1942
College adopts accelerated program
1944
Wartime enrollment hits low
1945
First veterans return to campus
1947
Enrollment tops 1,000 for first time
1948
Pomona adjusts to Daylight Savings Time
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1940
Germany invades France
1941
Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor
1942
First sustained nuclear chain reaction
1943
Allies invade Italy
1944
D-Day landings in Normandy
1945
Anne Frank dies in concentration camp
1946
First meeting of the United Nations
1947
Jackie Robinson plays for the Dodgers
1948
Truman desegregates the U.S. armed forces
1949
Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb