The MOST important events of 1942...?

Question

I have to do a time line for a school project. I got the year of 1942. I understand that the war was the biggest event happening but I would really like to include some other kinds of events such as movie releases, music releases, births/deaths, inventions, artists, ANYTHING! Please give me some MAJOR events from 1942 and their dates. thank you! These can include the war, but please only give the BIGGEST war events involving America!

Answer 1

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Following the US entering the war , the mobilization of war efforts were quick and effective with car makers and other manufacturers changing to production of weapons of war . The war also created a new breed of movies with war themes , and one of the most popular songs of all time "White Christmas" from Bing Crosby first appeared in the movie "Holiday Inn" . The US sentiment towards Japanese following Pearl Harbor showed itself when 120,000 people of Japanese descent were sent internment camps. In late 1941 and early 1942 the war in the pacific was not going well with America losing Guam, Hong Kong, Wake, Singapore and the Philippines , but in late 1942 the US started to turn round the war with major offences at Midway and The Coral Sea. And meanwhile the allied forces in Europe invaded North Africa in November.

February 26 - 14th Academy Awards ceremony

April 13 - The FCC minimum programming time required of TV stations is cut from 15 hours to four hours a week during the war.

May 20 - First African-American seamen taken into US Navy.

June 12 - Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday

August 9 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces.

August 9 -Start, led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in n**i-occupied Kiev. Against all odds, they win 5-3. Eight of them are later arrested and tortured, and at least four are killed.

October 16 - Hurricane and flooding in Bombay - 40,000 dead.

October 23 - Award-winning composer and Hollywood songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory") is among the 12 people killed in the mid-air collision between an American Airlines DC-3 airliner and a U.S. Army bomber near Palm Springs, California.

October 28 - The Alaska Highway is completed

November 26 - The movie Casablanca premièred at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.

November 28 - In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club kills 491 people.

December 1 - Gasoline rationing begins in the United States.

Other things that happened during 1942 are:

-Grand Coulee Dam finished in Columbia River.

-DDT first used as a pesticide.

-C. S. Lewis publishes The Screwtape Letters.

-Lions became extinct in Iran by this date.

Answer 2

1942 -

Japanese forces take Manila, Philippines.

General Douglas MacArthur leaves Philippines, arrives in Australia.

United States forces on Bataan peninsula surrender April 9th. "Bataan Death March"

Battle of the Coral Sea, 7-8 May 1942

Battle of Midway, 4-7 June 1942.

Battle of Guadalcanal Island (Solomon Islands), 1942-1943.



Popular Films

Road to Morocco, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour

Casablanca

Bambi

Mrs. Miniver

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Holiday Inn

Academy Award, Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Music

" White Christmas " Bing Crosby

" Deep in the heart of Texas " by Alvino Ray

RCA Victor sprays gold over Glenn Miller's million-copy-seller Chattanooga Choo Choo, creating the first "gold record."

Technology

Worlds first Nuclear Reactor Built in Chicago

Manhattan Project Started

Instant Coffee Introduced

Harvard University chemist Louis F. Fieser invents napalm, a jelly-like mixture of gasoline and palm oils that sticks to its target until it burns out.

Sports

World Series: St. Louis Cardinals d. NY Yankees (4-1)

Stanley Cup: Toronto d. Detroit (4-3)

Kentucky Derby Champion: Shut Out

NCAA Basketball Championship: Stanford d. Dartmouth (53-38)

Answer 3

August 7th 1942, the U.S invasion of Guadalcanal, the first Island to be invaded by the U.S on their Island hopping campagin.

The British defeat the Germans at El Alamein in North Africa to turn the tide in their favour in the middle East.

Enrico Fermi sets up the first Atomic reactor in Chicago.

Declaration of United Nations signed by 26 Allied Nations.

Answer 4

Miltary wise I would say the battles of Midway and Gudalcanal for the USA. For the world, Midway, Stalingrad, and El Almien. They were all Axis defeats and are considered to mark the high water tide of the Axis in WWII.......

Answer 5

Battle of Midway - The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle, widely regarded as the most important one of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. It took place from June 4 to June 7, 1942. Four Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser were sunk in exchange for one American aircraft carrier and a destroyer. The heavy losses permanently weakened the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), in particular the four fleet carriers and over 200 experienced naval aviators. Japan was unable to keep pace with American shipbuilding and aircrew training programs in providing replacements. By 1942, the United States was three years into a massive ship building program intended to make the navy larger than Japan's. As a result of Midway, strategically, the U.S. Navy was able to seize the initiative in the Pacific and go on the offensive. Japan essentially lost the war at that battle.

Great movies that came out that year:

Bambi (1942)

Casablanca   (1942)

Cat People   (1942)

For Me and My Gal   (1942)

Mrs. Miniver   (1942)

Tales of Manhattan   (1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy   (1942)

Popular Music Of 1942

White Christmas Bing Crosby

Births:

January 17 Muhammad Ali, American boxer

Deaths:

November 5 - George M. Cohan, American songwriter and entertainer (b. 1878)