1942-1953

  • Pearl Harbor

    Due to the Pearl Harbor attack U.S. joins WWII.
  • Executive order of 9066

    Removal of any persons from "exclusion zones" meaning relocating and removing Japanese people.
  • Kidney Dialysis machine invented

    Machine is invented
  • The GI Bill

    The GI Bill offered benefits to returning veterans.
  • D Day

    D Day
  • Cold War Begins

    Cold War Begins
  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    1st bomb on Japan soil by the U.S. named the "fat boy", placed on Hiroshima, Japan.
  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    2nd bomb tested on Japan soil. 3 days after the Hiroshima bomb the U.S. placed another bomb on Nagasaki names the "little boy."
  • World War II ends

    World War II ends
  • 'Iron Curtain'

    The speech 'iron curtain' was presented by Winston Churchill.
  • Marshall Plan

    Truman signed the economy recovery act of 1948
  • NATO

    NATO is formed- mutual defense pact between U.S., Canada, Belgium, France, England, and etc.
  • Germany splits in half

    Germany splits in half
  • Korean War

    Began when North Korea invaded South Korea
  • Conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

    "members of the communists party in the U.S. in the 1930's the two were accused of giving bomb- related documents to the Soviet Union.