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United States Timeline:1940's
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U.S. Congress reintroduces the draft
The U.S. Congress approves the first peacetime consription draft in anticipation of possible American involvement in WWII. -
Franklin D Roosevelt in elested to his third term as president of the United States
Franklin D Roosevelt Ran asainst Wendell Willkie. He won 449 to 82 in electoral votes. The 22nd Amendment makes this the only occassion in history when he would be in for three terms. -
Lend-Lease Act is approved
The Lend-Lease Act is that the United States supplied the United Kingdom, Sovier Union, China, free France and other nations with material. The act was signed a year and a half after outbreak of WWII. -
RKO Pictures releases Citizen Kane
The movie was directed by Orson Welles. 70th anniversary was September 13, 2011. Citizen Kane was said to be the greatest film of all time. The film was praised for innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. -
Mount Rushmore is completed
Mount Rushmore is lcoated in Penninton County, South Dakota, United States. On the Mountain it has the face of George Washinton,Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack was a suprise attack by the Japanese against United States at pearl Harbor Hawii. Bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched six arcraft carriers and damaged eight navy ships and killed 2,402 americans. -
Executive order 9066 is signed ordering Japanese-Americans to be held in relocation camps
The US presidential order issued during WWII by F.D.R. It cleared the way for relocation of Japanese and Americans to internment camps. -
Manhattan Project begins
The research and development program by United States and United Kingdom and Canada to produce the first attomic bomb during WWII -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was the most important naval battle of the Pacific campaign of WWII. The United States defeated an imperial Japanese navy. -
Detroit, Michigan Race Riots
The Race Riots lasted for three days before the troops restored order. The Riots were between the blacks and whites. Throughout the Riots, it killed 34, wounded 433 and had property damage that valued $2million. -
D-Day(Operation Overload)
D-Day was located in Normand Frace. It was the code name for The Battle of Normandy. Operation Overload luanched the invasion of Germany being occupied by Western Europe during WWII by allied forces. -
G.I. Bill Of Rights signed into law
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the G.I Bill of Rights. By funneling money to veterans for tuition, living expenses, books, supplies and equipment, the GI Bill transformed U.S. higher education. Before World War II, fewer than 15 percent of high school graduates, mainly from affluent families, earned college degrees. -
Americans Land at Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima, which means Sulfur Island. Because of the distance between mainland Japan and U.S. bases in the Mariana Islands, the capture of Iwo Jima would provide an emergency landing strip for crippled B-29s returning from bombing runs. -
Harry S. Truman becomes President
During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President. He told reporters, "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me." -
Germany Surrenders
As Russian troops fought to within yards of his subterranean bunker, Adolph Hitler put a pistol to his head, pulled the trigger and closed the curtain on the Third Reich. Before his death, Hitler anointed Admiral Karl Donitz as his successor with orders to continue the fighting. Hitler was unaware that the German surrender had already begun. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced his country's unconditional surrendered. -
First meetin of the United Nations General Assembly
The first session was convened on January 10 1946 in the Westminster Central Hall in London.The name United Nations which was originated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt first appeared in a 1942 declaration of twenty-eight nations allied to fight Germany, Italy, and Japan in World War II. In 1945, as the war wound down, representatives of fifty nations met in San Francisco to adopt a plan for a new international body aimed at ensuring peace and stability in the world. -
Jackie Robinson debuts at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers
An American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era.Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades -
Marshall Plan
On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
President Truman is re-elected
The election is considered to be the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction indicated that Truman would be defeated by Dewey. Both parties had severe ideological splits, with the far left and far right of the Democratic Party running third-party campaigns. -
NATo is formed.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established by 12 Western nations: the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. The military alliance, which provided for a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression, greatly increased American influence in Europe. -
National Basketball Association of America is founded.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the men's professional basketball league in North America. The NBA is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world. It is an active member of USA Basketball, which is recognized by International Basketball Federation as the national governing body for basketball in the United States.
