A civil rights leader that proposed a march on Washington D.C. to address discrimination in hiring in the war industries:

Japanese bombing of a US naval base in Hawaii. This event brought the US into World War II:

Prison camps in which Japanese-Americans were held during World War II:

When a nation prepares for war, gathers troops and supplies, and makes changes at home to help with the war effort:

Americans used resources wisely during the war; they carpooled, grew gardens, collected scrap metal, etc.

During the war, each American household was only allowed to use certain amounts of important things like meat, sugar, gas, etc.

This was the invasion of German controlled territory in France. It marked the turning point in the war against Germany:

The Germans were pushed back into Germany. The Soviets reached the German capital first and the Germans eventually surrendered:

This victory over Japan was the turning point of the war in Pacific:

This was a secret weapon developed by the US and used against Japan. The US dropped these on two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The secret program that developed the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico:

A period of tension/competition between the US & Soviet Union. There was never an official direct war between the two nations, but it did cause armed conflict in other nations across the world.