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President Roosevelt signed this order which authorized the remocal of any persons from designated "exclusion zones" which were around one-third of the country.
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After eighty days of fighting and thousands of casualties America captured Okinawa.
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Americans bombed Hiroshima killing thousands.
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America bombed Nagasaki killing thousands.
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The end of WWII when Japan surrenders.
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George Kennan sent a lengthy telegram to the U.S. State Department explaining how dangerous the Soviet Union nationalism was getting.
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An order establishing loyalty reviews for federal employees.
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This act gave union officials the initiative to purge communists from the labor movement.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declared property deed restrictions barring sales to racial minorities legally unenforceable.
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American officials launched this pact which the United States and Canada were joined by England, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. This was called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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The National Security Memorandum 68 warned everyone that annihilation was a possibility.
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First issued credit cards.
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Dwight Eisenhower wins the presidential election in 1952.
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The U.S. detonated the first thermonuclear weapon.