1942-1953

By James.P.Jones
  • Aug 9, 1045

    Nuking of Kagasaki

    Unites States drops nuclear bomb on second city in Japan

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    United States victory against Japan in World War II

  • Battle of Midway

    Aircraft battle, Unites States victory against Japan crippling their army.

  • Congress of Racial Equality

  • EO 9066

    removal of any persons from designated "exclusion zones"

  • War Refugees Board

    Advocates for Jewish Refugees

  • GI Bill Passed

    benefits for veterans after serving

  • UN Financial & Monetary Conference

    also known as the Bretton Wood Conference

  • America Begins Bombing Japan Mainland

  • America Capture Okinawa

  • UN Charter

    50 nations came together to sign the UN Charter

  • Nuking of Hiroshima

    First city in Japan to have a nuclear bomb dropped on them by Unites States

  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan surrenders in world war II

  • Leonard Read's Foundation for Economic Education

  • Levittown Built

    Built by William Levitt, first suburban community
  • Period: to

    Baby Boom

    an influx of pregnancies after the men got home from war

  • Start of Cold War

  • Taft Hartley Act

    purge communist from labor movement

  • Mount Pelerins Soceity

  • Grant to Help Greece and Turkey

    $400 Million dollars was sent to Greece and Turkey to help them with rebuilding after war
  • Period: to

    European Recovery Program

    Also known as the Marshall PLan

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • Communist took over China

  • Federal Republic of Germany

    West half of Germany

  • German Democratic Republic

    West half of Germany

  • Soviet Union Success At Making Atomic Bomb

  • CCP Declares Victory Over Kuomintang Nationalist

  • Internations Security Act

    McCarran Act, all communist organizations are required to register themselves with the governement

  • United States Makes Hydrogen Bomb

  • Stalin Death

  • USSR Created Hydrogen Bomb

  • DPRK Warmed to Peace

    armistice agreement signed