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Executive Order 9066
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Japanese American internment: dispossession Japanese American internment: removal Dorothea Lange: photograph of a store owner's response to anti-Japanese sentiment Japanese American internment: children concentration camp Entrance to the Manzanar War Relocation Center Japanese American internment camps Manzanar War Relocation Center near Lone Pine, Calif.; photograph by Ansel Adams, 1943.
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High school recess period, Manzanar Relocation Center (internment camp, Japanese-Americans), near Lone Pine, California. Photograph by Ansel Adams, 1943.
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In 1942 the West Coast was swept by a wave of what approached hysteria over the presence of large numbers of Japanese-American. Sign on Japanese-American store in Oakland, Calif., 1942. Photograph by Dorothea Lange
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Adolf Hitler (Nazi, nazism, German leader).
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Photo shows captured German soldiers, their uniforms tattered from the battle, making their way in the bitter cold through the ruins of Stalingrad, January 1943. World War II Battle of Stalingrad Russia
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Union Jack flag of Great Britain, united kingdom
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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
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Two puppies and a kitten, puppy playfully biting kitten's head
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Ethel Rosenberg arrested in August 1950. Photograph dated Aug. 8, 1950. American civilians executed for espionage. Spies, communists, Julius Rosenberg
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Japanese American internment: dispossession
Japanese American internment: removal
Dorothea Lange: photograph of a store owner's response to anti-Japanese sentiment
Japanese American internment: children
concentration camp
Entrance to the Manzanar War Relocation Center
Japanese American internment camps
Manzanar War Relocation Center near Lone Pine, Calif.; photograph by Ansel Adams, 1943.
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