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Nazi officals joined in torchlight parades against Un-German spirit by thrrowing un-wanted books into big bonfires. Students burned upwqards of 25,000 volumes of books.
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David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers.
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Hewlett-Packard is Founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers.
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World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.
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American airmen dropped Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August. Within the first two months of the bombings, the effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day.
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The first systematic Hollywood blacklist was instituted on November 25, 1947. That was the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to give testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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The loyalty oath controversy began in 1949 and continued until the last suit for back wages was won by a non-signer, and until the American Association of University Professors lifted its censure of the administration. The loss brought about by the controversy is incalculable to the students, and will grow every year without these men, a loss as incalculable as the loss to the faculty members themselves.
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It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War two. The Korean Peninsula was ruled by the Empire of Japan from 1910 until the end of World War two.
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lawsuit was started in 1951. Linda’s father, Oliver Brown, and thirteen other parents tried to enroll their children in the local "white schools" in the summer of 1950, but were turned down because they were African American,they were told they must attend one of the four schools in the city for African American children
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It is 40 feet above sea level,Though not a municipality, it is recognized for the largest suburb of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.
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New York held public mass burnings of comic books where residents went house to house to collect and burn all comic books found.There were accusations that Batman and Robin promoted homosexuality, that children would get the wrong idea about the laws of physics since Superman could fly, and that any comic with the words, ‘crime,’ ‘horror,’ or ‘terror.
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The Berlin Wall was taken from the West side, The Wall was built to prevent East Germans from fleeing from Communism. It was an iconic symbol of the Cold War and its marked the end of the War.
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The McCarthy hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused chief committee counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide.
