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Roosevelt created this bill to bring scientists into the war effort to improve radar, sonar, locating submarines, and the use of pesticides.
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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The code name for research work for the first atomic bomb.
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Fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents and rationed foods.
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Roosevelt signed an order to remove of people of Japanese acentry from California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona.
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Women would work in noncombat positions as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians, and pilots.
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A turning point in thePacific War, soon the Allies began "island hopping". Island by island they won territory back from the Japanese, and began moving closer to Japan.
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The German commander surrendered, two days later, his starving troops also surrendered.
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The last of the Afrika Korps surrendered after months of fighting.
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Congress passed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, better known as the GI Bill of Rights, which provided education and training for soldiers.
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The first day of the Allies invasion in Normandy, France.
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The first Soviet troop came upon one of the Nazi death camps and worked hard to bury and burn all evidence of their hideous crimes.
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The Allies had freed France, Belgium, and Lexembourg.
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Americans capture their first German town, Aachen.
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Hitler hoped that a victory would split American and British forces and break up Allied supply lines. Tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines that gave this desperate lastditch offensive.
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U.S marines invaded Okinawa.
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President Roosevelt had a stroke and died, that night Vice President Harry S. Truman became the nation's 33rd president.
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The Allies celebrated V E Day, victory in Europe Day, when the war was finally over.
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The first test of the new bomb took place in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Truman ordered the military to make final plans for dropping two atomic bombs on Japanese targets.
