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  1. April. April 12: Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd U.S. president upon the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. April 1 – WW II: Battle of Okinawa – U.S. troops land on Okinawa. April 4 – The Holocaust: American troops liberate their first Nazi concentration camp, Ohrdruf death camp in Germany.

  2. Famous Weddings in 1945. Jan 6 Future 41st US President George H. W. Bush (20) weds Barbara Pierce (19) at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York. Jan 29 Actress Gloria Swanson (45) weds William N. Davey. Apr 29 Adolf Hitler (56) marries Eva Braun (33) in the Führerbunker, Berlin.

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  4. Mar 30, 2024 · In conclusion, the year 1945 was a transformative time in American history. It marked the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, and a period of economic growth and prosperity. Despite the challenges and inequalities that existed during this time, it was a year that laid the groundwork for the development of the modern United States.

  5. Timeline 1945-Present. Flexibility in meeting change is vital to the success of American democracy. And seldom has change come so quickly as in this era. After World War II, veterans returned home eager to find jobs and start families. The postwar baby boom, combined with immigration, doubled the U.S. population over the next half century ...

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  6. 2 days ago · John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865) American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, shot and killed at 26 by Union soldier Boston Corbett. 1936 Tammany Young, American actor, dies at 49. 1946 Jim Larkin White, American cave explorer and guide (Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico), dies at 63.

  7. Jul 20, 2022 · Today, Iran is the United States’ fiercest rival in the Middle East. But for most of the twentieth century, the two were close partners with common interests in regional security and oil. In 1953, the CIA even backed a coup in Iran that overthrew a democratically elected prime minister to keep the shah —the hereditary leader of Iran and a U ...

  8. For years debate has raged over whether the US was right to drop two atomic bombs on Japan during the final weeks of the Second World War. The first bomb, dropped on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, resulted in a total death toll of around 140,000. The second, which hit Nagasaki on 9 August, killed around 50,000 people. But was the US justified? We put the question to historians and two ...

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