A new exhibit at the National WWII Museum highlights the work of Tom Lea, who drew and painted the conflict for LIFE Magazine

With much of the decade dominated by World War II, the 1940s have not gone down in history as the happiest of times. But the '40s had much more to them than war. Swing dancing, jazz, fabulous fashion, classic film, and even the first computer all helped to define the decade as well. People of the 1940s did the best they could to smile through the tough times. Take a look at these photos from '40s to see what we mean. 1. Miss America contestants in 1945. 2. 1940s sweethearts. 3. Trying to stay cool in the summer, NYC, 1943. 4. Two sailors celebrating the end of WWII. 5. Ladies looking fabulous on their bikes. 6. Salvador Dali painting "The Face of War", 1941. 7. "Skate to work, save gas". 8. Red Cross women dancing with soldiers. 9. At the Venice Pier Fun House in 1940. 10. Swing dancing in the 1940s. 11. 1940s men hamming it up in Victorian bathing suits. 12. A group of 1940s students doing their schoolwork while drinking some Coca Cola. 13. 1940s Navy diver. 14. Cool camera trickery in 1945. 15. Danish explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife Dagmar Freuchen Gale, 1947. 16. Tattoo parlor, 1942. 17. Marlyn Wescoff and Ruth Lichterman reprogramming ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, in 1946.

A fun adaptation of the popular kids card game, Multiplication War is perfect for revising and assessing learning about times tables.

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Get a look at World War 2 rationing with these rationing meal plans. They come straight from a Food Fight for Freedom by Home Economics Institute's booklet issued during the war to help homemakers.

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Leonard Cohen appeared in Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, to sing for the troops, and inspiring the song Lover, Lover, Lover.

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Are you ready to deepen your prayer life like never before? These 10 war room Scriptures to pray over yourself will equip you for doing spiritual warfare.

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14th Connecticut Private Oliver Dart was grievously wounded at Fredericksburg on Dec. 13, 1862. (Image courtesy Alan Crane) A tattered CDV of Oliver Dart was found among papers in his pension file at the National Archives. Like this blog on Facebook | Follow me on Twitter Within a year of his regiment's ill-fated charge at Fredericksburg, Oliver Dart Jr. faced another great trial: a sitting for a photograph at a studio on Main Street in Hartford, Conn. The resulting carte-de-visite, found in the 14th Connecticut veteran's pension file in the National Archives, is difficult to view. Bundled in a heavy coat, the blue-eyed veteran with black hair and thick eyebrows stared at the Kellogg Brothers' photographer. A mangled lower jaw, mouth and nose — the awful effects of a shrapnel wound suffered during the attack on Marye's Heights — were obvious. We wonder how Dart summoned the fortitude to sit for the CDV, undoubtedly evidence for his pension claim. The CDV of Dart was taken by the Kellogg Brothers in Hartford. As he waited for his turn to be photographed that day, Dart's mind may have drifted to Dec. 13, 1862, and the Battle of Fredericksburg. Marching onto the battlefield via Princess Anne Street, the 14th Connecticut came under "a most galling fire" after crossing a causeway over a canal near the railroad depot. Then an artillery shell fired from high ground on the 14th Connecticut's right burst among prone soldiers in Company D. A 3 x 2-inch fragment smashed into the ground, firing sand into the eyes of Dart's brother-in-law, 14th Connecticut Corporal John Symonds, blinding him. A chunk of metal crashed into the arm and face of the 23-year-old Dart before striking a four-inch square, wooden post. Corporal Charles Lyman, lying next to Dart, recalled years later that the fragment surely would have ripped through his head and killed him had it not struck that obstacle. (In the charge on the well-defended stone wall at the foot of Marye's Heights, Oliver's cousin Charles, the 14th Connecticut's regimental color bearer, suffered a mortal wound.) Dart's wounds horrified another soldier in the regiment. "Poor Oliver Dart," he said. "As he rolled over he looked as though his whole face was shot away." In this enlargement of a war-time photo of Fredericksburg, Va., the Rowe House is shown. 14th Connecticut wounded, including Oliver Dart, were among Union soldiers cared for at the divisional hospital there. (Library of Congress). A circa-1940s image of the Rowe House at 607 Sophia Street in Fredericksburg. The house no longer stands. (Library of Congress) Frank Niederwerfer, descendant of Oliver Dart, holds an image of the 14th Connecticiut private at the site of the old Rowe house in Fredericksburg, Va. Dart was cared for at the divisional hospital there. May 1865 image of Stanton General Hospital in Washington, where Dart recovered from his wounds. (Library of Congress) Comrades carried Dart to a divisional hospital at the Rowe House on Sophia Street. The scene there stunned the 14th Connecticut regimental chaplain. "On the northern porch lay, among others, our Dart, his face torn off as though slashed away with a cleaver," Henry Stevens recalled, "and by his side lay Symonds, his eyes swollen with inflammation to the size of eggs, the sand grains showing through the tightly stretched and shining lids." On the day after Christmas, Dart was admitted to Stanton General Hospital in Washington, one of dozens of military hospitals in the capital. A doctor considered his chances of recovery slim — "wounded in battle," one wrote, "probably mortally." When his older brother George, a farmer, visited Oliver at the hospital, he found the conditions deplorable. A circa-1866 image of Oliver Dart with a bushy beard and mustache. (Image courtesy of Dart descendant Frank Niederwerfer) After five weeks in the Washington hospital, Dart was mercifully discharged from the U.S. Army and sent home to South Windsor, Conn. Miraculously recovering, he underwent an operation on his face at the home of his older brother, James. Oliver — the youngest of the six children of Amanda and Oliver Dart Sr. — underwent a second procedure on his face at the home of his father in South Windsor. "George Dart and his wife were almost constantly with their injured brother," a post-war account noted, "and gave him every care and attention." For three months in the summer of 1863, Oliver also spent time at a soldier's home in Hartford, where he received sustenance from a special cup because of his terrible face wound. In June 1863, Oliver filed for divorce from his second wife, Maria, claiming "a total neglect of all duties of marriage" Nearly three years later, the divorce was granted. Maria was the sister of John Symonds, the soldier who had suffered a wound next to Oliver at Fredericksburg. In December 1863, Dart filed for a government pension; the application was approved, and he initially received $8 a month. In 1869, Oliver married his third wife, Aurelia Barber, with whom he had his only three children. In an attempt to cover up his grievous war wounds, he grew a bushy beard and mustache. "In time he recovered," the post-war account noted, "though the wound was always visible and in later years his mind was somewhat affected, undoubtedly due to the shock and the suffering that ensued from the injury." Life remained an almost constant struggle for the Civil War veteran, and in the summer of 1879, consumption struck down Dart. Only 40 years old, he died on Aug. 11. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Vernon, Conn., next to first wife Emily, who died in 1860, and Aurelia. Have something to add (or correct) in this post? E-mail me here. SOURCES: Dart family history Oliver Dart pension file, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Page, Charles Davis, History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Meriden, Conn.: The Horton Printing Co., 1906. Stevens, H.S. Souvenir of Excursion to Battlefields by the Society of the Fourteenth Connecticut Regiment and Reunion at Antietam, September 1891, With History and Reminiscences of Battles and Campaigns of the Regiment on the Fields Revisited, Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers Printers, 1893. The Boys from Rockville, Civil War Narratives of Sgt. Benjamin Hirst, Co. D, 14th Connecticut Volunteers, edited, with commentary, by Robert L, Bee, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tenn., 1998.

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This resource is designed to encourage your students to carry out classroom expectations using a fun, visual representation. Please watch the video in our preview if you want to see and in-depth, step by step explanation :). You can change any of the goals for your students using the EDITABLE template. You could also use the print-and-go option we use in our classes, which focuses on multiple goals at a time (quiet transitions, on task, following directions, clean area). There are options for full class, and individual/small groups. There are over 100 rewards that are typed up for you to use for this system. They are all free options except one that reads, "treat". There is also an editable version for this so you can make rewards that fit your classroom's needs. UPDATED 9/15/19: ADDED A POWERPOINT LESSON AND WORKSHEET. This is to help present the game rules to students and break down how to earn each puzzle piece. This lesson is completely editable! Want to know more? Click here for a blog post. Thank you and enjoy! Want to see other helpful classroom management resources? Copy and paste this into your internet browser –OR- click on the link below: Tinyurl.com/blabbattle Tinyurl.com/transitionrace Tinyurl.com/hothomework Tinyurl.com/firstimust Tinyurl.com/studentledplanner Tinyurl.com/bookbinfairy Tinyurl.com/librarybookshelfmarker

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1914 saw the start of World War 1. Britain declared war on Germany on August 4th. But I wondered what was being advertised in the newspapers and magazines at that time. Here are a few 1914 adverts - the first was an obvious one: Join the army, but the rest were a mixed bag. I guess no one back then had any idea as to how the war would change the world. "Though there's a possible war we still have our luxuries like custard to comfort us ... ... even if we might have to use margarine rather than butter ... ... and paste isn't so bad on sandwiches. The good old French will no doubt help out and we'll drink Eiffel Tower lemonade to show our appreciation. And a cup of tea always puts the world right, doesn't it? If we need a pill we can rely on Beecham's. The children will still be able to shine their shoes and there will be ... ... pretty blouses for the ladies ... ... even silk ones. The men? Well they can have some comfy pyjamas for any chilly nights and ... ... we'll all be able to keep our hair shiny ... ... and light our cigarettes. So it won't be so bad ... ... it's not like millions of people will be killed or anything." Other Similar Themed Posts: Photos Comparing 2013 With 1913 The Reincarnation Of A World War I 1914 Soldier The First And Last Soldiers Killed Coincidence

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I already knew that having children's books on hand is helpful when learning about heavy topics like war, but I was reminded of it again as we studied World War II in our homeschool recently. That's why I'm happy to share some of our favorite World War II books for kids with you today.