1940’sDecade TimelineBy Alysha Brace

Inventions1942 Tupperware

1946 Microwave Oven

1946 ENIAC (computer)

1947 Colored Television

Historical Events1941 Pearl Harbor Attack

1944 GI Bill of Rights

1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki

1945 United Nations Charter

Medical Advances1941 Catheterization

1941 Penicillin

1944 Eye Bank

1948 Vitamin B-12

1940’s Timeline

1940 1949

1944 1941

1942 1946

1947 1948

•Pearl Harbor Attack•Catheterization•Penicillin

•Tupperware

•GI Bill of Rights•Eye Bank •Microwave Oven

•ENIAC

1945

•Hiroshima & Nagasaki•UN Charter •Colored Television

•Vitamin B-12

FCS Profession Related Articles

• Personality and Environment

• Community Nutrition Programs

• Social Security

• Helping Young People Solve their Problems

• Improving Our Health Facilities

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of Home Economics. 38:8. Retrieved September 21, 2009, from http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4732504_38_008.

American Home Economics Association. (1944, April). Helping young people solve their problems. Journal of Home Economics. 36:4. Retrieved September 21, 2009, from http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4732504_36_004.

American Home Economics Association. (1944, December). Improving our health facilities. Journal of Home Economics. 36:10. Retrieved September 21, 2009, from http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4732504_36_010.

American Home Economics Association. (1945, February). Research in family life in Nebraska. Journal of Home Economics. 37:2. Retrieved September 21, 2009, from http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4732504_37_002.

American Home Economics Association. (1943, March). Social security that serves the home. Journal of Home Economics. 35:3. Retrieved September 21, 2009, from http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4732504_35_003.

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