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Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Early in the morning twenty vessels were destroyed along with eight battleships and 300 airplanes they were by Japanese airplanes. Over 2,400 Americans died in the attack and 1,000 were wounded. -
End of World War II
When Japanese surrendered on September 2nd 1945 the war was ended. The Japanese delegation signs the instrument of surrender on board the USS Missouri. -
Korean was begins
This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. In July, American troops had gone in the war on for South Korea’s. It was a war against the forces of international communism itself. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks who is an African American woman, was arrested after not giving up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest starts a bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr, and sets the American civil rights movement. -
John F Kennedy elected President
John F Kennedy is the youngest person to have ever been elected to be president. Kennedy ended up beating Vice President Richard Nixon and he was also the first Catholic to become president.