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Executive Order 9066
Executive order 9066 is signed by President Roosevelt. This order would place over 100,000 Japanese-Americans on the west coast of the United States into detention camps. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged the armed revolt to prevent deportations to Nazi-run extermination camps. They fought hard, but they were eventually stopped. -
D-Day
The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
The Presidential Election of 1944
Franklin D. Roosevelt beat his opponent Thomas E. Dewey, and began his 4th term as President of the United States of America. -
The Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt passed due to a large cerebral hemorrhage. He was 63 at the time. -
The Death of Hitler
Hitler and his wife Eva Braun took their own lives. -
The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States dropped the first two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the final stages of World War II. -
The end of World War ll
The Japanese surrendered formally ending WWll. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe. -
The Cold War Starts
The Soviets unveiled the Zhdanov Doctrine in October of 1947. The Zhdanov Doctrine claimed that the United States was seeking global domination through American imperialism, as well as the collapse of democracy. The Americans reacted to the Zhdanov Doctrine with the so-called “Long Telegram,” written by George Kennan, Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow.Because of George Kennan and his Long Telegram, official US policy became the “containment” of Communism. -
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was shot in the chest by Nathuram Godse. -
The Presidential Election of 1948
Harry Truman was elected as the President of the United States of America. -
The Start of the Korean War
A war broke out between North Korea and South Korea when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of skirmishes along the Korean border. -
The Presidential Election of 1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected as the President of the United States. -
The end of the Korean War
The fighting ended when an armistice was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone to separate North and South Korea, and allowed the return of prisoners.