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Hanford was built in 1943 and after WWII there was a lull at Hanford. By 1945 Plutonium from the Hanford's Nuclear Reactors went into the Trinity test bomb and the bomb that dropped on Nagasaki.
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Discussed Europe's post-war reorganization. Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joesph Stalin were the major Allied leaders.
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Truman is elected U.S. President.
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Hitler Commits suicide by consuming a cyandide capsule then shot himself with a pistol in his underground bunker.
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U.N. established which consisted of originally 51 states. The purpose of the U.N. was to bring peace globally,
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After WWII there was a dramatic increase of babies.
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Harry S. Truman signs the Employment Act which gives responsibility of economic stability and inflation and unemployment to the Federal Government.
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Penitentiary; located in San Francisco Bay. One of the most violent escapes led by Bernard Paul Coy, a bank robber, serving 25 years.
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First African American to be asked to play in the Major League with Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Attempt to break the blockade. Purpose was to fly food and supplies into West Germany. May 1949 Soviet Union lifted the blockade.
