Lord of the Flies

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  • Salt March

    Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March, an act of civil disobedience, took place.

  • Scottsboro Boys Case

    Nine Black teens and young men known as the Scottsboro Boys were falsely accused of raping two white women in a landmark civil rights and fair trial case.

  • Adolf Hitler Takes Over

    Chancellor of Germany goes to Adolf Hitler,

  • Bonnie and Clyde

    Notorious bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were gunned down by police.

  • Italian prime minister and dictator Benito Mussolini invades Ethiopia

  • Japan invades China

  • Hitler marches into Austria

  • Nazi Blockade

    The Nazis began a prolonged military blockade known as the Siege of Leningrad, which would not end until 1944

  • Pearl Harbor

    The japanese attack pearl harbor.

  • The Battle of Stalingrad began, the largest confrontation of Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union in an attempt to gain control of the city.

  • Manhattan Project

    The Manhattan Project, a U.S. federally-funded effort to develop and produce nuclear weapons, began.

  • D-Day

    was momentous: D-Day, when the Allies landed in Normandy on the way to liberate Europe from the Nazis

  • First Bomb Attack

    The first V-1 flying bomb attack was carried out on the city of London, one of two Vergeltungswaffen (retaliatory weapons) used in the campaign against Britain in 1944 and 1945.

  • End of WW2

    World War II ended in Europe and the Pacific in 1945, and those two events dominated this year

  • US Drops first Atomic Bombs

    During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • Hitler Society

    In his bunker while hiding from the Soviets, him and his wife both committed suicide. Hitler took a gunshot to his head and his wife drank poison. After they died some of his staff members took him and his wife and drenched them in gasoline and set them on fire. They did this many times until you couldn't recognize that that was a body. Then they buried them side by side.

  • Nuclear Bomb Test

    The Soviet Union conducted the first nuclear bomb test,in what is today Kazakhstan.

  • 1984 was publshed

    George Orwell's landmark "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was published

  • The Soviet Union begins putting nuclear missiles on submarine

  • Hydrogen Bomb

    President Truman approves Hydrogen bomb construction

  • Korean War Starts

  • The postwar baby boom dramatically increases birthrates in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia

  • Korean War ends

    The Korean War ends after three years of inconclusive fighting. An armistice is signed and the boundary between North and South Korea is drawn at the 38th parallel.

  • Israel and Germany agree on restitution for damages done to Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II.

  • Joseph Stalin Dies

  • Brown v Board

    The Brown v. Board of Education decision is handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court saying that "separate but equal" school systems are unconstitutional. An era of desegregation of schools is instituted

  • The U.S. launches the first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus

  • Rosa Parks to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, and the subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott.

  • The civil rights movement began with the August 28 murder of Emmett Till, the refusal

  • Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution, became the dictator of Cuba and brought communism to the Caribbean country