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=Table of Contents: =
 * =﻿Life in the 1940's =
 * 1) ==== Economics of the 1940's ====
 * 2) ==== Family Life ====
 * 3) ==== Teenage Life ====
 * 4) ==== Education ====
 * 5) ==== Fashion ====
 * 6) ==== Inventions and Enovations ====
 * 7) ==== Citations ====

1. Economics of the 1940's
** After the war the Americans were in debt $43 billion ** Table 1: Federal Spending and Military Spending during World War II(dollar values in billions of constant 1940 dollars)
 * People unemployed in 1940- 8,120,000 **


 * |||| ** Nominal GDP ** |||||| ** Federal Spending ** |||||||| ** Defense Spending ** ||
 * ** Year ** || total $ || % increase || total $  || % increase || % of GDP || total $ || % increase || % of GDP || % of federal spending ||
 * 1940 || 101.4  ||   || 9.47  ||   || 9.34%  || 1.66  ||   || 1.64%  || 17.53%  ||
 * 1941 || 120.67  || 19.00%  || 13.00  || 37.28%  || 10.77%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">6.13  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">269.28%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">5.08%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">47.15%  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">1942 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">139.06  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">15.24%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">30.18  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">132.15%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">21.70%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">22.05  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">259.71%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">15.86%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">73.06%  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">1943 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">136.44  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">-1.88%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">63.57  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">110.64%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">46.59%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">43.98  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">99.46%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">32.23%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">69.18%  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">1944 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">174.84  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">28.14%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">72.62  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">14.24%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">41.54%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">62.95  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">43.13%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">36.00%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">86.68%  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">1945 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">173.52  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">-0.75%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">72.11  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">-0.70%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">41.56%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">64.53  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">2.51%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">37.19%  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 160%; text-align: right;">89.49%  ||


 * "<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">War production brought the Americans out of the depression."
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">﻿ ﻿ Vehicle companies stoped the production of cars and trucks and mainly focused on tanks and aircrafts.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">"The Nation tried to conserve products such as gasoline and food for the soldiers."


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The price on gas was raised so there would be more gas for the military.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">"6 million women took the places of men in every day work."


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">By the 1940’s 55% of the Nation had indoor plumbing, this caused the demand of indoor plumbing products to increase.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">"The average salary for an American was $1,299 a year."

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__﻿2. Family Life__
Family life in the 1940's was pretty much the same for all families. The father was usually employed and the mother stayed home to take care of the house and manage the budget while the children went to school. Families had close relationships and they always sat down at the dinner table and connected with one another, Sundays were the days when the family could spend quality time with each other. Normally after school the children would go home and change their clother and go to work. they would make 25 cents and our with equalled $5 a week, this was considered to be good money for the family. when the father left for war the mother took the husdands job and ran the house, once he got back she went back to the old routine.



__ 3. Teenage Life __

<span style="color: #2d0080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">In the 1940s girls could not date until they were 16 and always had to be home early. The parents met the young man and to be a good match he would need to have good manners and bring their daughter home at the time agreed upon. Girls that smoked or had sex got bad reputations and were classified as being "easy" and snubbed by her peers and neighbors. Teenagers were not called teenagers untill the late 1940's. some of the most popular dacing style was the "Jitter Bug".



__ ﻿4. Education __ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 170%;">In the early 1940's education wasn't very important and organized but by the end of the war it became more organised and it gaind greater value. Most of the schools in the 1940's were either boy or girl schools, but there was some mixed ones aswell. Eduaction was extrict and unsual. The boys that went to school were trained hard in physical education to keep them inshape for war. Girls were taught how to dressed, hats, beauty culture and how to do laundry properly. Primary and secondary education were better organized and properly funded; higher education was not a mandartory and they only offered aproximately 274 subjects only 59 of them academic courses. Segregation was a problem education faced in the 1940's becuase most black schools were under funded. Teacher's pay was "exceddingly low, and social prestige was often lacking


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 170%;">The age at which a person was to enter high school was also the age at which a person could go to work to create a larger income for their family. In this present time, nearly 80% of people in the US actually graduate with a high school diploma. According to the 2007 CPS report on educational attainment says “this reflects more than a three-fold increase in high school attainment and more than a five-fold increase in college attainment since the Census Bureau first collected educational attainment data in 1940.” []



__5. Fashion__
In the 1940’s the cost of clothing was high therefore women preferred undated fashions that would last longer. Some of the fabrics used were: beautiful tweeds; soft fleeces in cashmere, camel's hair, or wool; and fine worsted jerseys and tweed-like worsteds for suits and dresses. For women the length of their skirts was a subject of controversy among designers and even men in 1949 Skirts inched up to13-14 in. from the floor and then to 12-13 in.. Shoulders maintained their rounded, natural line, achieved through cut and slight padding, The waistline, which had been sharply defined for two years, eased up to a more natural line which followed a slightly flatter figure. The coat-dress is a double-breasted button-front dress which resembled a coat it was one of the most wearable and popular dresses of the year.

The most popular colors used in 1949 were red and blue. Navy blue predominated over any blue. Though blues and reds towered above all other colors, several others had fashion importance. Taupe was especially used in suits and coats. White pique was worn for daytime and evening.

__﻿6. Inventions and Enovations__
<span style="background-color: #b8fe67; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The 1940’s were a very war torn time. With World War 2 starting in 1939, there was a lot of affects on the economy, good and bad. The US government spent over 350 billion dollars on the war effort. A great amount of this money was used to aid in research and development. During the war there were many new inventions created to be an advantage in the war. One of the most famous war time inventions was The Atomic Bomb. This invention ended the war, as it was intended to. When the war ended in 1945 the government did not have to pour much more money into the war effort. Leaving money to be used in research and innovating.

<span style="background-color: #b8fe67; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Below is a list of inventions that were invented in the 1940’s during and after the war:

<span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">mathematical equations. || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">into a metal box. Spencer discovered that the new invention cooked food at a r <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">apid rate. Little did Spencer know he had just stumbled upon a multimillion <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">dollar opportunity. || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> || []
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Year invented || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Inventor || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Invention/description || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Picture Reference ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1940 || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Peter Goldmark || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Color Television: designed after the earlier colorless 1928 model. Color television was so high tech that only the richest of riches could buy one. || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:http://www.tvworthwatching.com/blog/2008/07/31/IMG_2757.jpg width="161" height="153"]] ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1940 || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Willy's Truck Company || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The challenge was set out by the army in 1940, to build a fast and cost efficient transport vehicle. The company had to have a working prototype built in 49 days. The new lightweight vehicle nicknamed the “jeep” passed army standards and was quickly adopted by the army and used in WW2. || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:http://www.wwwk.co.uk/images/culture/inventions/jeep.jpg caption="The Jeep"]] ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1942 || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Electronic Digital Computer was created as a way of calculating various
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1943 || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Richard and Betty James || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Richard was trying to create a new invention. He was using torque springs when he accidentally knocked one on the floor. Richard was inspired by the way it bounced across the floor so he patented the “Slinky” as a toy. || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:http://peterahall.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/slinky.jpg width="157" height="177"]] ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1943 || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">James Wright || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">James Wright was working on a new invention. He was trying to make a synthetic rubber. His new creation didn’t meet his standards so he put it away for a while. Later on the new invention called “Silly Putty” was sold as a retro way to keep kids entertained. || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:http://www.highestfive.com/wp-content/uploads/putty.jpg width="177" height="146"]] ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1945 || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Robert Oppenheimer || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Atomic Bomb was created in 1945 it was called the Manhattan Project. Several scientists worked on the project they were Robert Oppenheimer, David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs and Edward Teller. || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQcMProP8VDKXxStY9FOcDhI8b3za28YROuBU5SsqOpZOFVaySD width="184" height="175"]] ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1946 || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dr.Pency Spencer || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dr. Spencer created the microwave oven by feeding an electromagnetic field
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1947 || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Earl Tupper || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Earl Tupper created “Tupperware” using a by-product of refining fossil fuels. Earl would purify the polyethylene and form it into light weight, air tight, re-sealable containers. It was later sold as containers for preserving food. || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQu-i243tlU4_2wJxsuRvIMftFxvtW6jjTXJEA2P8Aew3vLh4A-DQ width="197" height="169"]] ||
 * <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1948 || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In the 1870’s William Russell Frisbie, a baker in Warren, Connecticut, put his name on the inside of every pie tin he made. Soon it was discovered by people that throwing a pie plate around was fun game because of the way the tin seemed to glide through the air. In 1948 Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni decided that there was much interest in this area of toys that seemingly flew through the skies. They later patented the “Frisbee”, a circular, plastic disk with curled edges. They two inventers named the toy after William Russell Frisbie. || <span style="background-color: #fcf9ba; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[[image:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkK8cwyAJ4LT4Ab6iKI_CNfHmSQIiLTMnaXIhd-Wz4K8gPjyXi]] ||

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