-
President Roosevelt approves production of the atomic bomb following receipt of a National Academy of Sciences report determining that a bomb is feasible.
-
The Army Corps of Engineers establishes this to develop and build the atomic bomb. Uranium isotope separation facilities are built at Oak Ridge, TN; plutonium production reactors are built at Hanford, WA; and a weapons lab is set up at Los Alamos, NM.
-
Big Inch crude-oil pipeline is completed from the Texas oil fields to Pennsylvania. The line serves as a transportation alternative to tankers that are being sunk by German subs.
-
Congress passes this act authorizing the Bureau of Mines to build energy research labs.
-
Following the death of President Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman becomes the President of the United States of America.
-
After a long six years, Germany surrenders.
-
Soviet Union begins blockade of West Berlin.
-
The Soviet Union detonates the first atomic device.
-
President Truman orders development of the hydrogen bomb in response to the Soviet Union's first detonation of the atomic bomb.
-
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th President of the United States of America.