1942-1953

By angelina.barrow

  • Synthetic Liquid Fuel Act is passed

    energy research facilities can now be built

  • President Franklin Roosevelt dies

    He died from cerebral hemorrhage

  • invention of the nuclear bomb

    J. Robert Oppenheimer was head of the team that worked to invent this

  • First Atomic Bomb used in war

    Was called "little boy" and dropped over the city of Hiroshima

  • invention of microwave oven

    invented by Percy Spencer

  • Marshall plan

    this act provided Europe with economical aid

  • The Soviets Test Their First Atomic Bomb

  • start of the Korean war