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Japanese Internment camps
It was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese would be interred in isolated camps. -
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Battle of Coral Sea
was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
U.S. halts Japan
The Japanese were seeking to control the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea, but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces. -
Battle of Stalingrad
It was brutal military campaign between Russian forces and Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. The battle is infamous as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare. -
Chicago Pile
The world's first nuclear reactor, built by Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi. Built underneath the University of Chicago's Stagg Field football stadium. -
Manhattan Project
The first nuclear chain reaction is produced at the University of Chicago in the Manhattan Project, creating fission of the Uranium U-235, under the direction of physicists Arthur Compton and Enrico Fermi. -
Willem Kolff
The first artificial kidney machine was developed. -
Jefferson Memorial
The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Allies invade the mainland
British invades Italian Peninsula, On the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender. -
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Cairo Conference
This was a meeting of Allied leaders in Cairo, Egypt. The official position against Japan during World War II was discussed. -
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Battle of Monte Cassino
A series of four assaults by the Allied forces against the Winter Line in Italy. -
France invaded
Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end. -
D-Day
This landed operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Largest seaborne invasion in history. -
G.I. Bill
The G.I. Bill of Rights is signed into law, providing benefits to veterans. -
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Battle of the Bulge
This was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front of World War II. -
Yalta Conference
FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Japanese War. -
FDR
Dies from a Hemorrhagic stroke. -
Harry Truman
Takes office after FDR dies. -
Germany surrenders
Germany signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West in northwestern France -
Pearl Harbor
Japans surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ended in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. -
End of WW2
Sept 1,1939- Sept 2, 1945 Japanese formally signs the instrument of surrender on board the USS Missouri, marking the official ending of World War II. -
Iron Curtain Speech
It was delivered by Winston Churchill at Fulton, Missouri where he said "An iron Curtain has descended across Europe", the curtain refereeing to communism. -
Microwave ovens
American engineer Percy Spencer is generally credited with inventing the modern microwave oven after World War II from radar technology developed during the war. Named the "Radarange", it was first sold in 1946. -
Computers
John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are the scientists credited with the invention of the general-purpose electronic digital computer started in 1943 finished in 1946. -
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The Cold War
Began when the Soviet-backed North Korean People's Army invaded its pro-Western neighbor to the south. -
Taft-Hartley Act
It outlawed the "closed" shop, made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves, and required union leaders to take a non-communist oath. -
Marshall Plan
Also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. -
Executive Order
President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. -
Radio
US scientists William Shockley, Walter Brattain and John Bordeen invented the world's first solid-state amplifier, which they named a 'transistor'. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet Union lifts its 11-month blockade against West Berlin. -
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Korean War
Began when soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. First invasion during Cold war. -
22nd Amendment
Limits the President to two terms. -
Eisenhower becomes president
United States presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election. -
Nuclear Testing
Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
