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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on June 4 to June 7, 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion ever undertaken and laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Germany in World War II.
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On June 22, 1944, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill of Rights, was signed into law. Professor Edwin Amenta states: Veterans benefits were a bargain for conservatives who feared increasingly high taxation and the extension of New Deal national government agencies.
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On May 7, 1945, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies in Reims, France, ending World War II and the Third Reich.
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On 16 July 1945, the ‘Trinity’ nuclear test plunged humanity into the so-called Atomic Age. The first-ever nuclear bomb was detonated in New Mexico, at the Alamogordo Test Range.
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United States presidential election of 1952, American presidential election held on November 4, 1952, in which Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower easily defeated Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson.