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  1. Description. Many aspects of life in the United States are the same as it was in Harry Truman's time. Life is still centered around families, school, and work. However, much has changed. Nightly family dinners are now much more likely to be in the car on the way to practice or activities. Homes look very different than they did the 1940s.

  2. Historical Map of North America & the Caribbean (14 August 1945 - Victory in World War II: In 1944, the Western Allies liberated France and, together with the Soviet Union, conquered Germany the following year. That August, the US used the newly invented atomic bomb to help force the Japanese surrender and bring the Second World War to an ...

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  4. August 9 – Atomic bombing of Nagasaki: United States B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man", on the Japanese city of Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. local time, resulting in between 39,000 and 80,000 deaths. August 14 (August 15 in Japan) – Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio.

  5. Feb 17, 2015 · 5) What the US might look like now if Europeans hadn’t come. United States Geological Survey. It’s impossible to say what North America would look like today if Columbus had never arrived, but ...

  6. all-time high in the United States during WWII. In A History of America in 100 Maps, Susan Schulten notes that world maps sold out in the United States on the day the Nazis invaded Poland, and by 1942, Newsweek had dubbed Washington, D.C. “a city of maps.” To capital-ize on this tremendous popular interest in geography,

  7. The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states; the Cold War had begun. African Americans united and organized, and a triumph of the ...

  8. Historic map. Map size: 8000x6400 px. Download: world/mir-1945.jpg. 12620 x 10443. 29.82 Mb. On-line historical map: Political map of the world in 1945.

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