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1944 |
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1945 |
Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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United Nations founded |
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Germany surrenders |
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Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders
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1946 |
Baby boom begins |
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1947 |
Levittown, NY begun
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1948 |
Marshall Plans helps European economic recovery |
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1949 |
Soviet Union explodes atomic bomb |
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1950 |
McCarthy hearings begin |
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Korean War begins |
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Rosenbergs charged with treason |
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1953 |
Korean War ends |
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1954 |
Senate condemns McCarthy |
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1955 |
AFL and CIO merge |
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1956 |
Interstate highway system launched
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1958 |
Congress passes National Defense Education Act to improve math, science, and foreign language education |
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An interactive, expanded timeline for the period after 1876 can be found in Program 26.
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