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Period: to
1940s
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Hitler invades Norway and Denmark
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
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President FD Roosevelt dies
FDR has a brain hemorrhage and Harry S. Truman succeeds him as president. -
US drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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US drops 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
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Japan surrenders
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Truman Doctrine
US granted $400 million in aide to Greece and Turkey to fight communism.