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Pearl Harbor
Due to the Pearl Harbor attack U.S. joins WWII. -
Executive order of 9066
Removal of any persons from "exclusion zones" meaning relocating and removing Japanese people. -
Kidney Dialysis machine invented
Machine is invented -
The GI Bill
The GI Bill offered benefits to returning veterans. -
D Day
D Day -
Cold War Begins
Cold War Begins -
Bombing of Hiroshima
1st bomb on Japan soil by the U.S. named the "fat boy", placed on Hiroshima, Japan. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
2nd bomb tested on Japan soil. 3 days after the Hiroshima bomb the U.S. placed another bomb on Nagasaki names the "little boy." -
World War II ends
World War II ends -
'Iron Curtain'
The speech 'iron curtain' was presented by Winston Churchill. -
Marshall Plan
Truman signed the economy recovery act of 1948 -
NATO
NATO is formed- mutual defense pact between U.S., Canada, Belgium, France, England, and etc. -
Germany splits in half
Germany splits in half -
Korean War
Began when North Korea invaded South Korea -
Conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
"members of the communists party in the U.S. in the 1930's the two were accused of giving bomb- related documents to the Soviet Union.