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This order authorized the removal of any person from certain "exclusion zones." These zones covered almost a third of the country. The act was designed to remove or relocate Japanese citizens.
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Japanese citizens from the U.S were put into isolated camps from 1942 - 1945
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Allied nations invade Normandy. Largest seaborne invasion in history.
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Harry S. Truman take office as the president of the United States.
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Germany Surrenders al forces.
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The first atomic bomb to be dropped on a civilian city was Fat Man. It was dropped on Hiroshima. 3 days later a second bomb was dropped and the Japanese surrendered.
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Japanese formally signs the instrument of surrender on board the USS Missouri, marking the official ending of World War II.
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American engineer Percy Spencer is generally credited with inventing the modern microwave oven after World War II from radar technology developed during the war.
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Began when the Soviet-backed North Korean People's Army invaded its pro-Western neighbor to the south.
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Demolishes all racial discrimination in the armed forces.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Began when soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.
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Limits the president to two terms.
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The Korean war ends.
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Dwight Eisenhower is elected president.
