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| 1943 |
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| Beginning of baby boom. Birth rates began to rise in middle-class families, to over three children per family. Concomitant reduction in average marriage age. | 1 |
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| June |
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| The “zoot suit” riots. A group of sailors from the Chavez Ravene Naval Base attacked Hispanic and black youths. The violence involved over 1,000 youths and lasted two days before it subsided; similar attacks on the so-called zoot-suiters occurred in San Diego, Long Beach, Chicago, Detroit, and Philadelphia. | 2 |
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| June 23 |
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| Detroit race riot. Twenty-five blacks and whites died in the riot. The conflict required nearly 6,000 National Guardsmen before order was restored. Two months later race riots erupted in New York City, which resulted in the deaths of six blacks and more than 300 injuries. | 3 |
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| July 16 |
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| The Office of Economic Warfare superseded the Board of Economic Warfare and assumed some functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Later (Sept. 25) the new organ was named the Foreign Economic Administration. | 4 |
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| Aug. 11–24 |
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| Quebec Conference of Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt (See Aug. 24). | 5 |
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| Nov. 28–Dec. 1 |
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| TEHRAN CONFERENCE (See Nov. 28–Dec. 1). | 6 |
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