1940-1949

By kaymacc
  • The United States government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain

    The United States government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain

    was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army
  • Roosevelt becomes the first man to hold office for three terms

    Roosevelt becomes the first man to hold office for three terms

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt continues his dominance of presidential politics with a 449 to 82 Electoral College victory over Republican candidate Wendell Wilkie, winning his third presidential election
  • Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation

    Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation

  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act

    program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Free France, the Republic of China, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Battle of Coral Sea

    <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1HZsuXCNGA' >Battle of the Coral Sea was a battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
  • Hitler ordered his German U-Boats to attack American ships

    Hitler ordered his German U-Boats to attack American ships

    U-boats were German submarines that caused a great destruction in World War Two during the Battle of the Atlantic.
  • Great Depression going on in the U.S.

    Great Depression going on in the U.S.

    Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.
  • Race riot in Detroit and Harlem

    Race riot in Detroit and Harlem

    they cause forty deaths and seven hundred injuries
  • The greatest continental U.S. tragedy of World War II occurs

    The greatest continental U.S. tragedy of World War II occurs

    two ships loading ammunition at Port Chicago Naval Weapons Station in California explodes. The accident killed three hundred and twenty people.
  • The United States military begins to retake the island of Guam after Japanese troops had occupied the island during World War II

    The United States military begins to retake the island of Guam after Japanese troops had occupied the island during World War II

    battle would end on August 10
  • Battle of US 94 Infantry

    Battle of US 94 Infantry

    he 94th Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I
  • U.s. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagoski

    U.s. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagoski

    The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945
    The two bombings were the first and only use of nuclear weapons in wartime.
  • U.S. army establishes 1st trader

    U.S. army establishes 1st trader

  • Four hundred thousand mine workers begin to strike

    series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany
  • The Exodus

    The Exodus

    charter myth of Israel; its message is that the Israelites were delivered from slavery by Yahweh and therefore belong to him through the covenant
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism
  • Gandhi assassination

    Gandhi assassination

    shot at close range by Nathuram Godse. Gandhi was outside on the steps of a building where he was about to have a prayer meeting
  • The Soviet Union begins its land blockade of the Allied sectors of Berlin, Germany

    The Soviet Union begins its land blockade of the Allied sectors of Berlin, Germany

    A counter blockade by the west was put into effect, as well as a British and U.S. airlift of supplies and food, until both blockades were lifted on September 30, 1949.
  • Soviet Union has atomic bomb

    Soviet Union has atomic bomb

    great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon
  • Eleven leaders of the United States Communist party are convicted of advocating a violent insurrection and overthrow of the U.S. government

    Eleven leaders of the United States Communist party are convicted of advocating a violent insurrection and overthrow of the U.S. government

    The Supreme Court would uphold the convictions on June 4, 1951.