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This battle was between the US and Imperial Japanese Navy. Fought in aircraft and the US took down the Japanese first line pilots and their best trained.This battle took place six months after Pearl Harbor. This also ended the threat of Japanese Invasion threats on the Pacific.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Russia, Nazi Germany and the Axis powers. Known as one of the largest and bloodiest/dangerous battles yet in modern warfare. Nearly two million people were killed or injured, mostly Russians. However in the end the Russian soldiers captured the German soldiers and continued to march. The captured soldiers died in the Russian prison camps from either starvation of disease. As a result Germany had been defeated.
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Also known as the Italian Campaign. Allied beach landings and battles from Sicily and southern Italy. The goal was to take Italy out of WW2.
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A meeting between three WW2 allies: President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. All discussing whether the Soviet Union should enter the War against Japan. In which they did agree in exchange for participation in the Pacific Theater.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt died due to his physical health declining. He died just three months into his fourth term.
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German General Alfred Jodl signed a unconditional surrender of all German forces in France. At first they were only going to surrender to the western forces but General Eisenhower demanded a complete surrender. But if they weren´t going to surrender Eisenhower was going to keep the fleet from moving on any further.
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An American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb on a Japanese city Hiroshima. The explosion killed 80,000 people and then more from radiation. While three days later another city was bombed Nagasaki, killing 40,000 people as well. Due to this Japan pulled put of WW2.
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Truman announced that Japan was surrendering and that it would end WW2. The news spread very quickly and celebrations were made across the US.
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After the surrender of Nazi Germany that ended WW2. An upset between the US and Britain together against the Soviet Union. The threat of nuclear weapons and communism worried the US.
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Given by former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri. Churchill emphasizes that the US and Britain need to stick together and in his words ¨act as guardians of peace and stability" against the Soviet Communism.
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A program that provides aid to Western Europe from the damage and devastation from WW2. It helped people get back to normal and helped them get back on their feet. It raised 15 billion for rebuilding.
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President Truman signed an order that allowed the military it integrate.
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A testing site at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name First Lightning. The testing bomb was experimented with buildings and animals in cages far away to see how they would react to the radiation before testing humans. The explosion was equal to the ¨Trinity" therefore killing the animals along with damaging the buildings and cages they were in
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An American politician and attorney that served as Republic senator of the state Wisconsin 1947 to his death in 1957.
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Between North and South Korea, resulting in 2.5 million killed. The cause of the war was the spread of communism, American containment and Japanese occupation of Korea during WW2.
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No one can be elected to the office of the President more than twice and no person that has already held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years can be elected again.
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Eisenhower was elected as the 34th President of the United States of America. That also served as a military officer and statesman before his presidency.
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The discovery of the double helix, the twisted-ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), by James Watson and Francis Crick marked a milestone in the history of science and gave rise to modern molecular biology. However, Rosalind Franklin discovered the density of DNA. She established that the molecule was a a helical conformation. Her work to make clearer X-ray patterns of DNA molecules landed the foundation for Watson and Crick's suggestion that DNA is a double-helix polymer.