Contemporary political events

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    World War II

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan decided to attack the U.S Naval base in Hawaii.

  • The U.S. Joins WWII

  • D-Day

  • Japan formally signed their surrender

  • The U.S. Bombs Hiroshima

  • The U.S. Bombs Nagasaki

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    The Cold War

  • The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb

  • The U.S detonated the first hydrogen bomb

  • SEATO alliance was signed

    United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in efforts to prevent communism from spreading

  • Russia launched Sputnik

    Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite to be launched.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Watergate burglars are caught and arrested

  • Nixon was the first president to resign

    He resigned in order to dodge a Senate trial which was being held to impeach him.

  • 9/11 Terrorist Attack

  • Barack Obama is elected as the 44th and first African American president

  • Donald Trump was elected President

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    2018-2019 Government Shutdown