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The U.S. Congress approves the first peacetime conscription draft in anticipation of possible American involvement in WWII.
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Roosevelt was elected to a third term with the promise of maintainign American neutrality.
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A movie by Orson Welles, Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
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60 foot sculpter of four United States presidents: George Washinton, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Rosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
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Determind to keep the U.S. out of the war whike helping those allies already in it, appoves 1 billion in Lend-Lease to tnhe soviet union.
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Peral Harbor was an unexpected attack by the Japanese on Peral Harbor. The Japanese planed to neutralize the U.S. iin the pacific east.
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Research and development by the U.S. to produce the first atomic bomb.
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Authorized the secretary of war to declare areas of the U.S. as military area from which any or all persons may be excluded.
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The U.S. navy defeted the japanese Navy's attack against Midweay Atoll. Considered the turning point of the war against japan.
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A rioting between blacks and whites that lasted three days before federal troops restored order.
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Operaton Overload was a plan to land a large amount of troops and overwhelm German forces.
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A law that provided a range of benefits for retuning WWII vetrions.
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A major battle in which the United States foiught for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japenese empire
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Triman became president after Franklin D. Roosevelt died after months of declinign health.
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Germany siged an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters.
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One the six principal organs of the United Nations
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Founded in New York as the BAA then adopted the name National Basketball Association of America.
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Went agenst the Boston Braves and played first base and 0 for 3 at the plate.
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An american program to aid europe. The U.S. gave support to help rebuild europ-ean economy.
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Truman beat Dewey even though in every prediction Dewey was predicted to lose. Considered one of the greatest election upsets in american history.
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The NATO was a system of collective defenses in which members of states agreed to mutual defensse in response to an attack by any external party.
