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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Jim Crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court laid out its "separate but equal" legal doctrine concerning facilities for African Americans. Moreover, public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War in 1861–65.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civil rights movement.
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The NAACP is the oldest civil rights organization, as it began in August of 1908 and is still active today. The NAACP works for the elimination of racial discrimination, fair housing and employment through political lobbying, social change, legal action and education to improve the quality of life for African Americans.
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On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, France. -
In 1922 Mussolini took power by having a large group of men, "Black Shirts," march on Rome and threaten the King. The King gave in and Mussolini became Prime minister. He was the the dictator of Italy by the end of 1927 with the King and some high ranking men being the only ones who could challenge his power
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In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover in one of the largest landslide victories in US history. He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms.
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He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. -
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The millions of children in England who were evacuated from cities and towns during World War II, in what was dubbed “Operation Pied Piper.” -
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Night after night, from September 1940 until May 1941, German bombers attacked British cities, ports and industrial areas. London was bombed ever day and night, bar one, for 11 weeks. One third of London was destroyed. The German air force changed its strategy of bombing the British air force (Battle of Britain) and began to concentrate on bombing London. Nearly 2,000 people were killed or wounded in London's first night of the Blitz.
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The Siege of Leningrad lasted for 900 days in the city of Leningrad, Russia. Many hundreds of thousands of people died during this time(600,000-800,000) because there wasn't enough food or heating to go around, but the people who lived in Leningrad still refused to surrender to the Germans. (18th of September 1941 - 27th of January 1944) -
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Started in 1942
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Numerous small “computers”—from hand-held calculating tables made out of cardboard, to mechanical trajectory calculators, to some of the earliest electronic digital computers, could be found in everything from soldiers’ pockets to large command and control centers. The V-1 or “buzz bomb” was an automatic aircraft (today known as a “cruise missile”)
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Three of the flag raisers were later killed as the fighting raged on. By March 16, when Iwo Jima was declared secured, 6,821 Americans and 21,000 Japanese (the entire force) had died. The flag raising photo and subsequent statue came to symbolize being a Marine. -
Henry Truman becomes president of the USA after Roosevelt's death
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On May 8th, 1945 – known as Victory in Europe Day or V-E Day – celebrations erupted around the world to mark the end of a nearly six year war that had cost the lives of millions; destroyed homes, families, and cities; and brought huge suffering to the populations of entire countries.
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The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
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Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) would officially be celebrated in the United States on the day formal surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay: September 2, 1945
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Anne didn’t just keep a diary. She also wrote tales and planned to publish a book about her time in the Secret Annex. After the war, Otto Frank fulfilled her wish. Since then, Anne Frank's diary has been translated into more than 70 languages. -
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