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In the fall of 1940, German authorities forced the Jews of Warsaw to move into a ghetto. A few months later, in January 1941, German authorities began deporting Jews from German-occupied areas of Poland to the Warsaw ghetto. 2. In July 1942, German authorities began deporting Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center to be ...
The influenza pandemic of 1918–19, also called the Spanish flu, lasted between one and two years. The pandemic occurred in three waves, though not simultaneously around the globe. In the Northern Hemisphere, the first wave originated in the spring of 1918, during World War I.
The largest ghetto was in Warsaw, the Polish capital, where almost half a million Jews were confined. Many ghettos were set up in cities and towns where Jews were already concentrated. Jews as well as some Roma (Gypsies) were also brought to ghettos from surrounding regions and from western Europe. Between October and December 1941, thousands ...
The first Japanese dive-bomber appeared over Pearl Harbor at 7:55 AM (local time) on December 7, 1941. Over the next half hour, Pearl Harbor’s airfields and docked ships were subjected to a merciless assault with bombs, guns, and torpedoes. A second wave struck at 8:50 AM, and the Japanese withdrew shortly after 9:00 AM. In just over an hour ...
On June 19, 1865 — Juneteenth — U.S. Army general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced General Order No. 3, proclaiming freedom for slaves in Texas, [28] which was the last state of the Confederacy with slavery. Juneteenth has been celebrated annually on June 19 ever since in various parts of the United States.
Opinion. The ghettoization of black Americans hasn’t been reversed. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson testifies on Capitol Hill in March 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Fifty ...
Ghettos: The Ghettoization of European Jews. On September 1, 1939 , Hitler's troops invaded Poland. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany — World War II has begun. But, within three weeks, Poland has completely succumbed to Hitler's Blitzkrieg.
