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The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and by the World War II collaborators with the Nazis. -
Franklin D Roosevelt
only us president to be elected 4 times. -
First 100 Days
The President greets enthusiastic supporters in Warm Springs, Ga., on Dec. 1, 1933. March 4, 1933, was perhaps the Great Depression's darkest hour. The stock market had plunged 85% from its high in 1929, and nearly one-fourth of the workforce was unemployed. -
Aldof Hittler
Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated fascist policies that led to World War II and the deaths of at least 11 million people, including the mass murder of an estimated 6 million Jews. -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. -
War in Europe
The European Theatre of World War II, also known as the Second European War, was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe, from Germany's and the Soviet Union's joint invasion of Poland in September 1939 until the end of the war with the Soviet Union conquering much of Europe along with the German unconditional ... -
J Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) was the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He became involved in law enforcement as a special assistant to the attorney general, overseeing the roundups and deportations of suspected communists during the post-World War I Red Scare. -
The Manhattan Project
the first atomic bomb, a weapon that atomic scientists had nicknamed "Gadget." The nuclear age began on July 16, 1945, when it was detonated in the New Mexico desert.Einstein penned a letter to President Roosevelt urging the development of an atomic research program later that year. Roosevelt saw neither the necessity nor the utility for such a project, but agreed to proceed slowly. In late 1941, the American effort to design and build an ATOMIC BOMB received its code name the MANHATTAN PROJECT.
