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U.S Congress reintroduces the draft
The U.S Congress approves the first peacetime conscription draft in anticipation of possible American involvement in WW2. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt in elected to his third term as President of the United States
Roosevelt was the 39th president. The election was fought int the shadow of WW2. FDR was a democratic candidate, -
Lend- Lease Act is Approves
U.S Supplies Foreign countries with Material -
RKO Pictures releases Citizen Kane
One of the greatest films of time -
Mount Rushmore is completer
Heads of Jefferson, Rosevelt, Washington and Lincon carves into Granite -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack was a surprise. The attack was intended, -
Executive Order 9066 is signed
Authorized secretary of war to prescribe areas as military zones -
Manhattan Project begins
1942-1946 under direction of Major General Leslie Groves -
Battle of Midway
Naval Battle Japanese defeated -
D-Day (Operation Overlord)
Invasion of Normandy, bloody and violent war. -
G.I. Bill of Rights signed into law
The most significan Pieces of legestration ever produced by the federal government -
Americans land atIwo Jima
called operation detachment -
Harry S. Truman becomes president
33rd president of the Unites States -
Germany Surrenders
They surrendered after Adolph Hitler put a bullet in his head -
Detroit, Michigan Race Riots
Whites and blacks fight lots of racial tension. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
90,000- 166,000 people were killed -
Bombing of Nagasaki
60,000- 80,000 people killed -
First meeting of the Unites Nations Feneral Assembly
was in the westminister central hall in london and included representations of 51 nations -
National Basketball association of America is founded
Founded in New York City, The Leauge Adopted its name in 1949 -
Jackie Robinson debuts at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Broke the color line in baseball, First african american to play in major Leagues -
Marshall Plan
Offered the same aid to the soviet union and its allies but they did not accept it -
President Truman is re-elected
ran against Thomas E. Dewey -
NATO is formed
Orginization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby i is meber states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any externam party
