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North Africa
May 16 1943 -
Battle of Britain
Oct 31,1940 -
Mount Rushmore sculpture
The four presidents carved on Mount Rushmore National Memorial represent key themes of the nation's history. Historian Doane Robinson conceived the idea for Mount Rushmore in 1923 to promote tourism in South Dakota.The rock of Mt. Rushmore consists of outcroppings of fine-grained granite (a hard, light-colored, igneous rock. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu.Pearl Harbour was a major turning point of WW2 because it brought the Americans into the war.President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy.On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
Japanese internment
Mar 20,1946 -
Midway
American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands.The Battle of Midway was the high water mark for the Japanese. Their navy nearly destroyed was now on the defensive. The Battle of Midway, fought in World War II. -
Rosie the riveter
Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of World War II, representin the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II.Geraldine Hoff Doyle, the inspiration for “Rosie the Riveter,”.Rosie the Riveter appears to have come first in song, not in art. -
Colossus computer
Colossus was an electronic digital computer, built during WWII from over 1700 valves (tubes).The Mansion, Bletchley Park – wartime headquarters of the Government Code and Cypher School. Tommy flowers invented the colossus computer. -
D-day
D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated.D-Day is important for World War II because it was the main Allied invasion of continental Europe.Twelve Allied nations provided fighting units that participated in the invasion, including Australia, Canada, Belgium etc. -
Cold War
01/01/1991 -
Indian independence
The Indian independence movement was a movement from 1857 until 15 August 1947, when India got independence from the British Raj. This created a lot of dissatisfaction among Indians, and two big movements for India's independence took shape.The period of the Second World War saw the peak of the campaigns by the Quit India Movement led by Congress, and the Indian National Army movement led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe.The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery PrograThis left the following countries to participate in the plan: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France etc. -
Berlin Airlift
May 12,1949
