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Franklin D Roosevelt waselected for an unprecedented third term of as America's 32 nd president.
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor beginning Wold War II.
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The Bataan death march was a forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II.
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Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland fought against German soldiers who intended to round them up and send them to the Trelinka death camp.
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The Allies launched an attack by sea, landing on the beaches of Normandy on the northern coast of Nazi occupied France.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler shot himself in the head with his pistol, likely after swallowing cyanide.
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Winston Churchill gives his "Iron Curtain" speech
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Jewish refuges aboard the Exodus turned back by the British. The ship known as Exodus 1947left southern France on a secret mission to land 4,515 Jewish men, women and children in Palestine.
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Harry S Truman surprised everyone when he, and not Thomas E Dewey, won the 1948 election for President of the United States.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established by 12 western nations. NATO is an inergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic.
