• 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

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http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301630.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940s

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