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The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League,
founded during World War II, showcases talented players
from around the country. |
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Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald begins her solo career in
the early 1940s and becomes one of America’s leading
jazz singers. |
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Known as “Rosie the Riveter,” this popular figure
is part of a government campaign to bring women into the
workplace during the war. |
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The Andrews Sisters are a popular singing group of the
1940s, with wartime hits such as “Boogie Woogie
Bugle Boy.” |
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| • Japan attacks
Pearl Harbor, and the United States enters World War II. |
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| • The Women’s
Army Corps (WAC) and Women
Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) are
established. Congress authorizes women to serve in the
U.S. Navy. |
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jet airplane is introduced. |
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| • As anti-Japanese
sentiment increases, Japanese Americans are placed in
internment
camps. |
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Girls Professional Baseball League is founded. |
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| • The United
Nations is established; Eleanor Roosevelt is appointed
as a U.S. delegate. |
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Japan surrender, ending World War II |
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| • High jumper Alice
Coachman becomes the first African American woman to win
an Olympic gold medal. |
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• Mildred
“Babe” Didrikson and other women create
the Ladies Professional Golf Tour.
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