WORLD WAR II AND STATEHOOD, clockwise, from top left, Adm. Chester Nimitz, the USS Arizona in the background, a P-40 Warhawk, members of the 100th Infantry Battalion, industrialist Henry Kaiser, a Hawaiian Airlines DC-3 and sugar workers on strike.

 •  The military in the Islands
 •  Dec. 7, 1941 — Pearl Harbor
 •  Arrests and detention of alien residents
 •  Executive Order 9066
 •  Martial law in Hawai'i
 •  Wartime currency
 •  Joseph Poindexter
 •  Tau Moe
 •  Chester Nimitz
 •  Delbert Metzger
 •  442nd Regimental Combat Team
 •  Webley Edwards and 'Hawaii Calls'
 •  Harry Owens
 •  Hawaiian Airlines
 •  Aloha Airlines
 •  Ruddy F. Tongg Sr.
 •  Hung Wo Ching
 •  United Airlines expands service to Hawai'i
 •  William 'Pat' Patterson
 •  The 1946 tsunami
 •  Glamour days of tourism
 •  Waikiki beachboys
 •  Henry Kaiser
 •  Lyle Guslander
 •  Roy Kelley
 •  Bob MacGregor
 •  Anti-Communist fever
 •  'Hawaii Seven' trial
 •  Koji Ariyoshi: Portrait of an era
 •  John and Aiko Reinecke
 •  Harriet Bouslog
 •  Don Blanding
 •  Dock strike of 1949
 •  Jack Hall
 •  Ah Quon McElrath
 •  International Longshore and Warehouse Union
 •  Rise of the Democratic Party in Hawai'i
 •  Masaji Marumoto
 •  William Quinn
 •  Samuel King
 •  Allan Saunders
 •  Nuclear tests
 •  Pali and Wilson tunnels
 •  Francis I'i Brown
 •  Herman Wedemeyer

MONARCHY
TO ANNEXATION
WORLD WAR II
AND THE MARCH
TO STATEHOOD
20TH TO 21ST
CENTURY
THE TERRITORY
OF HAWAI'I

THE 50TH STATE
HAWAI'I'S CULTURE
AND SOCIETY



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