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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, for protection of the United States against possible foreign spies, President Roosevelt signed an order to relocate 110,000 Japanese Americans, including 75,000 citizens, on the West Coast into relocation camps during World War II.
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A turning point battle in World War II was the Battle of the Midway which was fought at Midway Islands in the Pacific. This is where the Japanese fleet encountered their first major defeat against the U.S. military. At the end of the Midway on June 7, Japan invades the Aleutian Islands, the first invasion of American soil in 128 years.
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The development of the first atomic bomb is signed into an agreement between the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York.
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The United States Marines land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in the first American offensive of World War II, it was knowns as "Operation Watchtower."
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The US and Great Britain invaded North Africa in an effort to drive the Germans out.
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The US suffers its first major defeat in World War II at the Battle for Kasserine Pass in Tunisia.
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Race riots broke out Detroit, Michigan and Harlem, New York causing forty deaths and seven hundred injuries. The riots were due to white workers protesting against black employees being promoted and white workers were furious about black neighbors hoods extending.
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The Tehran Conference was held during World War II by "The Big Three" - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin. They planned for three days for an invasion of Europe that would take place in June 1944. This became know as "Operation Overlord."
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The Normandy Invasion, D-Day, occurs when 150,000 Allied troops, including American forces and those of eleven other Allied nations, land in France. Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of France, and liberated Paris. The Allies quickly advanced through the Atlantic Wall making this battle the largest amphibious military operation in history.
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The G.I. Bill of Rights is signed into law, by President Roosevelt providing veterans funds.
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The greatest continental U.S. tragedy of World War II occurs when two ships loading ammunition at Port Chicago Naval Weapons Station in California explodes. The accident killed three hundred and twenty people.
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The US forces start to take Guam back from the Japanese after they had occupied the Island during WWII, the battle would last till August 10.
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Franklin Roosevelt was the only president to run three full terms and get voted in for a fourth term, but sadly in April 12, 1945 a month after he was sworn in he suddenly died.
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The Battle of the Bulge also called "the greatest America battle of the war" by Churchill, took place in a region of Belgium. It was Hitlers last major offensive to try and split the allies from their pursuit to Germany. The battle lasted 6 brutal weeks in freezing cold temperatures.
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President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Josef Stalin hold the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union to discuss what to do with defeated Europe and Germany.
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Thirty thousand United States Marines land on Iwo Jima and on April 1, the American troops invaded Okinawa, beginning the Battle of Okinawa, which would continue until June 21.
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After Roosevelt suddenly died, Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President of the United States.
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When World War II came to a end the entire world celebrated. Thousands gathered together in the streets to rejoice over the good news.
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The first atomic bomb, the Trinity Test, is exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico, after its production at Los Alamos.
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President Harry S. Truman gives the go-ahead for the use of the atomic bomb with the bombing of Hiroshima and three days later another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan thus leading to the surrender of the Japanese Emperor.
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The United Nations held its first general assembly meeting almost two and a half months after it was founded. Fifty-One nations including the Security Council nations of China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.A. This would also lead to the discontinuing of the League of Nations 4 months later.
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The Atomic Energy Commission is established. It was created to supervise the development, use and control of nuclear energy for military and civilian applications.
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The Truman Doctrine is announced to the U.S. Congress. It would give aid to countries who were threatened by communist. Truman would implement the act on May 22.
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After World War II ended the Cold War begin with the Soviet Union. The Soviets began to try and spread their communist propaganda and take over western Europe. The Soviet Union also began to make their own atomic weapons that could potentially be used on US cities or anywhere else putting terror in the hearts around the world.
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After the War, Germany was divided into sections. The Soviets controlled the East and the Allies controlled the West. The soviets however cut off all access to the West side leaving the Germans to starve. As a result the US sent B-29 bombers that would land every 45 seconds, full of food and supplies for the German people.
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The North American Treaty Organization, is formed by the United States, Canada, and ten Western European nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom). The treaty stated that any attack against one nation would be considered an attack against them all.
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In 1949 the US made the decision to withdraw its troops from Korea.
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The Korean War started and lasted for three years when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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In 1951, Congress passed the 22nd Amendment to limit presidencies to two terms.
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In 1952 the United States voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower making him the 34th President. He was known for his famous slogan "I like Ike."
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In an effort to qualm the fears of a nuclear warfare, President Eisenhower gave a speech before the United Nations.
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The first color televisions go on sale.
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