| -1940 in the USA the first
peace-time draft -1941 "Lend-Lease Act" allows Britain to benefitfrom US Industry in WWII -1941, December 7th, attack on Pearl Harbor draws US into the war -1942 Japanese-Americans are moved to "resettlement camps" -1942 US defeats Japanese fleet at the battle of Midway -1944 Allied Invasion of Normandy -1945, 12 April, Roosevelt dies while still in office -1945 Harry S Turman became US President -1945, May Germany surrenders -1945 August 6th & 9th, A-Bombs dropped in Japan -1945, August 14, Japan surrenders -1945 "Yalta Peace Accord" also brings on the "Cold War" -1947-50 US "Marshall Plan" sends $12 billion to Western Europe -1948 Russia overthrew the democratic government of Czechoslovakia -1948 Berlin blockade. Massive US airlift to supply Berlin -1949 Russia succeeds in building their first A-bomb |
| -1942 Investion of the
atomic reactor -1945, July 16, US first test of A-bomb in New Mexico -1947 transitors invented -1947 first super-sonic airplane |
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