Graphic Decade
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1940s 
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| 40 B of Britain: July 10 |
41 Ger invades Rus June 22 Italy & Ger invade Egypt Sept 1 Pearl Harbor December 7. |
| 42 Japan captures Manila: Jan Gazala: Feb B of Stalingrad Sept 6 B of El Alamein: Oct 23 Tobruk: Nov |
43 Kasserine Pass B of Kursk July 1-13, Salerno Beach: Sept |
| 44 Anzio: January June 6, D-Day: Allied forces landed on the Normandy coast of France. St Tropez: August B. of the Bulge Dec |
45 The Yalta Conference was held in the Crimea in February. Roosevelt, Britain's Winston Churchill, and the USSR's Joseph Stalin discussed the terms of peace and the postwar world. On May 7, Germany surrendered ending World War II in Europe. April 12 FDR dies.  On June 26, the United
Nations Charter was signed. From July 16 to August 2, Harry Truman attended the Potsdam Conference. After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered in September. 1st Lady: Elizabeth |
| 46 Ordered the seizure of the nation's railroads in the face of a strike threat |
47 On March 12, Truman outlined the Truman Doctrine -- U.S. aid would go to Greece, Turkey and other nations "threatened by armed minorities and outside pressure." In June, the Marshall Plan, a plan to provide economic and technical assistance to war-torn Europe, was announced. Congress overrode a presidential veto of the Taft Hartley labor bill. |
| 48 In a "political upset," T defeated 303-189-39EV Thomas E. Dewey Strom Thurmond to win a full term. |
49 In January, granted recognition of the new state of Israel. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established. |
1940s
08/04/99 GRAPHIC HISTORY