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Executive Order 9066
The cause of the presidential executive order was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Roosevelt was under military and political pressure, so he signed and issued the executive order on February 19, 1942. The stable lives of many Japanese Americans on the West Coast were undermined by the administrative order, and a large number of Japanese Americans, German Americans and Italian Americans were taken into concentration camps. -
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway is a large-scale naval battle between the U.S. Navy and the Japanese Navy in the waters off Midway Island during World War II. The naval battle lasted from June 4 to June 7. The Battle of Midway Island was a turning point in the Pacific War. With the victory of this battle, the U.S. military reversed its passiveness since the war, and the Japanese Navy lost its strategic leadership since the war. -
Chicago Pile-1, tIt is the world's first artificial nuclear reactor
It is the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, completed under the guidance of physicists Arthur Compton and Enrico Fermi. It is the first nuclear reaction chain provided by the University of Chicago for the Manhattan Project. -
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Operation Overlord
The codename of the Battle of Normandy, 155,000 allied forces participated in this battle, including the US army and 11 other countries. It was the largest maritime invasion in history, and the war eventually led to the liberation of Paris by the Allies. -
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Harry S. Truman served as the 33rd President of the United States
President Roosevelt died suddenly on April 12, 1945, and Vice President Harry S. Truman assumed the post of president and assumed the role of commander-in-chief of the Second World War. He also approved the use of nuclear bombs in Japan. -
Trinity(nuclear test)
The final result of the Manhattan Project, the world's first nuclear bomb, was detonated in the desert of New Mexico. As a result, it was measured that the actual tnt equivalent of the nuclear bomb was 22 kilotons. -
assassination of Harry S. Truman
In New York City, nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo made a plan to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. White House police officer Leslie William Coffelt successfully defended US President Harry S. Truman, but he died. -
Relief of Douglas MacArthur
On April 11, 1951, US President Harry S. Truman lifted Douglas MacArthur's command, because MacArthur issued a statement that conflicted with government policy. -
Ivy Mike, the world's first hydrogen bomb
Ivy Mike was detonated on November 1, 1952. The test site was located in Enewetak Atoll. The entire island was evaporated by the powerful power of the hydrogen bomb. The power of the hydrogen bomb is equivalent to 10.4 megatons of TNT
