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Germany invades the Soviet Union
Code name "Operation Barbarossa". The invasion used 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. -
Pearl Harbor
There was many reasons why the Japenese bombed the US at Pearl Harbor. They acted the US because they had cut of the oil trade from Japan. Also because they wanted to weakin the US's Naval forces so they could continue their raid in the Phillipeans. -
Doolittles raid
16 bombers in the attack they bombed tokyo japan it dampended spirits in japan -
Japanese Relocated
Anyone in America who was Japanese were sent to relocation camp centers because they didnt know if there would be anymore threats -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Done by aircrafts that took off from huge aircraft carriers, -
Zoot Suit Riots
The Zoot Suit Riots were in part the effect of the infamous Sleepy Lagoon murder which involved the death of a young Latino man in a barrio near Los Angeles. -
women enlisted in army
The Waac Womens auxiliary army corps the waac made them get benefits -
Rososevelt elected
Theodore Roosevelt was elected to his fourth term. -
D-Day
The united states and britian invade normany beach and go after germany to sto hitlers raid -
Battle of the bulge
Battle of the Bulge was the largest and bloodiest battle fought in World War -
Battle for Okinawa
Us marines invaded Okinawa the japs unleashed more then 1,900 kmaikaze attacks on the allies during the Okinawa Campaign -
US drops bomb on Hiroshima
The United States Droped this bomb to end the war. They told the Japs but they just ignored it. The bomb was called little man. -
US bombs Nagasaki
A second Nuke was dropped on Nagaski Japan and Japan had no other choice but to surrender. Because they didnt want anymore inicent people to get hurt -
Harry Truman elected president
Harry Truman was elected in 1948. He was the final running mate of Teddy Roosevelt. He was the 33rd president of the united states -
Fidel Castro to power
Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba -
John F. Keenedy is elected President
JFK is elected -
Korean War
North Korea attacks South Korea with a surprise attack across the 38th parallel. Withen a few days north korea had already penatrated deep into south korea -
Construction Of Berlin Wall
The construction of the Berlin Wall begins by the Soviet bloc, segregating the German city, previously held in four sectors by Allied forces, including the United States. The wall would last for twenty-eight years. -
National Park Service expands
The National Park Service extends its lands into the U.S. Virgin Islands when President John F. Kennedy proclaims the Buck Island Reef as a National Monument. The reef includes an underwater nature trail and one of the best marine gardens in the Caribbean Sea. -
Panama Canal Incident
The Panama Canal incident occurs when Panamanian mobs engage United States troops, leading to the death of twenty-one Panama citizens and four U.S. troops. -
Muhammad Ali
1960 Olympic champion Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) wins the World Heavyweight Championship in Boxing from current champ Sonny Liston. -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King speaks at a civil rights rally on the courthouse steps of the Alabama State Capitol, ending the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march for voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two significant portions of the act; the outlawing of the requirement of potential voters to take a literacy test in order to qualify and the provision of federal registration of voters in areas with less than 50% of all voters registered. -
Medicare
Medicare, the government medical program for citizens over the age of 65, begins. -
First black to congress
The first black United States Senator in eighty-five years, Edward Brooke, is elected to Congress. Brooke was the Republican candidate from Massachusetts and former Attorney General of that state. -
Martin Luther King assinated
Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while standing on a motel balcony by James Earl Ray. -
apollo is launched
The Apollo program completes its mission. Neil Armstrong, United States astronaut, becomes the first man to set foot on the moon four days after launch from Cape Canaveral. His Apollo 11 colleague, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. accompanies him. -
Kent State shooting
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen were on the Kent State college campus to maintain order during a student protest against the Vietnam War. For a still unknown reason, the National Guard suddenly fired upon the already dispersing crowd of student protesters, killing four and wounding nine others. -
President Richard Nixon ends the United States Gold standard monetary policy known as the Nixon Shock
President Richard Nixon ends the United States Gold standard monetary policy known as the Nixon Shock -
26th amendment
Lowerd the voting age from 21 to 18 -
Richard M Nixon reelelcted
Richard Nixon is reelected to serve his 2 term. -
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 was the final mission of the United States' Apollo lunar landing program, and was the sixth landing of humans on the Moon. Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 remains the most recent manned Moon landing and the most recent crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit. -
United States Signs cease fire with north Vietnam and Vietcong
On January 15, 1973, President Richard Nixon ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr Henry Kissinger, the National Security Affairs advisor to the president, returned to Washington from Paris France with a draft peace proposal -
Watergate Scandal
political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974 — the only resignation of a U.S. President. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, con -
Bill Gates founds microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies. -
President Ford almost assinated twice
President Ford survives two assassination attempts in a 17-day time span. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans lined the streets of Memphis for this funeral -
Jim Carter
Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as President -
Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, which is America's most serious nuclear power plant accident in its history.
