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 * [[image:http://bioproj.sabr.org/bp_ftp/images3/RuthBabe.jpg align="right"]] Babe Ruth or George Herman Ruth, most known as “The Bambino .Babe Ruth was an American major league base ball from 1914 - 1935. He broke into the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher. But after he was sol to the New York Yankees in 1919 he was put full time as a right fielder. And then he became one of leagues most prolific hitter.**


 * Babe Ruth won four world series titles during his tenure with the team. After a short time with the Boston Braves in 1935 Babe Ruth retired in 1936 . Ruth became one of the first five players to be selected to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Then he was remembered as one of the greatest sports heroes in America culture. He was named the greatest baseball player in history in various rankings.**


 * Babe Ruth got married to Helen Woodford in 1914. They were reportedly separated around 1926. Helen died in a fire in Watertown Massachusetts on January 11,1929. Ruth had two daughters. Dorothy Ruth was adopted by babe and Helen. When Babe married Claire Merritt Hodgson he adopted Julia Hodgson. At the age of 53yr Babe Ruth died of pneumonia on August 16 1948.**

=Frank Sinatra=


 * born December 12, 1915, Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S. he was a child or Italian immigrants Martin and Natalie "Dolly" Sinatra. When he was a kid his uncle gave him a ukulele, and on hot summer night he loved to go outside and sing while playing the instrument. That was his first musical experience.**


 * He went to a talent show called Major Bowes and his amateur our in 1939, singing with a group called “Hoboken four”. after this he sang on night clubs on new jersey hoping to attract the “swing era”. in 1939, he began working in a radio station WNEW in New York city. In that same year he married Nancy Barbato and later on have 3 children.**


 * After 7 month working on WNEW with Harry James, Sinatra joined Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, causing career to jump. They were the most popular orchestra on the land from 1940 to 1942. His career increase and broke the world record of people on a concert. At the age of 88 he was recording, and became instant best-sellers. But his health continued to deteriorate, died on los angeles California the evening of may 14, 1998.**

=**Walter Elias Disney**=


 * Born on 5 December 1901, Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a man who transformed the entertainment industry, into what we know today.**


 * Walt was a man who loved history, his views and visions, came from the fond memory of yesteryear, and persistence for the future. As the result of this he didn't give technology to us piece by piece, he connected it to his ongoing mission of making life more enjoyable, and fun. This was a man who could take the dreams of America, and make them come true.**


 * His first and most known cartoon was Mickey mouse, who $47.38 an every 4.2 second. Everything seemed to be perfect for several years. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and that same day, the army moved into the Disney Studio in order to house the anti-aircraft companies. The Navy Department phone Walt and asked if the Disney Studios would make a film to help gunners determine whether airplanes belonged to friend or foe. This was Walt's only instructions. Walt and his staff made the training film and then went on to make a short with Donald Duck for the Treasury Department, which encouraged Americans to pay their taxes.**



=**Franklin D. Roosevelt**= ==**Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32 president of the United States of America. He started as a president from (1933-1945).He worked closely with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in leading the Allies against Germany and Japan in World War II, but died just as victory was in sight. He lead the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.**==

==**Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York. He grow up in an atmosphere of privilege were he didn’t need anything like other children’s. Roosevelt was a kid that took a lot of trips to Europe. Roosevelt attended Groton School. That was an Episcopal boarding school in Massachusetts. 90% of the students were from families on the social register.**==











= = = = = = = = = = = = =Evaluation of the 1940’s=

===In the 1940’s WW2 dominated the world. Most of the smart people and artist fled from Europe to the United States from Hitler and the holocaust, bringing new ideas. War production pulled us out of the great depression. Women were needed to replace men who had gone off to war. Rationing affected the food we ate, the clothes we wore, the toys with which children played. This was so the people fighting the war could also have plenty to eat.=== ===Another thing that changed the United States and the world in the 1940’s was the attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. There were scrap drivers for steel, tin, paper and rubber. These were a source of supplies and gave people a means of supporting the war effort. In April, 1945, FDR died, and President Harry Truman celebrated V-E Day on May 8, 1945. Japan surrendered only after two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States ended World War II as a world superpower only to be challenged by the USSR. While the USSR seized the defeated countries, the US applied the Marshall Plan, helping devastated countries to rebuild and rejoin the world economy. Fights over belief and control led to the Cold War. Communism was treated as a contagious disease, and anyone who had contact with it was under suspicion.=== ===In 1947, commercial television with 13 stations became available to the public. Computers were developed during the early forties. The digital computer, named ENIAC, weighing 30 tons and standing two stories high, was completed in 1945.===

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