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Authorized the removal and relocation of Japanese-Americans from certain areas of the United States.
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The day on which the Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landing at Normandy.
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Nazi Germany surrenders in WW II at the allied headquarters in Reims, France.
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The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima with the consent of the United Kingdom.
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The United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
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The United Nations Charter is ratified by it's five permanent members: the United States, Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union.
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Congress passes the foreign aid bill which provides for European postwar recovery.
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The Soviets began the blockade of Berlin in the first major crises of the cold war.
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The United States and Great Britain airlifted food and fuel to West Berlin in response to the Soviet blockade.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. Military doctrine for Nato was that an attack on one country would be an attack on all.
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Communist North Korea invaded capitalist South Korea in an attempt to spread communism.
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Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg, Communist party members, were convicted of espionage and executed.