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American forces defeat the Japanese Navy at the battles of Midway and Coral Sea
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt executes Executive Order 9066, interring Japanese-American families in fear of espionage.
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Allied Forces push the Axis armies out of the African Continent
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Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Tehran to discuss the invasion of Germany
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The GI bill is passed, granting benefits to soldiers and veterans.
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American troops capture the Japanese Island of Okinawa
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J. Robert Oppenheimer tests the first Nuclear bomb in Trinity, New Mexico
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Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President of the United States after the death of Franklin Roosevelt.
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50 nations sign the United Nations Charter.
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The Soviet Union launches the first satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit.
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The Federal government orders the full racial integration of its armed forces.
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The United States, along with Canada, England, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, forms the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to oppose Communist spread in Europe.
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The first credit card is issued.
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North Korean forces are pushed out of the South Korean capital of Seoul by UN forces
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Soviet officials propose a cease-fire between the Soviet-backed North Korean forces, and the American supported South Korean forces.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected 34th President of the United States.
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The United States tests the first Hydrogen-bomb. This would add fuel to the arms race between the Untied States and the Soviet Union, who tested their own H-Bomb in 1953
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Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, dies.
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Julian and Ethel Rosenberg are tried and executed for being Russian spies.
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An armistice is called between the nations of North Korea and South Korea.
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The United States Supreme Court decides that racial segregation is against the 14th Amenndment of the Constituiton. This ruling over turned the previous "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Russia responds to the creation of NATO with the formation of the Warsaw Pact, made up of Russia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East Germany.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is created.
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The Soviet Luna 2 becomes the first man made object to reach the moon, putting the Soviet Union ahead in the space race.
