1946-1950

By Burrj

  • Hanford Nuclear

    Hanford Nuclear
    Hanford was built in 1943 and after WWII there was a lull at Hanford. By 1945 Plutonium from the Hanford's Nuclear Reactors went into the Trinity test bomb and the bomb that dropped on Nagasaki.

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    Discussed Europe's post-war reorganization. Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joesph Stalin were the major Allied leaders.

  • Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman
    Truman is elected U.S. President.

  • Hitler

    Hitler
    Hitler Commits suicide by consuming a cyandide capsule then shot himself with a pistol in his underground bunker.

  • United Nations Established

    United Nations Established
    U.N. established which consisted of originally 51 states. The purpose of the U.N. was to bring peace globally,

  • Baby Boom

    Baby Boom
    After WWII there was a dramatic increase of babies.

  • Employment act

    Employment act
    Harry S. Truman signs the Employment Act which gives responsibility of economic stability and inflation and unemployment to the Federal Government.

  • Battle of Alcatraz

    Battle of Alcatraz
    Penitentiary; located in San Francisco Bay. One of the most violent escapes led by Bernard Paul Coy, a bank robber, serving 25 years.

  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson
    First African American to be asked to play in the Major League with Brooklyn Dodgers.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    Attempt to break the blockade. Purpose was to fly food and supplies into West Germany. May 1949 Soviet Union lifted the blockade.