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  • Collection: United States History, 1914-1945

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

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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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One of a number of posters created by the Economic Cooperation Administration, an agency of the U.S. government, to sell the Marshall Plan in Europe. Includes versions of the flags of those Western European countries that received aid under the…

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

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Woman points to anti-Japanese rhetoric sign outside of her California home in the 1920s.

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Mexican immigrants being inspected for lice.

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Mexican migrant sugar beet workers, living in a one room house in the 1920s.

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Preliminary health screening at Ellis Island, 1920s.

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In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Immigrants flocked to the US from all over the world in this time period. Millions of Europeans moved to the US where they…

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Race 2012: A Conversation About Race and Politics in America, a PBS election special. Check local listings.

Claire Jean Kim, Assoc. Prof., Political Science, University of California, Irvine, explains that this act instituted the national origins…

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Universal Newsreel clip of his sixth Fireside Chat (September 30th, 1934).

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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.

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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.

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A pamphlet questioning the democratic legitimacy of legislation modeled after that which created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), c. 1950.

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Regarding Al Capone's incarceration, he was needed for classification among his peers in order to clarify the "star ranking" of the inmate.
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