The U.S. history timeline 1942-1953

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  • Congress of Racial Equality

  • Office of Price Administration

  • Executive Order 9066

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War to designate specific areas as military areas. Eventually, the order was to send Japanese-Americans to concentration camps.

  • Doolittle Raid

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    Battle of the Coral Sea.

    Battle of the Coral Sea. This is the first aircraft carrier battle, the U.S. Lexington sank, Yorktown heavy damage, Japanese Shōkaku heavy damage, Shōhō sank.

  • Japanese occupation of the Philippines

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    Battle of Midway.

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    Operation Torch

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    Guadalcanal Campaign

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    Casablanca Conference.

    Casablanca Conference. Roosevelt and Churchill attended the conference, which discussed the late world War II wars in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Pacific, and the subsequent war against the Axis powers.

  • Allied invasion of Sicily

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    Cairo Conference

    Cairo Conference. Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt attended to discuss strategies for counterattacking Japan and arrangements for the post-war international situation.
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    Tehran Conference.

    Tehran Conference. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin participated in the conference and reached a consensus on launching a second wave of attacks against Nazi Germany, signed declarations and agreements on the war against Germany and post-war issues, and recognized the independence of Iran.

  • Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944

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    The Battle of Casino

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    Bretton Woods Conference

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    Dumbarton Oaks Conference.

    Dumbarton Oaks Conference. With the participation of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain, the organization of the Post-war United Nations was basically agreed upon.
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    Battle of Peleliu

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    Battle of Leyte Gulf

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    Battle of the Bulge

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected president of the United States for a fourth term.

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    Yalta Conference.

    Yalta Conference. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin attended. Formulated the new world order after The Second World War and guidelines for the distribution of the interests of the great powers.
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    Battle of Iwo Jima

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    Battle of Okinawa

  • Roosevelt died and Vice President Harry Truman became the 33rd president.

  • Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally

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    Potsdam Conference

  • The United States dropped an atomic bomb called Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • The United States dropped an atomic bomb called Fat Man on Nagasaki, Japan.

  • The Japanese empire announced its unconditional surrender to the Allied powers.

  • Aboard USS Missouri, the Japanese held a surrender ceremony and formally signed their surrender.

  • Founding of the United Nations.

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    Nuremberg Trials.

  • Employment Act of 1946

  • Iron Curtain.

    Iron Curtain. An anti-Soviet, anti-communist speech delivered by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, USA.

  • Independence of the Philippines

  • United States Atomic Energy Act of 1946

  • President's committee on civil rights

  • The Marshall Plan

  • National Security Act of 1947

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Federal Employee Loyalty Program

  • Taft–Hartley Act

  • Presidential Succession Act

  • The United States Department of War is divided into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force.

  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

  • Organization of American States

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    Berlin-Blockade

  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed

  • National Military Establishment changed its name to The Department of Defense.

  • The Soviet Union successfully tested its first nuclear weapon, the RDS-1

  • The Government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan and the People's Republic of China was founded.

  • The German Democratic Republic was founded

  • Joseph Raymond McCarthy gains power and McCarthyism begins

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    Korean War

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    Operation Chromite

  • Internal Security Act

  • Internal Security Act

  • Twenty-second Amendment；Amendment XXII.

    Twenty-second Amendment；Amendment XXII. The president can serve only two four-year terms, and those who have already served two terms are not allowed to run again after another term

  • Relief of Douglas MacArthur

  • Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty

  • Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty

  • Treaty of Peace with Japan

  • Mutual Security Act

  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

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    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). Ending the long-standing segregation in American society whereby whites and blacks had to attend separate public schools

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated as the 34th president of the United States

  • Korean Armistice agreement