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The Japanese attacked the naval base Pearl Harbor, killing 2,403 Americans and wounding 1,178 of them.
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FDR signed an order that created the biggest secret project that the U.S has ever undertaken, the project that developed the atomic bomb.
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This was the day that Western Allies attempted to free mainland Europe from Nazi Germany.
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FDR dies of intracerebral hemorrhage, a condition where ruptured blood vessels bleed into the brain.
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The Manhattan Project comes to an end as the first atomic bomb is tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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The U.S dropped the first ever deployed atomic bombs in the two most populous cities of Japan, killing almost 250,000 civilians.
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The U.N is created in 1945 after WWII to maintain international peace.
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A speech from President Truman to discourage Greece and Turkey from becoming communist, effectively beginning the Cold War.
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A plan giving Western European countries 13 billion dollars to rebuild their economies.
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This act reorganized foreign policy and military establishment. It also created many federal bodies such as the National Security Council and hired the first Secretary of Defense.
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Western Allies airlifted supplies into Western Berlin after it was cut off by the USSR.
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One of the most important events in the Cold War, after the Berlin Blockade ended, the Western Allies had no doubt that the USSR was an enemy.
