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Mrs. Roosevelt
Roosevelt makes destroyers-for-bases deal with the British -
Pearl Harbor Attack
After the Japenese attacked Pearl Harbor, United States declared war on Japan and therefore World War II. -
The Agreement for the Development of first Atmomic Bomb.
The development of the first atomic bomb is signed into agreement between the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York. -
Race riots in Detroit and Harlem.
The riots cause forty deaths and seven hundred injuries. -
The Normandy Invasion
Americans received word that three years of concerted war efforts had finally culminated in D-day--military jargon for the undisclosed time of a planned British, American, and Canadian action. During the night, over 5,300 ships and 11,000 planes had crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy. -
The greatest continental U.S. tragedy of World War II.
The greatest continental U.S. tragedy of World War IIThe greatest continental U.S. tragedy of World War II occurs when two ships loading ammunition at Port Chicago Naval Weapons Station in California explodes. The accident killed three hundred and twenty people. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt succumbs to a brain hemorrhage.
President Roosevelt succumbs to a brain hemorrhage; Vice President Harry S. Truman assumes the presidency and role as commander in chief of World War II. -
First atomic bomb exploded for testing
The first atomic bomb, the Trinity Test, is exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico, after its production at Los Alamos. -
Atomic Bomb is dropped at Hiroshima. ( 1st time atomic bomb is dropped)
Bombing of Hiroshima. Three days later, the second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. On August 15, Emperor Hirohito of Japan surrenders. -
Executive Order 9981
Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the United States military in signed into effect by President Harry S. Truman. -
ANZUS Treaty
The military alliance which binds Australia and New Zealand and, separately, Australia and the United States to cooperate on defence matters in the Pacific Ocean area. -
Color Televisions
The first color televisions go on sale. -
Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat.
Refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, prompting the boycott and NAACP protect that would lead to the declaration that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional by a federal court. -
Federal-Aid Highway Act
Interstate highway system begins with the signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act. -
Second Term In Office
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for his second term in office.