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Unit 11: Cold War

Unit 11: Cold War

World War II: Pearl Harbor - Alan Taylor - In Focus On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States, bombing warships and military targets in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 350 Japanese aircraft attacked the naval base in two waves, strafing targets, dropping armor-piercing bombs, and launching torpedoes toward U.S. battleships and cruisers. The U.S. forces were unprepared, waking to the sounds of explosions and scrambling to defend themselves. The entire preemptive attack lasted only 90 minutes, and in that time, the Japanese sunk four battleships and two destroyers, pummeled 188 aircraft, and damaged even more buildings, ships and airplanes. (Two of the battleships were later raised and returned to service.) Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: The USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in this December 7, 1941 photo. The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, seen in September of 1941. The USS Shaw burns in Pearl Harbor.

World War II: The Holocaust - Alan Taylor - In Focus One of the most horrific terms in history was used by Nazi Germany to designate human beings whose lives were unimportant, or those who should be killed outright: Lebensunwertes Leben, or "life unworthy of life". The phrase was applied to the mentally impaired and later to the "racially inferior," or "sexually deviant," as well as to "enemies of the state" both internal and external. From very early in the war, part of Nazi policy was to murder civilians en masse, especially targeting Jews. Warning: All images in this entry are shown in full, not screened out for graphic content. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: An emaciated 18-year-old Russian girl looks into the camera lens during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in 1945. This photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting a Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, sometime between 1941 and 1943. German soldiers question Jews after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

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