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The U.S. Congress approves the first peacetime conscription draft in anticipation of possible American involvement in WWll. Ages 16 - 65 had to sign up for the draft.
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They began construction in 1927, it ended in 1941 to insufficient funds.
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the Lend Lease act is approved and signed into law , making it legal to get supplies to UK, China, and France
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F.D.R. was elected as president for a third term, while the U.S. was in wwll.
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Considered the greatest movie of all time, Starring Orson Wells.
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A Surprise military attack by imperal Japanesse navy against the U.S. Naval base. Was attacked by over 300 Japenese bombers killing thousands of people.
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U.S. and Canada beings bomb reserch to make the first atomic bomb
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U.S. ecvutive order signed a issure during WW11. Cleared the way for camps
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the first day of the invasion in Normandy
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The most important naval battle of the pacific campaign in wwll.
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Riots in Detroit between the black and white ethnicity's.
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Provided benifits of retrieving WW11 vetrans
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a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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The end of germany in wwll.
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The biggest point of retaliation by the u.s. to the japanese after pearl harbor.
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The first General Assembly of the United Nations, comprising 51 nations, convenes at Westminster Central Hall in London, England. One week later, the U.N. Security Council met for the first time and established its rules of procedure.
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was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946. The league merged with the National Basketball League NBL in 1949, forming the National Basketball Association NBA.
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was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
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was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947.
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It was his decision to use the nuclear bomb against the Japenese after the bombing of Peral Harbor. He was the 33rd president after Roosevelt.
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is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.