World War 2 - the Boom - Korea

 1941 USO formed
1942 Alcan Highway
1943 Lebanon declares independence
1944 Paris Liberated
1945 Ho Chi Minh declares independence from France
1946 Atom bomb tests begin in Bikini Atoll
1947 Roswell UFO incident
1948 Sri Lanka gains independence from Britain
1949 Soviet Union tests first atomic bomb
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 1950 Joe McCarthy begins Communist hearings in D.C.
 1951 King Abdullah of Jordan assassinated
 1952 Puerto Rico becomes self-governing Commonwealth
 1953 Elizabeth crowned Queen of England
 1954 American Motor Cars created by merger
 1955 Atomic clock developed
 1956 Elvis Presley releases first hit
 1957 Poppa Doc Duvalier becomes president of Haiti
 1958 Sir Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole
 1959 First HIV case in Belgian Congo

World War II

The War to end all wars, World War I, was only one generation in the past when the next global conflict erupted. Within about four years the United States had primarily contributed to the defeat of Germany and Japan on opposite sides of the globe.

Nazis Enter Rhineland
The Invasion of Poland 1939
The World War
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World War II American Planes
Tanks of World War II
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Images of World War 2
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Images of World War 2 Soldiers
Images of World War 2 Navies
Images of World War 2 Artillery

The Boom

War over and many soldiers coming home. Results: baby boom and our economy bursting at the seams.

The Baby Boom
The Population Boom
Post-War Economic Growth
 

Korean War

Less than a decade after World War II, North Korea invaded South Korea. Another war, today still unsettled.

Overview
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The Korean War
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Helicopters Used in Korean War

The P-51 Mustang Fighter plane became the premier combat craft once paired with the British Merlin engine

An estimated 80 million people died as a result of the World War 2 conflict

Germany flew the ME-262 jet fighter in late World War 2 but the jet fighter came into prominence during the Korean conflict