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U.S. History - 1934-1945

Within History

Man stands with hands clasped and lips parted mid-speech. Backdrop displays photo collage of Chinese people. Caption. For the Chinese American community.

Cropped black and white photo. Midsection of figure wearing leather jacket and knee-high boots while holding on to an airplane propeller.

Woman opens mouth in mid-speech. Painting with mounds of pottery and a figure holding up their fist as backdrop. Caption. It would be against the European mother country of all Hispanics.

Red and white stripes of U, S flag with overlay of the U, S Constitution. Text overlay reads, The Constitution in a Changing World.

Black and white photo of Japanese-Americans walking along a train platform. Above this, a bridge crowded with people. Caption. To make us as comfortable as we could be.

Black and white image of people walking in a procession with some carrying flags. Caption. African Americans are about to change everything.

Men in green military fatigues and helmets run towards camera with rifles in hands and waves crashing behind them. Caption. The men are left with virtually no cover on the beach.

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Still image from: Civics Fundamentals With Judge Douglas Ginsburg: Name One War Fought By the United States in the 1900s.

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Digital map titled "Battle of Britain." Germany and its occupied countries and territories are shaded red with a Nazi flag and text that reads, "Germany." The United Kingdom is shaded beige with a U, K flag below text that reads, "Britain."

Digital map titled "Battle of Iwo Jima" with 3 red arrows pointing from the Pacific Northwest towards Japan and its occupied territories.

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Black and white photo of military soldiers walking up a hill, tanks and trucks in the distance. Caption. Are ashore all along the coast of Normandy.

Digital illustration shows a determined Army medic carrying a wounded soldier over his shoulders. Text reads, “Desmond Doss. The Medic Who Fought a War Without a Weapon.”

Girl seated next to a small window and talking to a teenage boy. Caption. How long have you been keeping a diary?

Black and white photo of Franklin D. Roosevelt in a black fedora sitting in front of his wife Eleanor, who rests her chin on her right hand. They look at something in the distance. Caption. An invaluable asset to her husband's Presidency.

Black and white image of Douglas MacArthur speaking into microphones at a press briefing. Caption. As we hurled back the invader and decimated his forces.

Black and white image of Charles Coughlin who stands at a podium behind several microphones, raising one hand up in the air. Caption. Their rhetoric grew more strident and rabid.

Rustic wooden house next to a haystack. Caption. Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928.

Black and white frame of a man with outstretched arms between teenage boy and young boy in a field of sparse corn. Caption. Next year the crop will yield more.

Middle-aged Japanese woman sits across camera, hands folded and resting on the table in front of her. Caption. So they very quickly shrouded the whole incarceration.

Black and white photo of men wearing dress military clothing with plumed hats riding horses. Caption. Militarism, wars of conquest.

Senior man with white hair and glasses crosses arms and parts lips in mid-speech. Caption. That people have of the place.

Large gray World War 2 aircraft carrier sits at dock on a sunny day with calm waters. Multiple airplanes are visible on its deck.

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A person opens the door of a 2-story building with white metal siding and green beams and roof. A sign at the top reads, "The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History." There's a tower with a large model of an atom to one side.

Small silver plane with a front propeller and a sealed cockpit sits outside a large warehouse. Text on the plane reads, "Toulouse Nuts."

Black and white photo of 4 military soldiers walking through rocky terrain. Caption. And then three other code talkers were wounded.

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Black and white closeup of Sam Tucker, civil rights activist. Caption. To end legalized racism in the United States.

Title slide with handwriting-style text against a blurred background with shades of brown, green, and white. Text reads, "Past Present. Finding Langston."

Black and white photo of a sinking battleship. Caption. Eighteen other ships are sunk.

Black and white closeup of an astronaut in a space suit hovering above cratered terrain. Spanish caption. La carrera espacial llevó a los Estados Unidos.

Title card on blue background reads, "The Great Depression was a time period during the 1930's when there was a worldwide economic crisis and mass unemployment."

Black and white image of an old bank building on a busy city street crowded with people and cars. Spanish caption. Los bancos cerraron causando pánico en todo el país.

Title card on rusty light brown background reads, "World War 2 was a military conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 and involved 2 alliances that opposed each other."

Black and white photo of a large war ship labeled, "U, S 282." Spanish caption. Con la participación de los Estados Unidos en la guerra.

World War 2 map of the Philippines showing the islands of Corregidor, Luzon, Mindoro and Leyte. A red dot for the capital, Manilla, appears on Luzon. A U, S, flag image appears over southern islands. Text on screen reads, "Philippines."

Closeup of a person's hands touching a handmade crocheted blanket in variegated colors of white, pink, and taupe laying on a table in front of them.

Color illustration. Young girl seated in a chair with knees pulled in, looking down at an open book in front of her. Caption. Daybreak to dusky dark if Mama would allow.

Black and white image with bird's eye view of figures in white milling about a field. Caption. In India, the Crown could not maintain its respect.

Colorized image of men in army green fatigues and helmets milling about on the beach. Equipment and supply bags are piled around and jeeps in background. Caption. D-day, the beginning of the end.

Title card over black and white photo. Text reads, "'There's no way we sold our tires, because we didn't have any to sell. The only ones we had were on the Hudson and we drove off in them. I don't believe Lange was lying, I just think she had one story mixed up with another.' Troy Owens."

Black and white frame of senior woman looking down and working with her hands, surrounded by others. Caption. As Steinbeck was writing it, people were living it.

Black and white frame shows men wearing long coats and hats waiting in a line outside a building beneath a sign that says, "Coffee and Doughnuts for the Unemployed." Text reads, "The Great Depression."

Black and white photo of people planting in a park. Caption. He wanted to provide those who could work.

Black and white photo of a factory worker standing next to a classic car. Caption. The Model A was the first car built at the Rouge.

Black and white photo of a crowd of people carrying luggage from a ship in the background. Caption. 25 million people will touch our shores.

Soldier wears a helmet and holds a weapon in front of a wall lined with military uniforms. Text reads, "Uniform of the American G.I. on D-Day."

Men in military uniform sit amongst civilians in a crowd of people. Caption. Man 2 as narrator. That at Iwo Jima, all those who fought.

Slide shows a brown circle with a detailed drawing in the background of blue highlighted text that reads, "What was The Thing? The Cold War."

Soldier stands in the background of text that reads, "What Was the Most Decorated U.S. Combat Unit in World War Two?"

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Angled side view of a man with gray hair looking at a glowing computer screen. Caption. He's searching for the remains of the legendary P, T 109.

The Hindenburg zeppelin airship crashed on the ground, engulfed in flames. Caption. It's bursting into flames and falling on the mooring pad!

Side view of rows of British and American soldiers in uniform smiling for a photo while holding up an American flag, a British flag, and a solid red flag. Huge crowds are visible in the distance behind them.

Historical wartime photo of a palm tree lined beach. Several soldiers are dead at the water's edge, others are seated or walking along the beach.

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