MAJOR EVENTS
1941
- Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
- Jeep Invented
- Manhattan Project Begins
- Mount Rushmore Completed
- Nazi Rudolf Hess Flies to Britain on a Peace Mission
- Siege of Leningrad
1942
- Anne Frank Goes Into Hiding
- The Bataan Death March
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Japanese-Americans Held in Camps
- Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death
1944
- Ballpoint Pens Go On Sale
- D-Day
- First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
- Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
1945
- FDR Dies
- First Computer Built (ENIAC)
- Germans Surrender
- Hitler Commits Suicide
- Microwave Oven Invented
- Slinky Toy Hits Shelves
- United Nations Founded
- U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1948
- Berlin Airlift
- "Big Bang" Theory Formulated
- "Dewey Defeats Truman" in the Newspaper
- Gandhi Assassinated
- Policy of Apartheid Begun
- State of Israel Founded