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McDonald's
McDonald's opens it's first restaurant in San Bernardino, California unleashing the massive franchise on the world. -
Jeep
The very first developed Jeep to be used in WWII as a primary vehicle. -
Rosie the riveter
Rosie was a WWII icon. She influenced man women to work in factories and support the war in any way they could while their husbands were off fighting. -
Korematsu vs. US
After entering WWll the US felt threatened by Japan and put this executive order into place to legally take Japanese people away from public areas; They ended up in considerations camps mostly. -
D-Day
156,000 Canadian, American, and British forces pushed up the beaches of France. It was the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. -
Kamikazes
The Kamikazes were a team of Military Aviators who initiated suicide attacks. They would fly their planes into navel ships in order to wipe out whole fleets. 3,862 Kamikaze pilots died and 7,000 were killed -
Battle of the Bulge
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Iwo Jima
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Nagasaki
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Hiroshima
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Frisbee
The Frisbee was originally found because some college kids would go to a pie shop and throw the pie pans around after they ate all their pie. -
Berlin Airlift
After soviet blockades prohibited us for delivering supplies, the US started making airlifts of mass amounts of supplies in order to keep fueling our armies. 200,000 planes carried over 1.5 million tons of supplies. -
Warsaw Pact
