The War
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945
Hitler's Minister of Propaganda was responsible for making some of the most sinister films of the era
Joseph Goebbels
This iconic male singer, known as "Ol' Blue Eyes," became a teen idol in the 1940s with hits like "I'll Never Smile Again"
Frank Sinatra
This iconic basketball league was established in 1949
National Basketball Association
United Nations
This country suffered the most deaths as a percentage of its 1939 population during the war.
Poland
The title of this 1942 classic translates to "white house"
Casablanca
This jazz legend and trumpet virtuoso, known for his distinctive gravelly voice, recorded the hit "What a Wonderful World" in the late 1940s.
Louis Armstrong
This famous African-American baseball player broke the color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
Jackie Robinson
The 22nd Amendment, proposed in 1947, imposed what on the Presidency.
Term Limits
The major battle widely considered to be the "turning point" of the war in the European Theater
Battle of Stalingrad
This 1941 Orson Welles film, often regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made, tells the story of a powerful newspaper magnate.
Citizen Kane
This song, performed by Bing Crosby in 1942, became the best-selling single of all time, with its nostalgic lyrics about dreaming of a snowy holiday season.
White Christmas
This major sporting event was canceled due to the war
1940 Summer Olympics
The year India and Pakistan gained Independence from the United Kingdom (it was in August)
1947
This Feb 1945 conference was the last held between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin that aimed to shape a postwar peace. (FDR would die before the next conference and Churchill would be voted out halfway through)
Yalta Conference
This beloved 1946 holiday classic stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who discovers the value of his life thanks to an angel named Clarence.
The Andrews Sisters became wartime icons with this 1941 song about a famous trumpet man from old Chicago way
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Babe Ruth
This infamous 1944 Supreme Court Case legalized Japanese Internment Camps in the United States
J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project and built the atom bombs at a laboratory in this city.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Known for his transatlantic accent, this '40s star was one of the biggest names in old Hollywood, starring in such classics as "The Philadelphia Story", "His Girl Friday" and later in many Hitchcock Films in the '50s like "North by Northwest", and "To Catch A Thief."
Cary Grant
This 1942 classic from The Mills Brothers was the number-one song of the 1940s and was at the top of the Billboard chart for 12 weeks.
Paper Doll
This team, known as the "Monuments Men," won the 1947 World Series, giving New York its first title since 1943.
New York Yankees
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