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• Born – 1925-1942
• Youth – 1930’s
• The great depression
• World War II
• The Korean War
Timeline
• Ambitious
• Affluence
• Often seeking achievement
• Power & status
• Patriotic
• Activism
• Morally confused
• Hard working
• Married at a young age
• Family orientated
• Conventional
• Domesticity
Characteristics
• Swing music started in the early 1920’s to 1945 and was a very popular type of genre music, that everyone would love to dance to.
Music of the Silent Generation
• Jazz during the 1940’s was known as bop.
• Jazz was a music genre that was well known for its spontaneity and emotion.
• 1950’s jazz was known as cool which was a style of music that was much similar to swing.
• Beatnik Music was an innovative style of music that was revolved around any genre.
• Beatnik music is known to be based on a poem set on a beat.
• Rock n’ Roll started in the early 1950’s.
• Rock n’ Roll was classified as dancing music.
• Rock n’ Roll was referred to single beat jive or Rockabilly
• Texaco Star Theatre• The Goldberg's• Suspense• Toat of the town• The ford television Theater• Fireside theatre
TV Shows In the 1940’s
• Long dresses with tight waists
• Low-heeled shoes
• Hair was curled high
• Long Skirts
• Convertible Suit
• Jackets were worn for formal attires at night.
Women’s Fashion
• The zoot suit was normally worn.
• Navy or black suits with plain white shirts and ties
• The esquire jacket
• Brimmed fedoras
Men’s Fashion
• Infant mortality
• Cancer
• Heart disease
• Stroke
• Many troops suffered from infantile paralysis
• syphilis
Health Issues
• World war 11 (1939-1945)
• The Nazi Movement
• The holocaust
• Battle of Stalingrad
ic bombings of Hiroshima and
Poltical Events
• DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS
• DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS
• THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME THEORY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY IN MATHEMATICS
• RADIOCARBON DATING WAS PRODUCED BY WILARD LIBBY
Science in the 1940s
• Development of commercial television
• Invention of the microwave oven
• The Z3 which was an automatic computing machine
• Development of radar
• The development of the jet aircraft.
• Radio
• Cameras
• Telephones
Technology
http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/socpsy01/music/silent%20music.htm
http://www.1940s-fashions.co.uk/
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade40.html#fashion
http://mens-fashion.lovetoknow.com/Mens_Fashion_in_the_1940's
http://www.step-by-step-dance.com/rock-n-roll.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301630.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940s
http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/1940s/politicalevents.html