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."--Cover
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September 11: attack on America
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The United States entered World War II after a surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. U.S. officials feared that Japanese Americans would betray their country and help Japan. Nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and moved into relocation centers, which some viewed as concentration camps. The internees, backed by many other Americans, believed that their fundamental rights as U.S. citizens had been denied. Years...
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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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1963 Birmingham church bombing: the Ku Klux Klan's history of terror
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Assassination at Sarajevo: the spark that started World War I
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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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Tiananmen Square: massacre crushes China's democracy movement
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