1942-1953

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  • Executive Order 9066

    Franklin Roosevelt passes this executive order to establish Japanese internment camps from 1942 to 1945. People of Japanese decent were put into this camps and isolated from the population.

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

    Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the United States Navy and Air force. First action of aircraft carries fighting each other.

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    German forces lose at the Battle of Stalingrad against the Soviet army. Soviets demand unconditional surrender.

  • Allies Invade Italy

    Allies used amphibious landing vehicles to invade ant take Italy.

  • D-Day

    Western allies used amphibious vehicles to assault Normandy in this legendary battle.

  • FDR Dies

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies in office, leaving the presidency to Harry Truman

  • Atomic Bombing of Japan

    America dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, and then three days later dropped another bomb on the city of Nagasaki causing Japan to unconditionally surrender.

  • Philippines Liberated

    The Philippines were liberated once Japanese forces were ordered to surrender after the dropping of the atomic bombs.

  • Yalta Conference

    Meeting of the heads of the governments of the United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union to discuss Germany's post war reorganization.

  • Germany Surrenders

    German signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces

  • Iron Curtain Speech

    Winston Churchill delivers his Iron Curtain Speech, implying that the people living under Soviet rule in eastern Europe were oppressed and lacked basic freedoms.

  • Cold War Begins

    The Cold War begins between the US and the Soviet Union.

  • US starts its policy of Containment

    United States adopts a policy of Containment by George F. Kennan to combat the Soviet Union.

  • Taft-Hartley Act

    A United States act that restricted the powers of labor unions.

  • Berlin Airlift Begins

    United States started airlifting food, water and medicine to citizens of blockaded West Berlin.

  • European Recovery Program

    An American initiative to add western Europe after the end of World War II to help rebuild their broken country.

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

    NATO was created by the United States, Canada and Western European nations to have collective security against the Soviet threat.

  • Soviet Atomic Bomb

    The Soviets successfully test their first atomic bomb after researching the technology from seeing the successful use by the United States in WWII.

  • China becomes a Communist Country

    The end of the Chinese revolution that began right after WWII ended with China becoming the Peoples Republic of China, leading to the United States ending ties with China.

  • Start of the Korean War

    The Korean war begins when North Korea invaded South Korea.

  • The Twenty-second Amendment

    The Twenty-second Amendment was ratified limiting Presidents to 2 terms.

  • Election of 1952

    Dwight Eisenhower was elected President.