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The Tehran Conference was a meeting between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin regarding a strategy for the war.
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Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy. It was a turning point in the war because of their victory.
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A battle between the United States and the Imperial Japanese Army. This battle is significant because it was the bloodiest battle of the war and many lives were lost.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office during his historic fourth term. Harry S. Truman becomes the President during the war.
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President Harry S. Truman approved the first atomic bomb to be dropped on the city of Hiroshima.
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The United States had dropped their second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki three days after the bombing of Hiroshima.
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President Harry S. Truman announced the Truman Doctrine to Congress. This doctrine was a change in the United States foreign policy, bringing the U.S. involved in other countries conflicts.
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The Marshall Plan was a program in which the United States provided aid to parts of Europe to reconstruct after the war.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed as an alliance by North American and European countries.
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North Korea had invaded South Korea. President Harry S. Truman had ordered the United States to aid South Korea.
