism

Tracy, Spencer

Tripartite Pact

Trout, Robert Albert

Truman, Bess (Elizabeth Wallace)

Truman, Harry S.

Truman, Margaret

Truman Doctrine

Tugwell, Rexford Guy

Tupper, Earl Silas

Tuskegee Airmen

Twenty-Second Amendment

United Automobile Workers (UAW)

United Mine Workers of America (UMW)

United Nations (UN)

United States V. Classic

United States V. Darby

United Steelworkers of America (USW)

Univac

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

V-E Day

V-J Day

Vandenberg, Arthur Hendrick

Venereal Disease

Venona

Victory Parades and Celebrations

Vinson, Frederick Moore

Von Braun, Wernher

Von Neumann, John

Voorhis Act

Wage and Price Controls

Wagner, Robert Ferdinand

Wainwright, Jonathan M.

Waksman, Selman Abraham

Wallace, Henry Agard

Walton County (Georgia) Lynching of 1946

War Films

War Propaganda

Warm Springs, Georgia (Little White House)

Warren, Earl

Warren, Robert Penn

Wechsler, James Arthur

Welk, Lawrence

Welles, Orson

Welles, Sumner

West Virginia V. Barnette

Wheeler, Burton Kendall

White, Elwyn Brooks

White, Harry Dexter

White, Walter

Williams, Theodore Samuel

Williams, Thomas Lanier “Tennessee”

Willkie, Wendell Lewis

Winter War

Wise, Stephen Samuel

Women in the Armed Forces

Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Women in the Factories

Women's Magazines

World War II in Europe

World War II in the Pacific

World War II on the Home Front

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Wright, Richard

Wright, Sewall Green

Yalta Conference

Yamamoto, Isoroku

Youth and Youth Culture

Zaharias, Mildred Didrikson “Babe”

Zale-Graziano Fights

Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich

Zionism

Zoot Suit Affair

Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma