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#World War II

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People (9)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander, 34th President, and the man who warned America about itself
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Four-term president who led America through the Great Depression and World War II
George S. Patton
America's most aggressive — and most controversial — World War II commander
Grace Hopper
Pioneer of computer programming and inventor of the first compiler
Harry S. Truman
The haberdasher from Missouri who dropped the bomb, integrated the military, and contained the Soviets
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Director of the Manhattan Project and father of the atomic bomb
Jesse Owens
Four Gold Medals at Hitler's Olympics, 1913–1980
Norman Rockwell
America's most beloved illustrator — and a more complicated artist than his reputation suggests
Robert Goddard
Pioneer of modern rocketry who launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926
Places (2)
Hawaii
America's fiftieth state — a Pacific kingdom annexed, attacked, and transformed
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The Secret City That Built the Uranium for the Hiroshima Bomb
Eras (1)
World War II
The global conflict that made America a superpower and reshaped the world order, 1941–1945
Events (9)
Battle of Midway
The naval battle that permanently shifted the balance of power in the Pacific, 1942
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler's Last Gamble in the West, December 1944 – January 1945
D-Day
The June 1944 Allied invasion that broke Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall and sealed the war's outcome in the West
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Atomic Bombings That Ended World War II, August 1945
Internment of Japanese Americans
The forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack of December 7, 1941, that brought America into World War II
Rosie the Riveter
The wartime icon of the women who built America's arsenal
The Manhattan Project
The secret World War II program that built the atomic bomb
World War II
America's 1941–1945 war that defeated the Axis and made it a superpower
Documents (6)
Day of Infamy Speech
FDR asks Congress for war, December 1941
GI Bill
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 — the law that built the American middle class
Korematsu v. United States
The 1944 ruling that upheld Japanese American internment — and was later repudiated
Neutrality Acts of the 1930s
The Congressional Attempt to Legislate America Out of Another World War
The Four Freedoms
FDR's vision for a world worth defending, 1941
The Lend-Lease Act
The law that made America the Arsenal of Democracy before it entered World War II
Concepts (1)
United Nations
The institution America built, funds, defies, and cannot replace
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