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	Event Summary

1941:	US & Canada Enter WWII.
1942:	A visible amount of plutonium is isolated for the first time. Brazil enters WWII. Initiation of The Battle of Stalingrad Fermi Oversees 1st Artificial Chain Reaction and build 1st nuclear fission reactor
1943:
1944:	Final Entry in the Diary of Anne Frank Paris freed: Charles de Gaulle marches down the Champs Elysees
1945:	Detonation of the first fission bomb in New Mexico desert "Little Boy" lands on Hiroshima, Japan Unconditional Japanese surrender Indonesian declaration of independence from the Netherlands
1946:	Gamow proposes big-bang cosmology
1947:
1948:	Bardeen, Brattain, & Shockley demonstrate the first transistor
1949:
1950: