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Mount Rushmore
Who: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
Where: Pennington County, South Dakota
When: 1927 - 1941 -
Rosie the Riveter
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Pearl Harbor
Who: Japanese & Americans
What: United States Naval base
Where: Hawaii territory own by United States
When: December 7, 1941
Why: The Japanese wanted to prevent U.S from sending fleets into the Pacific. The plan ultimately backfired. -
Pentagon opened
When: 1941
Where: Washington, DC 22202
Who: Headquarters for the United States Department of Defense
Why: It was built to house nearly 30,000 people to help win World War 2
What: Headquarters of United States Department of Defense -
White Rose (Nazis)
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Draft Age
Who: Males in the United States
Where: United States
When: 1942
What: Compulsory recruitment for military service.
Why: The age was lowered to 18 because the age required to vote was 18, so the age for the draft was lowered to 18 -
D-Day
Who: "Australia, Canada, Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia, Greece, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States"
Where: Normandy
When: June 6, 1944
What: The largest land, sea, and air invasion in history
Why: The area was invaded to liberate North West Europe from German occupation -
Hiroshima
When: August 6, 1945
Who: United States and Japan
Where: Hiroshima, Japan
What: A city in Japan that was hit with a nuclear bomb
Why: To end World War 2 -
Nagasaki
When: August 6, 1945
Who: United States and Japan
What: The second nuclear bomb dropped on Japan by the United States
Where: Nagasaki, Japan
Why: To end World War 2 -
ColdWar
When: 1947 - 1991
Who: Russia and United States (Soviet Union)
Where: United States, Soviet Union, Europe, East Asia
What: A war between the United States (and its NATO allies) and the Soviet Union
Why: Happened for several reasons, one reason is Americans feared a communist attack. Another the current president of the U.S. didn't like Stalin. -
Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO
