United States Timeline:1940's

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    United States Timeline:1940's

  • U.S Congress reintroduces the draft

    U.S Congress reintroduces the draft

    the u.s congress approves the first peacetime conscription draft in anticipation of possible American involvement in WWII.
  • Franklin D.Roosevelt is elected 3rd term as president of the U.S.

    Franklin D.Roosevelt is elected 3rd term as president of the U.S.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected a 3rd time.
  • Lend-Lease Act is approved

    Lend-Lease Act is approved

    this law gave FDR authority to aid great britain with ships and war materials.
  • RKO pictures releases Citizen Kane

    RKO pictures releases Citizen Kane

    movie
  • Manhattan Project begins

    Manhattan Project begins

    Discovery of the Atomic bomb
  • Mount Rushmore is completed

    Mount Rushmore is completed

    National memorial carving in the granite of Mt. Rushmore near Keystone
  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Executive order 9066 is signed

    Executive order 9066 is signed

    Gave the military powers to ban any citisen from an area stretching from Washington to California to Arizona.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Battle at Midway
  • Detroit, Michigan race riots

    Detroit, Michigan race riots

    rioting between blacks and whites in Detroit
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied troops fought Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy
  • G.I. bill of rights signed into law

    G.I. bill of rights signed into law

    a law that provided a range of benefits for returning WWII veterans.
  • americans land at Iwo Jima

    americans land at Iwo Jima

    (operation detachment) a major battle in the US captured the Iwo Jima from Japanese empire.
  • Harry S. Truman becomes president

    Harry S. Truman becomes president

    33rd president of the U.S
  • Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders

    when Hitler committed suicide, Germany surrenders to the US
  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    America dropped the stomic bomb on the japanse.
  • First meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

    First meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

    one of the 6 principal organizations of the united nations and only where all are equal.
  • National basketball association of america is founded.

    National basketball association of america is founded.

    (NBA) professional basketball league. there were 29 in the US
  • Jackie Robinson debuts at first base fro Brooklyn Dodgers

    Jackie Robinson debuts at first base fro Brooklyn Dodgers

    First black MLB player of the modern area
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    first black MLB player in the US of the modern era
  • President Truman is re-elected

    President Truman is re-elected

    Truman got re-elected
  • NATO is formed

    NATO is formed

    self-defense against soviet aggression