istoryworld
Events relating to america
Gene Kelly makes his name on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey
Ernest Hemingway publishes the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, set in the Spanish Civil War
John Ford directs Henry Fonda in the film of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Charlie Chaplin ridicules Hitler in The Great Dictator, the first film in which he speaks coherent dialogue
An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City
US author Carson McCullers publishes her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
In To the Finland Station Edmund Wilson discusses the development of socialism and revolution, culminating in Lenin and Trotsky
US choreographer Agnes de Mille creates Black Ritual for American Ballet Theatre
President Roosevelt, campaigning for a third term, asssures Americans that he will not send their sons to fight in Europe's war
The US government provides 50 destroyers to boost the British escort of convoys in the Atlantic
F.D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third US presidential term, albeit it with a considerably reduced share of the vote
Patrick Henry, the first of the US Liberty ships, is soon followed by more than 2700 others, built at record speed
Scott FitzGerald's final and incomplete novel, The Last Tycoon, is published posthumously
Greta Garbo receives terrible reviews for Two Faced Woman, which turns out to be her last film and the beginning of a long retirement
Agee and Evans give a warm personal view of America in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
The US army invests in a significant new vehicle, placing an order for 16,000 jeeps
Citizen Kane is written, directed and starred in by 26-year-old Orson Welles
John Huston, for his first film, directs Humphrey Bogart in the third screen adaptation of The Maltese Falcon
US author Eudora Welty publishes her first collection of stories, A Curtain of Green
The US Congress declares war on Japan and President Roosevelt endorses the order
President Roosevelt defines to Congress his concept of Four Freedoms – of speech, of worship, from want, from fear
Congress passes the Lend-lease Act, enabling President Roosevelt to provide much needed help to US allies
Roosevelt appoints Douglas MacArthur commander of US forces in the Far East
Roosevelt and Churchill publish a joint Atlantic Charter, foreseeing a future free from 'Nazi tyranny'
US choreographer Merce Cunningham begins a long creative partnership with the composer John Cage
