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This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. When this tag was added, its readable prose size was 19300 words. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (July 2023) Douglas MacArthur MacArthur in 1945 Governor of the Ryukyu Islands In office 15 December 1950 – 11 April 1951 ...
Henry A. Wallace to war's end; Secretary of the Treasury. Henry Morgenthau Jr. pre-war to June 1945; Fred M. Vinson to war's end; Secretary of Labor. Frances Perkins pre-war to June 1945; Schwellenback to war's end; Secretary of War. Henry L. Stimson throughout the war; Secretary of the Navy. Frank Knox pre-war to May 1944; James V. Forrestal ...
World War Two's effect on agriculture was the main issue considered. [24] When New York District Attorney and future Governor Thomas E. Dewey traveled to Minneapolis during the 1940 presidential campaign he was introduced by Stassen. [ 25 ]
During World War II, the proportion of African American men employed in manufacturing positions rose significantly. [346] In response to Roosevelt's policies, African Americans increasingly defected from the Republican Party during the 1930s and 1940s, becoming an important Democratic voting bloc in several Northern states.
World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939 [1] [2] with the German invasion of Poland and the United Kingdom and France's declaration of war on Germany two days later on 3 September 1939. Dates for the beginning of the Pacific War include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] or the earlier Japanese ...
9 states and 2 territories hold their gubernatorial elections during a presidential election year (although Puerto Rico and American Samoa do not hold an election for president). Recent years are 2004 , 2008 , 2012 , 2016 , and 2020 .
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897.He was the first Democrat to win election to the presidency after the Civil War and the first of two U.S. presidents to serve nonconsecutive terms.
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...