1942-1953

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  • Battle of Stalingrad

    During World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad was a bloody battle between Russian forces and Nazi Germany, and the Axis powers. The Battle is regarded as one of the greatest, longest, and deadliest battles in modern history, with approximately two million people killed or injured between August 1942 and February 1943.

  • D-Day

    The fight, code-named Operation Overlord, started on D-Day, June 6, 1944, when 156,000 American, British, and Canadian troops landed on five beaches along a 50-mile length of the highly defended Normandy coast.

  • Harry S. Truman elected as President

    Harry S. Truman was elected the 33rd president of the United States.

  • Germany Surrenders

    On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, which went into force the next day, thereby ending World War II in Europe.

  • Iron Curtain

    Winston Churchill declared in a speech in 1946 that Russia had constructed an "Iron Curtain" between eastern and western Europe.

  • Berlin Airlift

    In response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin's land routes, the US initiates a huge airlift of food, water, and medication to the beleaguered city's residents. Supplies from American planes kept the approximately 2 million civilians in West Berlin alive for over a year.

  • Executive Order 9981

    Harry S. Truman was the President of the United States at the time. It prohibited discrimination in the US Armed Forces "on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin."

  • Korean War

    The invasion began when soldiers from the North Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel, which separates the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea from the pro-Western Republic of Korea. During the Cold War, this was the first invasion.

  • Dwight Eishenhower

    Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. He was an American army officer and statesman. He was a five-star general in the US Army during World War II and the overall commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe.