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In 1942, President Roosevelt signed executive order #9066, which allowed military leaders to remove any and all "non-american" looking soldiers from the army. This was mainly targeted towards Japanese soldiers. -
In 1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin all met in Tehran to discuss more wartime plans. Stalin wanted the U.S and Britain to invade France and Roosevelt was eager to agree to this plan, however, Churchill was hesitant and unsure of the consequences of trying to invade a country like France. -
American, British, and Canadian Forces launched the operation called D-Day which was the invasion of France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. -
The Yalta Conference was when the three World War ll allies, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, all met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta, to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
Fearing that Germans would develop the atomic bomb, U.S government launched the Manhattan Project which was a program focused on developing and testing atomic energy and creating a weapon to flatten entire cities. Potsdam Conference near Berlin was where President Truman received word that the Manhattan project had successfully tested an atomic bomb. Stalin nodded in agreement with what the Americans had accomplished and hoped Americans would make good use of it. -
On August 6, the U.S dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Japan. On August 9, the U.S dropped more atomic bombs on Nagasaki, Japan. Shortly after Japan surrendered to the US. and aboard the battleship USS Missouri, Japanese delegates officially signed their surrender to the U.S WWII was over. -
President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 into law, which created the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council. -
Democrat Harry Truman beat out his running opponent, Republican Thomas E Dewey, to become the 33rd president of the United States. -
The North Koreans launched an attack on Seoul which fell to the communists in 1950. The UN then passed resolutions demanding that N Korea cease hostilities and withdraw its armed forces to the 38th parallel. Fighting continued between North Korea and the Republic of Korea with each constantly crossing the 38th parallel line into each other’s territories. Finally, on July 27, 1953, an armistice agreement was signed by the Soviet Union in the U.S. Overal 1.5 million lives were lost.