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World War II
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Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack US naval base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Major battle of World War II on the Eastern Front. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprsising
Warsaw, Poland - Jewish resistence at the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland occupied by Germany, -
D-Day
Normandy, France - -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies
The 32nd president of the United States dies. Vice president Harry S. Truman takes over. -
"Iron Curtain" Speech
Winston Churchill delivered the "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The "Iron Curtain" was the separation of Europe during the Cold War. -
Polaroid camera invented
Edwin Land created the first polaroid camera that self-develops. -
Gandhi assassinated
Nathuram Godse assassinated and killed Mohandas Gandhi in New Delhi, India. -
NATO established
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an political organization whose goal was to "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". NATO still exists today.
