1942-1953

By maliq_brock
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    Allies Invade North Africa

  • The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway

  • The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily

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    Allies Invade Italy

  • Italy surrenders to the Allies

  • D-Day

  • Paris is liberated from German control

  • The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge

    They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army

  • F. Roosevelt's fourth inauguration

  • US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima

  • The US Third Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River

  • US President Franklin Roosevelt dies

    He is succeeded by President Harry Truman

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany surrenders to the Allies

  • First atomic bomb is detonated at Alamogordo, N.M

  • The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

  • Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasak

  • Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies

  • United Nations is established

  • The Philippines become independent

  • CIA is established

  • Soviets begin blockade of Berlin

    The first major crisis of the cold war

  • U.S. and Great Britain begin airlift of food and fuel to West Berlin

  • Truman's second inauguration

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established

  • Soviets end blockade of Berlin

    Air support continues until September 30

  • North Korean communists invade South Korea

  • President Truman commits American troops to battle

  • Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution is ratified

    Limits the president to two terms

  • President Truman removes Gen. Douglas MacArthur as head of U.S. Far East Command

  • President Truman speaks in first coast-to-coast live television broadcast

  • Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth

  • First hydrogen bomb is detonated by the U.S. on Eniwetok

  • Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th president

  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed for passing secret information about U.S. atomic weaponry to the Soviets

  • Armistice agreement is signed in Korea