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Battle of Midway
Japan hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet and use Midway as a base to attack Pearl Harbor, securing dominance in the region and then forcing a negotiated peace. -
D-Day
Allied Forces invade France. -
Surrender of Germany
From fear of the Allied forces Germany Surrendered. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Death
President Roosevelt died of a Cerebral Hemorrhage. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
America dropped their second bomb. -
Cold War Starts
Cold War started between Soviet Union and America, but full combat never occurred because of fear of atomic power -
The Marshall Plan
After WW II intended to aid European countries that had been destroyed as a result of the war. -
Berlin Airlift
One of the first major ¨battles¨ of the Cold War, The Soviet Union blocks the land routes that lead into West Berlin. -
NATO
NATO was creating between countries for security.