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  2. California during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Map of California California in United States. California during World War II was a major contributor to ... California's population in 1940 was 6,907,387 and by 1950 ...

  3. History of California (1900–present) - Wikipedia

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    There were not enough jobs to go around. After World War II and the Great Depression, there was a rapidly increasing buildup of United States workers in California as wartime industries boomed. Most of these workers were from other states as they settled in California and increased the California population to 10,586,223 by 1950.

  4. 1940 United States census - Wikipedia

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    The 1940 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 132,164,569, an increase of 7.6 percent over the 1930 population of 122,775,046 people. The census date of record was April 1, 1940.

  5. List of U.S. states and territories by historical population

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    This is a list of U.S. states and territories by historical population, ... California: 1850 92,597 379,994 ... its map or its region label to highlight it (and in ...

  6. List of countries by population in 1939 - Wikipedia

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    Population distribution by country in 1939. This is a list of countries by population in 1939 (including any dependent, occupied or colonized territories for empires), providing an approximate overview of the world population before World War II.

  7. History of the mapping of California - Wikipedia

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    In 1841, Cadwalader Ringgold, an officer in the United States Navy, spent twenty days surveying the San Francisco Bay watershed as a member of the United States Exploring Expedition In 1849, Cadwalader Ringgold began a more comprehensive survey the San Francisco Bay region, [11] the Sacramento River, and parts of the American and created several maps which included depth sounding information ...

  8. Manzanar - Wikipedia

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    Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945.

  9. California - Wikipedia

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    California's Asian American population is estimated at 7.1 million, constituting a third of the nation's total. California's Native American population of 504,000 is the most of any state, with 103,030 identifying as Non-Hispanic and belonging mostly to the Indigenous peoples of California.