1942-1953

  • Operation Sealion Cancelled

    Operaton Sealion, Hitler's operation to invade England, is cancelled.
  • Rosevelt pulls out of the Phillipines

    Rosevelt had General MacArthur pull out of the Phillipines as we had been weakened.
  • Tehran Conference

    President Roosevelt met in Tehran with Stalin and Churchill to discuss plans.
  • D-Day

    American forces alongside their allies invaded France in an important battle that gave them ground in the war.
  • The manhattan project

    As fear of Germany creating an atomic bomb grew, America made a giant research facility which would study atomic energy and create atomic weaponry.
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The US dropped two atomic bombs in Japan, causing the Japanese to surrender.
  • National Security Act

    Truman signed the national security act and with this came the creation of the CIA and other groups such as the National Security Council.
  • Korean Armistice

    North Korea signs armistice and korea is divided with the 38th parallel.