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Battle of the Atlantic
Destroyers were sent to the Atlantic, its known to be the longest battle in WW2. Began when British declaring war against Germany in Sep 1939 and ended in May 1945 with Germany surrendering to Allies -
Japanese Internment Camps
From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. -
U. S. halts Japanese
Japanese were seeking to control the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea, but their plans were intercepted by Allied forces. -
Battle of Stalingrad
brutal military campaign between Russian forces and Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. The battle is infamous as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare: From August 1942 through February 1943, nearly two million people were killed or injured in the fighting12 -
Chicago Pile 1
The world's first nuclear reactor, built by Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi. Built underneath the University of Chicago's Stagg Field football stadium. -
Kidney dialysis machine
The first artificial kidney machine was developed by Willem Kolff -
Allies invade Italian mainland
British invades Italian Peninsula, On the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender, -
D-day
landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Largest seaborne invasion in history. -
France invaded
Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944 -
Philippines liberated
Japanese Army overran all of the Philippines during the first half of 1942. The liberation of the Philippines commenced with amphibious landings on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte -
Yalta Conference
FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Japanese War. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dies from a Hemorrhagic stroke -
Harry S. Truman
After FDR Harry S. Truman takes over office -
Germany surrenders
Germany signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. -
Pearl Harbo
Japans surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ended in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. -
End of WW2
Sept 1,1939- Sept 2, 1945 Japanese formally signs the instrument of surrender on board the USS Missouri, marking the official ending of World War II. -
Iron Curtain speech
delivered by Winston Churchill at Fulton, Missouri where he said "An iron Curtain has descended across Europe", the curtain refereeing to communism. -
Microwave ovens invented
American engineer Percy Spencer is generally credited with inventing the modern microwave oven after World War II from radar technology developed during the war. Named the "Radarange", it was first sold in 1946. -
General purpose computers
John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are the scientists credited with the invention of the general-purpose electronic digital computer started in 1943 finished in 1946 -
Cold War
Began when the Soviet-backed North Korean People's Army invaded its pro-Western neighbor to the south. -
Taft-Hartley Act
aka The Labor Management Relations Act. It outlawed the "closed" shop, made unions liable for damages that resulted from jurisdictional disputes among themselves, and required union leaders to take a non-communist oath. -
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
Was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957 -
Marshall Plan
Also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. -
Executive Order 9981
President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. -
Transistor Radio
US scientists William Shockley, Walter Brattain and John Bordeen invented the world's first solid-state amplifier, which they named a 'transistor' -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet Union lifts its 11-month blockade against West Berlin -
Russia exploded the bomb
remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning." -
Credit cards
Introduced by the Diners' Club, Inc. Could be used at a variety of establishments -
Korean War
Began when soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. First invasion during Cold war -
Twenty-second Amendment
Limits the President to two terms FDR was the only president to serve more than two terms -
Dwight Eisenhower elected President
United States presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election -
Aqualung
introduced the world to scuba diving, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan developed the first “aqua-lung” demand regulator
