History of the United States (1941-1964)

The Second World War would be four years before the enemy finally was defeated. On 6 June 1944, the allies fell to the coasts of Normandy during d-day, the largest invasion in history. TheAtomic attacks on Japan in 1945 were of decisive importance. nazi Germany was already defeated some months earlier.

The post-war era in the United States was determined by the ever more stark cold war, the arms race with the Soviet Union and the space race Sputnik crisis accelerated. The war in Korea was the first big test of the cold war and would require many thousands of victims.

The Presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, the successful General from the war, there was one of relative calm. The American people completed the migration from farms to cities, began to transform the economy from a manufacturing base to a service economy and the prosperity of a triumphant America experienced a strong growth. The segregation in the South was slowly broken down by various Civil Rights Acts, laws that took the rasongelijkheid. Constitutional amendments were also adopted in this framework. At the same time were also sown the seeds of the displeasure that would later become the social revolution of the late 1960s.

During the Presidency of John f. Kennedy, the cold war are hottest moments during the Cuban missile crisis in which nuclear war was narrowly avoided when the Soviet Union under heavy pressure offensive withdrew from Cuba Atomic rockets. Kennedy's assassination was a traumatic event in the American psyche that to enter discussion is now much by the many rumors surrounding it.