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1941
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters WW II
1942
West Coast Japanese Americans interned in camps
Manhattan Project to develop atomic bomb begins
1943
Allies invade Italy
1944
Allied troops land in Normandy on D-Day
1945
Allied firebombing of Dresden
VE Day (Germany surrenders)
An interactive, expanded timeline for the period after 1876 can be found in Program 26.
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