Exhibits
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As 1945 comes to a close, death tolls of the Second World War are still being calculated. In northern China, there are 46 thousand US Marines posted... View "Terrorists strike British bases in Palestine; US Coast Guard command transferred" Exhibit
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In a hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, General Patton succumbs to injuries sustained in an automobile accident. One of his last acts is to shield the American sergeant driving... View "US and England recognize Yugoslavia; United Nations Participation Act of 1945 becomes public law" Exhibit
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As 1945 draws to a close war criminals are being rounded up and trials convening, of which there will be thousands in the coming decades, in all quarters... View "Fleet Admiral Halsey's ticker tape parade in NYC; prospective Class A war criminal Prince Konoe commits suicide" Exhibit
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This week Americans reflect on the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entry into world war four years earlier, very aware that their nation has transformed... View "Chief Prosecuter Joseph Keenan arrives in Tokyo; General Patton sustains spinal injury in automobile accident in Germany; formal censorship imposed in Japan" Exhibit
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Congress considers the meaning of its obligations to the United Nations, and how it impacts control over the country's armed forces. Meanwhile in the Nuremberg Trials, former Nazi... View "Last Japanese unit in Saipan surrenders" Exhibit
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Army General George Marshall, newly retired from post as Army Chief of Staff, is appointed special envoy to China by President Truman. He is charged with... View "Butter rationing ends; Japanese emperor's abdication deemed unnecessary by MacArthur" Exhibit
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Seventy years ago, as still today, there are fears and expectations of nuclear energy, borne from the destruction visited upon two Japanese cities at the end of... View "Second arrest of Japanese war criminals in Tokyo; US Congress works to withdraw Marines from China" Exhibit
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While Korea struggles with an interim military government instead of the hoped-for independence, Japan is occupied with a new ruler--General MacArthur--viewed with something akin to... View "Offensive against communist positions by Chinese nationalists; General Charles de Gaulle beomes head of post-war French government" Exhibit
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Operation Olympic, a combined naval, air, and ground assault to capture Kyushu--and the beginning of what would have been tremendous casualties on both sides--was originally... View "Chinese nationalist forces plan offensive in civil war" Exhibit
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Several million people on both sides of the Hudson River observe a proud nation's Navy Day, celebrated October 27. President Truman reviews the naval fleet on his... View "Japanese surrender in Taiwan; Indonesian separatists riot against former colonial security forces" Exhibit
