1942-1953

By craigwallace

  • Executive Order 9066 Signed

    This order put Japanese Americans into relocation camps
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    Battle of Midway

  • Marines land at Guadalcanal

  • First Nuclear Chain Reaction is produced

  • First Major Defeat in the Euopean Theater

    The defeat happened at the Battle of Kasserine Pass

  • Race Riots in Detroit and Harlem

    40 deaths and 700+ injured

  • Tehran Conference

    Final agreement about Operation Overlord

  • D-Day

  • G.I. Bill of Rights is Signed

    Provided benefits to veterans

  • Explosion at Port Chicago Naval weapons Station

    The explosion killed 320 people
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    Battle for Guam

  • Roosevelt Re-Elected

    Only 4 term president
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    Yalta Conference

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    Battle of Okinawa

  • Roosevelt Died so Truman took over the presedancie

    Roosevelt died of a stroke

  • Unconditional Surrender of Germany

  • First Atomic Bomb Test

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan Surrenders

  • United Nations Fouded

  • First Meeting of the United Nations

  • NBA Founded

  • Atomic Energy Commission Founded

    AEC regulates the non-wartime use of nuclear energy

  • Jackie Robinson Debuts as the First Black Player in the MLB

  • Truman Doctrine Passed

    Gave financial aid to battle communism

  • Soviet Union Begins Land Blockade of Berlin

  • Executive Order 9981 Signed

    Ended Segragation in the milatary

  • Truman Re-elected

  • First Around-the-world Non-stop Flight

  • NATO is formed

  • Tokyo Rose Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison

    She was pardoned in 1977

  • Alger Hiss Convicted of Conspiracy

  • Census Finds the Population to be over 150 million

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    Korean War

  • ANZUS Treaty Signed

    Australia, New Zeland and, the United States SignSecurity Pact

  • Buckminster Files Patent for Geodesic Dome building

  • Winter Olympics Held in Helsinki Finland

  • First Hydrogen Bomb Test

  • Eisenhower Elected

  • Description of Double Helix DNA Molecule Published

  • First Color Television goes on Sale