Franklin D Roosevelt, Thirty-second U.S. President
(1933-1945)
Statehood
48 Continental United States of America, see 1959 for next addition
Education: Enrollment down
High School enrollment was 6.7 million in 1941 down to 5.5 million in 1944.
College enrollment of civilian students down 50%
Source: Foundations of American Education,
Sixth Edition page 164 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010
see
1946 for next event...
Military:
Holocaust
was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi
regime during
World War II
- Technology:
Mark I
calculator completed
Harvard University and IBM joined up to build The Mark I. The 51-foot
long, 8-foot high device weighted 5 tons and contained about 500 miles
of wire. It could perform any number of mathematical equations.
(See 1941 for previous computer science
advancement.)
(See 1945 for next improvement in computer science.)
Source: Brainpop.com Click on
Technology then Computer History