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President Roosevelt issues Executive order 9066, allowing many Japanese to be put in internment camps in the US due to the fear built up after the Pearl Harbor attack.
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Germans surrender at Stalingrad
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Following the resignation of Mussolini months prior, Italy surrenders in the war.
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the US drops two atomic bombs on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, essentially bringing the war to an end on each front
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Hitler is widely believed to have shot himself knowing his defeat and capture would be inevitable.
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The United Nations is created to maintain world peace.
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Nationalists are defeated by communists in China and communism seeds are planted
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Housing on the coast made for veterans who were in need.
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Supplies were flow over and dropped into East Berlin with supplies
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization established
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War between communist North Korea and free South Korea