Snapshots in history
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Hoping to finally end World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Three days later, the U.S. dropped another massive bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. The result was total devastation. Within seconds of the blasts, more than 120,000 men, women and children died. Thousands more would die from radiation sickness in the months to come. The war was over but the ongoing fear of nuclear destruction had begun.
5) Pearl Harbor
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans were killed and the battleships of the Pacific Fleet lay in ruins. The brutal attack launched the United States into war, a conflict that engulfed the world.
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September 11: attack on America
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The collapse of the Soviet Union: the end of an empire
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Miranda v. Arizona: the rights of the accused
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The Republican Party: the story of the Grand Old Party
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The Scopes trial: the battle over teaching evolution
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The Iran-Contra affair: political scandal uncovered
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The national grape boycott: a victory for farmworkers
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The Teapot Dome Scandal: corruption rocks 1920s America
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Third parties: influential political alternatives
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c2009
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On June 28, 1914, a nineteen-year-old Bosnian student named Gavrilo Princip stepped up to an open car on a Sarajevo street and fired two shots. The bullets from Pricip's gun killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife, Sofie. The gunfire also set the stage for the most disastrous armed conflict the world had yet experienced. Exactly one month after the assassination in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declared...
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The Bataan Death March: World War II prisoners in the Pacific
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Dred Scott v. Sandford: a slave's case for freedom and citizenship
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The hundred days offensive: the Allies' push to win World War I
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Tiananmen Square: massacre crushes China's democracy movement
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