1942 - 1953

By janetfernando

  • Congress of Racial Equality

    African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Period: to

    1942 - 1953

  • Japanese American Internment

    People of Japanese ancestry were put into concentration camps. Part of Executive Order 9066.

  • Doolittle Raid

    An air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air operation to strike the Japanese Home Islands.

  • Battle of the Coral Sea Begins

    Major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.

  • Battle of the Coral Sea Ends

  • Battle of Midway Begins

    The United States Navy defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable.

  • Battle of Midway Ends

  • Battle of Guadalcana Begins

    Operation Watchtower was a military campaign fought on and around the island of Guadalcanal.

  • Revenue Act

    Increased individual income tax rates, increased corporate tax rates, and reduced the personal exemption amount.

  • Cocoanut Grove Fire

    Deadliest nightclub fires in the U.S. killing 492 people.

  • Casablanca Conference

  • Battle of Guadalcanal Ends

  • Allied invasion of Italy

  • Detroit Race Riot

  • Allied invasion of Sicily

  • Cairo Conference

  • Tehran Conference

  • D-Day

  • G.I Bill

  • Battle of Peleliu Begins

  • Battle of Leyte Begins

  • Battle of Peleliu Ends

  • Battle of the Bulge Begins

  • Battle of Leyte Ends

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President)

  • Battle of the Bulge Ends

  • Yalta Conference

  • Battle of Iwo Jima Begins

  • Battle of Iwo Jima Ends

  • Battle of Okinawa Begins

  • President Roosevelt Death

  • Harry Truman (33rd President)

  • Germany Surrenders

  • Battle of Okinawa Ends

  • Atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

  • World War II Ends

  • United Nations Established

  • Winston Churchill “Iron Curtain” Speech

  • Polaroid Camera Invented

  • Presidential Succession Act

  • Marshall Plan

  • Organization of American States: Alliance of North America and South America

  • Harry Truman Officially Elected

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed

  • Soviet Atomic Bomb Test

  • Korean War Begins

  • Failed assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman.

  • 22nd Ammendment

  • ANZUS

  • Dwight Eisenhower (34th President)

  • Korean War Ends

  • Korean Armistice Agreement