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Nearly two months after the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. In an effort to curb potential Japanese espionage, Executive Order 9066 approved the relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps.
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The Jefferson Memorial was built to commemorate Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), architect and principal author of the Declaration of the United States.
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On 6 June 1944 – 'D-Day' – Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation 'Overlord', the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation.
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Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia, concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule, and fear that if the United States did not take control of the islands, another power (such as Germany or Japan) might do so.
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Dies from a Hemorrhagic stroke
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After FDR Harry S. Truman takes over office
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The unconditional surrender of the German Third Reich was signed in the early morning hours of Monday, May 7, 1945, at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) at Reims in northeastern France.
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The first atomic bomb detonated over a populated area occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 AM over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty
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Began when soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. First invasion during Cold war
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Limits the President to two terms FDR was the only president to serve more than two terms
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United States presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election