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1942-1953
World War II: the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals -
1942-1953
Hitler's Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, is cancelled -
1942-1953
World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse -
1942-1953
The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, a series of anti-aircraft engagements over the city in response to a rumored but false Japanese attack. It would last until the morning of the following day. -
1942-1953
"Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts -
1942-1953
Nazis require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star -
1942-1953
US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve -
1942-1953
Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered -
1942-1953
Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded by Czech rebels in Prague during Operation Anthropoid -
1942-1953
Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins 1st World War II naval defeat of Japan -
1942-1953
Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon -
1942-1953
Major General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe -
1942-1953
The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb -
1942-1953
1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes -
1942-1953
Gasoline rationed in US -
1942-1953
Hitler declares "Total War" -
1942-1953
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities. -
1942-1953
FDR becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country during wartime -
1942-1953
World War II: United States troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands -
1942-1953
Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June -
1942-1953
Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan -
1942-1953
Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 150,000 strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II -
1942-1953
US President Franklin Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act) -
1942-1953
1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima -
1942-1953
Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for a record fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey -
1942-1953
Admiral Chester Nimitz begins planning assaults on Okinawa and Iwo Jima in Japan -
1942-1953
The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory -
1942-1953
334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs -
1942-1953
Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; it would become the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II -
1942-1953
Battle of Okinawa: US ground forces invade Okinawa during World War II in the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre -
1942-1953
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office and Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd US President -
1942-1953
Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his new wife Eva Braun in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as the Red Army captures the city -
1942-1953
1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project -
1942-1953
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" -
1942-1953
V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone) -
1942-1953
V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan) -
1942-1953
Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of World War II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal but fails - later he is hanged -
1942-1953
US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC -
1942-1953
1st US commemorative coin of an African American, Booker T. Washington (half dollar) -
1942-1953
John F. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives -
1942-1953
US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism -
1942-1953
Harry Truman makes the 1st Presidential address televised from the White House -
1942-1953
Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood -
1942-1953
Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal -
1942-1953
US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb -
1942-1953
Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb -
1942-1953
North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict -
1942-1953
ames Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercia -
1942-1953
United States Air Force flag officially adopted by President Harry S. Truman -
1942-1953
US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany -
1942-1953
Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest -
1942-1953
WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect -
1942-1953
US Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada -
1942-1953
Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech -
1942-1953
American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah -
1942-1953
US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb -
1942-1953
Albert Einstein announces revised unified field theory -
1942-1953
North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel
