Transcript The Amazing 40 - hjm

By: Nathaniel Roberts
1940- Leon Trotsky assassinated
 Assassinated on August 21,1940
 Died at 60 and was assassinated by a Stalinist
Agent
 Also was attempted to be assassinated on May
24,1940 at his home but survived the attack
Leon Trotsky facts
 Leader in the Russian Revolution in 1917
 Founder and Commander of the Red Army
 Expelled from the communist party and
deported from the Soviet Union
 Escaped from Prison Twice
1941- Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
 Pearl Harbor was attacked on Sunday
December 7th,1941 by the Japanese
 The attack started at 7:53 a.m. and lasted
until 9:45 a.m.
 2,335 service men and 68 civilians were killed,
and 1,178 wounded
Pearl Harbor attack
 On December 8th the U.S. declared war on Japan, and on
December 11th Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S
 This attack brought the U.S into the War
 President Roosevelt called December 7, 1941 “ a date that
which will live in infamy”, which was is one of the
Presidents most famous quotes
1942-Harrison Ford born
 Born on July 13,1942 in Chicago Illinois
 Ford then later became one of the worlds most
famous actors
 Ford starred in some of the worlds most famous
films including: The Star Wars Films which were
“A New Hope”, “The Empire Strikes Back”, and
“Return of the Jedi”. He also starred as Indiana
Jones , and starred as the main character in
“ The Fugitive”.
1942-Harrison Ford
 Has won 1 Golden Globe, and 1 Oscar
 Harrison Ford is currently 69 years old,
and lives in New York City. Ford also
maintains a 800 acre ranch in Jackson
Hole, Wyoming
1943- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
 Jews at Warsaw Ghetto learned of the final plan to deport the rest
of the Jews in the ghetto to the Treblinka death camp to be killed.
 After learning about the Final Deportation, Mordecai Anielewicz
founded the Z.O.B which means Jewish Fighting Organization
 On April 19, 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began when German
Troops entered the Ghetto to deport surviving Jews

Warsaw Ghetto Jews Fought and Held out against German Troops
for 27 days
 On May 8th the Z.O.B headquarters was captured and on May 16th
the German Troops announced that the fighting was over and The
Ghetto was to be burned down
1944-D-Day
 On June 6th,1944 Americans and other allied troops landed
on 5 beach heads in Normandy to start the invasion called DDay
 The success of D-Day was the Beginning of the end for the
Germans
 By August almost all of France had been captured and under
control of the Americans and allies
 Hitler was forced to fight a two-front war against the
Russians on the East and the Americans, British, Canadians,
and French on the West
 Within a year Hitler committed suicide and the War in
Germany was over
1944- D-Day facts
 One of the 5 landings at Omaha Beach had
one of the most difficult landings,
navigation problems resulted in many men
drowning before the reached the land
 9,000 allied troops were killed or wounded
 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircrafts were
involved in the D-Day invasion
1945-Atomic bombs dropped
 The first atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th,1945
 The bomb was dropped in order to speed up
the end of World War 2, 70,000 died
immediately and another 70,000 died in the
next five years from the Bombs radiation
 2/3rds of Hiroshima was destroyed
1945- Atomic Bombs dropped
 On August 9th, 1945 just 3 days after the
Hiroshima bomb, a second bomb was dropped
on Nagasaki after Japan did not surrender
 The Nagasaki bomb was considered to be
stronger than the Hiroshima bomb but the
mountainous and rough terrain caused the
bomb to not do as much damage
 40% of Nagasaki was destroyed and 70,000
people died
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb facts
 The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at
8:15 a.m. and exploded 1,900 feet
above the city
 The Hiroshima bomb was nicknamed
“little Boy”
 The Nagasaki bomb was dropped at
11:02 a.m. and exploded 1,650 feet
above the city
1946- Bikinis Introduced
 On July 5th,1946 the bikini swimsuit was introduced by a
French man named Louis Reard
 The 1946 summer was the first war free summer in years
and Louis Reard wanted to create a product that matched
the liberated and good mood of people
 It was advertised as basically a bra top and two inverted
triangles of cloth connected by string
 He had a hard time finding a professional model who
would model his invention but then he finally came across
Micheline Bernardini
1946- Bikini introduced
 After the debut the bikini was a hit
 The Bikini didn’t become popular in Europe
until the 1950s and didn’t become popular in
America until the Early 1960s
 The Bikini grew more popular after Brian
Hyland came out with the song “itsy bitsy
teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini” in 1960
and the popularity of the bikini still continues
to grow
1947- Jackie Robinson Becomes first
African American in MLB
 On April 15,1947 , Jackie Robinson became the first
black in the Major League baseball
 He played the historic first game with the Brooklyn
Dodgers
 25,000 people watched this game in person at Eobets
Field in Brooklyn, New York
 He played 151 games and hit 1,518 times before
retiring from the MLB
 Jackie Robinson died on October 24th,1972 at age 53
from heart problems
Jackie Robinson awards/facts
 Awarded first ever Rookie of the Year
award
 Named the National League’s Most Valuable
Player
 Lead the Dodgers into a World Series
Victory in 1955
 His number “42” was retired in 1997
1948- Babe Ruth dies
 In November 1946 Babe Ruth entered the
hospital after suffering monstrous pain
above his left eye. It was cancer and he
went through surgery, but not all of the
cancer was removed
 The cancer later grew back and Babe
Ruth died on August 16th,1948 at age 53
Babe Ruth Facts
 Born as George Herman Ruth Jr. on February 6th,
1895
 Won 3 world series, 2 with the Red Sox and 1 with
the New York Yankees
 Known as one of the greatest left handed pitchers
and the greatest baseball player of all time
 Inducted into the Baseball half of fame
1949- Harry Truman inaugurated as
President
 On January 20th 1949, Harry Truman was
inaugurated as the 33rd president of the
United States
 Harry Truman won the election by a 4
percent difference in votes which was 49
percent to Thomas E. Devey's 45 percent
 This was Harry Truman’s second term as
president
1949- Harry Truman Presidency Facts
 Harry Truman was best known during his
Presidency for defeating Germany, being one of the
founders of the United Nations, having the Marshall
Plan passed, and authorizing the atomic bombs to
be dropped on Japan
 Truman authorized the atomic bombs to be
dropped on Japan to speed up the end of World War
2
 Harry Truman died on December 26th,1972 in
Kansas