1942-1953

By jamesfeng

  • Midway

    The Japanese Fleet put to sea to threaten Midway Island (northwest of Hawaii), hoping to lure the Americans to destruction. In reality it was the Japanese who were ambushed, losing four of their best carriers.

  • Operation ‘Torch’

  • Belgorod-Kharkov

    July-August 1943

  • Stalingrad

    November 1942 to January 1943

  • Normandy

    June–July 1944

  • Operation ‘Bagration’

    June–July 1944

  • Dumbarton Oaks Conference

  • 1944 United States presidential election

    Franklin D. Roosevelt V.S. Thomas E. Dewey

  • Battle of Monte Cassino

    17 January – 18 May 1944 (123 days)

  • G.I. Bill

    On June 22, 1944, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill of Rights, was signed into law.

  • Battle of Leyte

    17 October – 26 December 1944

  • Battle of Peleliu

    15 September – 27 November 194,The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II by the United States military, was fought between the U.S. and Japan during the Mariana and Palau Campaign of World War II, from September to November 1944, on the island of Peleliu.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    19 February – 26 March 1945

  • Battle of Okinawa

    April 1 – June 22, 1945

  • Employment Act of 1946

    Introduced in the Senate as S. 380 by James E. Murray on January 22, 1945
    Committee consideration by Senate Banking, House Expenditures
    Passed the Senate on September 28, 1945
    Passed the House as the Employment-Production Act of 1945 on December 14, 1945
    Reported by the joint conference committee on February ?, 1946; agreed to by the House on February 6, 1946 and by the Senate on February 8, 1946
    Signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on February 20, 1946

  • Atomic Energy Act of 1946

    Introduced in the Senate as S. 1717 by Brien McMahon on December 20, 1945
    Passed the Senate on June 1, 1946
    Passed the House on July 20, 1946
    Signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on August 1, 1946

  • Taft–Hartley Act

    Introduced in the House as H.R. 3020 by Fred A. Hartley, Jr. on April 10, 1947
    Passed the House on April 17, 1947
    Passed the Senate on May 13, 1947
    Reported by the joint conference committee on June 4, 1947; agreed to by the House on June 4, 1947 (320-79) and by the Senate on June 6, 1947
    Vetoed by President Harry S. Truman on June 20, 1947
    Overridden by the House on June 20, 1947
    Overridden by the Senate and became law on June 23, 1947

  • National Security Act of 1947

    An Act to promote the national security by providing for a Secretary of Defense; for a National Military Establishment; for a Department of the Army, a Department of the Navy, a Department of the Air Force; and for the coordination of the activities of the National Military Establishment with other departments and agencies of the Government concerned with the national security.

  • Military Selective Service Act

    An Act to provide for the common defense by increasing the strength of the armed forces of the United States, including the reserve components thereof, and for other purposes.

  • Korean War

    25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953

  • McCarran Internal Security Act

    An Act to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes.

  • McCarran Internal Security Act

    An Act to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes.

  • Mutual Security Act

    An Act to maintain the security and promote the foreign policy and provide for the general welfare of the United States by furnishing assistance to friendly nations in the interest of international peace and security.

  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

    An Act to revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality; and for other purposes.

  • Korean Armistice Agreement

    South Korea never signed the Armistice Agreement due to President Syngman Rhee's refusal to accept the division of Korea. China normalized relations and signed a peace treaty with South Korea in 1992. In 1994, China withdrew from the Military Armistice Commission, essentially leaving North Korea and the UN Command as the only participants in the armistice agreement.