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On June 7th,1941, 360 Japanese warplanes descended on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault.
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The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid.
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June 25, 1943,United States Congress passed the Smith-Connally Act
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On June 6, 1944, 12 nations that included the US Army stormed the beaches of Normandy.
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July 16, 1945, the Manhattan Project held its first successful test of an atomic device—a plutonium bomb—at the Trinity test site at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese
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June 3, 1946, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Morgan v. Virginia that a Virginia law, requiring segregation of white and African-American bus passengers, was illegal for interstate travel.
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Congress approved the 22nd Amendment
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Truman signed Executive Order 9981 on 26 July 1948 stating, "There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
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Chambers accused former State Department official Alger Hiss of having been a communist and a spy during the 1930s
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The second inauguration of Harry S. Truman as President of the United States was held on Thursday, January 20, 1949.
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March 1, 1949
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On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea
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Republican General Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democratic Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson