United States History: 1942-1953

By leviticus barnvear

  • Manhattan Project

    The Manhattan Project begins

  • C.O.R.E. was founded

  • Battle of Midway

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • Battle of Normandy

  • Franklin D Roosevelt reelected

  • Truman becomes president

    Franklin D. Roosevelt dies - Truman steps into office.

  • World's First Automatic Digital Computer

  • Truman Doctrine

  • National Security Act

  • Truman's "Fair Deal"

  • NATO established

  • Chinese Communist Revolution

    Mao Zedong led communist rule in China

  • USSR has the atomic bomb

  • Hydrogen bomb invented

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower elected President

  • Korean War ends