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| October 2007 |
| Billie Silvey |
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| 1940 |
| Hitler Occupies Paris British Evacuated from Dunkirk |
| 1941 |
| Pearl Harbor Attack Draws U.S. into War Penicillin Aids Survival |
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| Headlines of the 40s |
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| 1942 |
| Automobile Production Ceases War Spreads to Africa--El Alamein |
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| U. S. Recaptures Pacific Islands Food Rationing Instituted |
| 1943 |
| 1944 |
| Allies Land at Normandy Computers Developed |
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| 1945 |
| Roosevelt Dies Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima |
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| 1946 |
| War Crimes Prosecuted at Nuremberg |
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| 1947 |
| Marshall Plan Rebuilds Europe Cold War Begins Commercial Television Available to the Public House Un-American Activities Committee Begins Hearings |
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| 1948 |
| Ghandi Assassinated |
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| 1949 |
| NATO Established |
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