1942-1953 By Jocelyn.howell 1942 Us halts Japanese at Coral Sea 1944 D-Day France invaded 1945 End of WWII 1946 First United Nations meeting 1948 The Marshall Plan 1949 Soviet Union tests an atomic bomb 1950 Korean War 1952 Dwight Eisenhower elected president 1953 Country singer Hank Williams dies 1953 United States develops hydrogen bomb