When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, he paved the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans on the mainland and Hawaii
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the U.S. Congress on March 16, 2022.
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History brought Ukraine’s plight home to people around the world, and helped mobilize political and military support against the Russian invasion.
Dust storm on July 3, 1942, at the Manzanar War Relocation Authority Center in California.
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When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, he caved to war hysteria and paved the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans.
The USS Arizona sunk after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
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On the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it is worth remembering how it provided America with an unparalleled position of power following the second world war.
The fear and distress caused by a false missile alarm last week on Jan. 13 in Hawaii is part of the 125 year legacy of American occupation. Here, cars drive past a highway sign: “Missile alert in error. There is no threat” on the H-1 Freeway in Honolulu.
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The Japanese attack on a US naval base on Dec. 7, 1941 set in motion a series of events that transformed the United States into a global superpower. Will Donald Trump bring that era to an end?