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Allies invade North Africa
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Allies invade France on D-Day
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth presidential term begins.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta in the USSO to discuss the postwar occupation of Germany.
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President Roosevelt dies from a stroke, Vice President Truman becomes president.
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Germany surrenders.
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The U.S. drops the first atomic bomb on Japan's Hiroshima
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The U.S. drops the second atomic bomb on Japan's Nagaski
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Japan agrees to surrender
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The United Nations is established.
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The Philippines become an independent republic.
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Central Intelligence Agency is established.
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Presidential Succession Act is signed into law by President Truman.
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Soviets begin to blockade of Berlin in the first major crisis of the Cold War.
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The U.S. and Great Britain begin to airlift food and fuel to West Berlin.
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President Truman's second term begins
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, is established.
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Truman authorizes $15 million dollars om economic and military aid for those fighting to keep control of French Indochina, including Vietnam. Also sent 35 military advisors.
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Korean war begins because of Cold War conflicts between Communist and Non-Communist forces on Korean Peninsula. North Korea invades South Korea.
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President Truman sends U.S. troops to assist South Korea, without Congressional approval.
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22nd Amendment is ratified to the Constitution, limiting presidents to two terms.
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President Truman removes General Douglas MacArthur as head of U.S. Far East Command.
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President Truman Speaks \in the first coast to coast live television broadcast.
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Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth.
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The first hydrogen bomb is detonated by the U.S.
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Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th president.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed for passing secret information about U.S. atomic weaponry to the Soviets.
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The armistice agreement was signed.