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Red Scare
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Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore was finished building in the 1940s -
Tuskegee Airmen
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Pentagon Opened
In 1941 the Pentagon was opened as an Administrative building -
Pearl Harbor
Who: Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
What: Surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor
When: December 7, 1941
Where: Hawaii
Why: To destroy important American Fleets -
White Rose
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Draft age change
In 1942 congress approved lowering the draft age to 18 and making its upper limit 37 -
Invasion of Normandy/ D-Day
Who: United States Marine Corps
What: The invasion of Normandy
When: June 6,1944
Where: Normandy, France
Why: To take back French territory -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Who: United States Marine Corps
What: The capturing of island Iwo Jima
When: February 19, 1945
Where: Japan
Why: To capture the Iwo Jima island as a staging area for attacks on the Japanese -
Nagasaki
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Hiroshima
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Cold War
Who: the U.S.
What: A battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
When: 1947
Where: ?
Why: A growing state of geopolitical tension -
Berlin Airlift
Who: Western allies
What: The Soviet Union block the western allies railway, road, and canal access
When: June 24, 1948
Where: Berlin Germany
Why: To stop/ block off supply routes
