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The Soviet Union's expansion in Eastern Europe and the Communist victory in China have impacted the U.S. by raising fear and paranoia about the spread of communism in the West. The first wave was sparked by the 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution (Under Russian Revolution), and the second wave was during the early Cold War, where McCarthyism became a period of intense anti-communist suspicion and political repression in the U.S. as a result of it.
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Japanese forces launched a surprise air raid on the U.S. naval base in Oahu, Hawaii. Leading the US's official entry into WWII. -
The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, which marked the end of WWII. An estimate of over 150k-246k civilians were killed. -
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North Vietnam (Supported by communist allies) and South Vietnam (Supported by anti-communist allies) went to war against each other. The U.S. intervened and prevented the communists from taking over, but left in 1973. This led to the Fall of Saigon, where North Vietnamese forces captured the capital of South Vietnam to finally unify Vietnam as a whole. This war also marked the first recorded footage of war broadcast on television, which led to the Hard Hat Riot against deployment. -
The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) was to achieve dominance in spaceflight and to reach the Moon.
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Five men planted listening devices on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to expose Nixon's organized, massive cover-up about the Watergate break-in and attempted to use the CIA to block FBI investigations. This reveals the discussion of illegal hush money and weaponizing the Vietnam War and national security to justify it. -
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Childish Gambino (ft. Donald Glover and Ludwig Göransson) released a music video about a surreal satirical critique of American gun violence, racism, and the entertainment industry's role in distracting from chaos. -
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Apple agrees to pay $95 million to settle a class-action privacy lawsuit regarding unintended Siri usage between 2014 to 2024.
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