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Nominated for a thirdterm at the Democratic party convention in Chicago. Defeted Republican Wendell Wilkie.
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The U.S.congress approved the first peacetime conscription draft in anticipation of possible American involvement in WWII.
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The president could ship weapons, food, or equipment to any country who struggled against the Axis assisted U.S. defence.
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This was a movie that won best writing.
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A carving of George Washinton, Tomas Jefferson, Theadore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
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Japan believed their only thereat was U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and set out to nutralize them.
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Order to incarcerate nearly 120,000 Japanese americans.
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The form was signed to creat a secret project by the United States.
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Japanese intention was to neutralize and isolate Australia and India.
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U.S.A navy fought Japan's navy. Japan still sought to eliminate US as a strategic power.
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Allies landed along the German claimed beaches of Normandy, France. By the end of the day, the Allies gained a foot-hold, although the cost was high with 9,000 soldiers dead or wounded. There were 100,000 soldiers left to fight Hitler along with 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft.
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A law that provided a wide range of benefits for World War II vets. It included low-cost mortages, low-interest loans to start businesses, living expenses, etc.
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This was a major battle in which the U.S. Armed Forces fought for and captured the island from Japan.
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Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt while he was vice president and never received a briefing. When Roosevelt died, Truman inherited a load of problems.
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Germany was basically forced into to signing the agreement or they would have been destroyed. Only the English and Russian versions of the agreement were authorative.
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Hiroshima was bombed August 6 with the first atomic bomb and, three days later on August 9, Nagasaki followed suite. The total killed was between 150,000 and 246,000.
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There were 51 nations represented, they met in Central Hall, Westminster, London.
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Jackie Robinson was instrumental in ending racial segregation. He became the first black Major League Baseball player of the era.
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This was an American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to rebuild European economics.
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With thirty franchised clubs, the National Basketball Association of America is widely considered to be the premier men's league in the world.
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His election is considered to be the greatest election upset in American history; virtually every prediction thought Dewey would win.
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NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic treaty.
