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American History 1942-1953

  • Anne Frank and her family go into hiding

    Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Achterhuis" in Amsterdam
  • D-Day

    The Day when the Allied forces began their liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany.
  • Paris Liberated

    The Allies officially liberated the Capital of France
  • Mussolini captured and executed

    Italian Emperor captured and killed by liberators
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler commits suicide before he could be captured in an underground bunker
  • V.E Day

    Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces
  • Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

    The first of two atomic bombs America dropped in Japan
  • Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

    The US launches its second atomic bomb on a city in Japan
  • Japan Surrenders

    Japan surrenders from WW2
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    Korean War

    The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea