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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign where the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against big attacks by the German Air Force. The campaign lasted from July 10, 1940 until October 31, 1940. -
Pearl Harbor
There was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against a United States naval Base locates in Hawaii. -
Rationing
Rationing was a way to control the distribution of scarce resources, services, and other goods. It was started in the spring of 1942 and ended in 1946. People were given rationing books that they turn in to get the resources they require. -
Japanese internment camps
People across The United State of Japanese ancestry were put into isolated camps. Approximately between 110,000 and 120,000 people were take to the camps between the years 1942 and 1945. -
Bing Crosby top of Billboard charts
Bing Crosby reached the number one spot on the billboard music charts with his hit White Christmas. That song spent eleven weeks at number one. -
Casablanca was released
Casablanca was a movie about an American who owns a bar in Morocco which was a cross roads for people escaping Europe and the Nazis during the war. -
Rosie the Riveter
This poster was created to encourage women to become wartime workers. It was first seen on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. -
Olympics canceled
As an effect of World War II, the olympics were canceled in both 1940 and 1944 but resumed again in 1948. They were supposed to be held in Tokyo in 1940 but were simply canceled. In 1944, they were scheduled to be held in London but it was then postponed to be held there the next Olympic year, 1948. -
D-day
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Battle of the Bulge
This battle was Germany’s last major offensive campaign against the western front. It occurred from December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945. -
Hiroshima bombed
There were two nuclear bombs dropped in Japan, three days apart. The first in Hiroshima, the second in Nagasaki. At least 129,000 people were killedby the two weapons. To date, these are the only uses of nuclear weapons across the entire world. -
Nagasaki bombed
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Cold War
A tension and threat of war between mostly the United States and Russia but officially between powers in the Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc. The tension was there from 1947 to 1991.
