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Operation Watchtower was the first offensive of World War II. The troops were trying to take over the Japanese help places in the Pacific. -
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill held and meeting about the War and strategizing on what they should do to win. They came up with Operation Overlord. -
This was a very important event for the turn of the War. Allied soldiers stormed France's beaches which lead to the liberation of Paris. Operation Overlord was gaining traction. -
At age 63 and after severing 4 great terms in office passed away. Vice president Truman takes charge at this very crucial time. -
General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of all the forces of Germany. About a month before this Adolf Hitler commited suicide. -
The Manhattan Project had a successful test for the first ever atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This later helped end the war. -
On Aug 6, an American bomber dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima then 3 days later another bomber dropped another atomic bomb over Nagasaki. These events caused 100,000 deaths. It ended the war between The U.S and Japan and later ended World War II. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the U.S, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, England. They wanted to keep peace and secure freedom. -
North Korea started the War against the South. There hasn't been a real peace agreement. -
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The new polio vaccine developed by Dr.Joan Salk. It was available in the U.S. -
Rosa Parks, an African-American was arrested because she wouldn't give up her seat to a white man. -
A big leap forward. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the 9 black students safely into an all white school in Arkansas. -
President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This was a response to the Soviet Union's launch of their first satellite. -
This was a tense standoff between the U.S and the Soviets during the Cold War. -
250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. -
This Act ended segregation in public places. It was first proposed by President John F. Kennedy. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. -
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A volcanic peak in Washington, had a massive eruption, there were 57 people killed and land destroyed. -
After Ronald Reagan's inauguration as the 40th president, the 52 captives held in Iran are released. -
Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court justice. A big step forward. -
The Challenger Space Shuttle unfortunately explodes only after 73 seconds after lift off. All of America was in shock. -
It was a law passed by the United States Congress to simplify the income tax code. The act lowered federal income tax rates. Reagan really wanted this to happern. -
The Berlin Wall came down and free elections ousted the Communist regimes everywhere in Eastern Europe and the In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. -
Bill Clinton became the 42nd president.