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An Ohio liquor store runs a sale before going out of business the day before the prohibition took effect in the state.

In September 1945, many participants returned to the Trinity Test site for news crews. Here Oppenheimer and Groves examine the remains of one the bases of the steel test tower.

This is a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt from attorney General Biddle to plea with Franklin not to go through with the Executive Order.

Citrus workers at the Hewes ranch in Tustin in the 1920s. Click for larger version.

Portrait photograph of Major General Leslie Groves in full dress uniform after he was promoted to Major General in March of 1944.

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President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam (near Berlin). The meeting was originally called the "Berlin Conference," the name was later changed to the "Potsdam…

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President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam (near Berlin). The meeting was originally called the "Berlin Conference," the name was later changed to the "Potsdam…

Marshall Plan

President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress asking for $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. This speech became known as the "Truman Doctrine" speech.

Rockets similar to this R-7 rocket on display in Moscow were used to launch early Russian satellites into orbit, including Sputnik.

Photo of Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the executive order 9066

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The Seattle Times warns of shortages in this headlined article of May 10, 1934, shortly after the strike began

Section of the Seattle Daily Times, Do Women Work Only for Pin Money? March 13, 1932

Cartoon shows the world as a globe being squeezed in a vise made up of two bombs, one labeled "Russia's Bombs" and the other "U.S.' Bombs." Reflects the fear of a world-wide atomic war that developed after the revelation in September 1949 that the…

Stephanie St. Clair, mobster in Harlem

The Godfather

The Godfather movie poster

May 5, 1938, Pierce County officials signed a deed passing the title of Tacoma Field, 900 acres of land with buildings, to the War Department to be used as part of a giant airbase to defend the Pacific Northwest.

Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, December 1931 to January 1947, then chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

Japanese soldiers march down the streets of Shanghai, China after their Occupation victory and round up of 350 prisoners of war.

Political cartoon of a Chinese man seated outside Golden Gate of Liberty.

Political cartoon of a Chinese man seated outside Golden Gate of Liberty.

July 1945 - two month after the end of the war in Europe and the allied victory over the German Reich the three allied leaders have come to Germany to work out a piece treaty - these 16 days, where the fate of post-war Europe was decided, go down in…