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President Roosevelt Declares war 3 hours after his Infamy Speech on Dec. 8th against the Japanese empire in response to the devastating assault on Pear Harbor on Dec, 7th. 1941

Charlie Chaplin As an actor he created silent films. He makes the first film in which he speaks coherent dialogue and a first film ridiculing Adolf Hitler in "The Great Dictator" 1940

J. Robert Oppenheimer US physicist is appointed director of the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon 1942

Jean-Paul Sartr e French philosopher expounds his theory of existentialism in Being and Nothingness ('L'Être et le néant') 1943

Elizabeth Taylor 12-year-old actress who co-stars with a horse in the film "National Velvet" 1944

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