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Battle of the Atlantic
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Military Draft
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Mt. Rushmore is completed
Mount Rushmore was completed in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Completed under the direction of Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln. Depicts the most famous presidents carved into the mountain. -
Pearl Harbor
US naval base near honolulu where the japanese made a surprise attack. Japanese fighter planes destroyed 20 american naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded- started war with japan -
Japanese internment
1942-1945
Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to Pearl Harbor -
Completion of the Pentagon
The pentagon building is completed in 1943, which is the united States Department of Defense in Washington,D.C.It was designed by an American architect, George Bergstrom. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie stressed the patriotic need for women to enter the workforce -
Invasion of Italy
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D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord. It resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control
156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. It was the largest invasion in history. -
Okinawa
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Hiroshima
United states dropped an atomic bomb on the island,Hiroshima,in japan on August 8th, 1945. -
Cold war
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Jackie robinson
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn dodgers in 1947, becoming the first African-American baseball player in the major leagues.
