Operation Plunder

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After WWII, the fast pace in which the Soviet’s achieved nuclear capabilities led to the discovery that design documents had been leaked. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were ultimately implicated as soviet spies and sentenced to death.

After English-speaking Native American, Squanto, helped the Pilgrims survive in a new land, Governor William Bradford called for the first Thanksgiving feast, which lasted for three days.

German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann’s telegram to Mexico in 1917 was intercepted and deciphered, prompting the U.S. to rescind isolationism and declare war on Germany, officially entering WWI.

The battle of Iwo Jima was an allied invasion of the island a mere 750 miles from mainland Japan, but secret fortifications left American troops overwhelmed by Japanese defenses. Despite heavy casualties, Americans finally captured both airfields and would hoist the American flag at the summit, captured in the iconic photograph.

The Siege of Vicksburg was a 40-day holdout between Confederate troops led by General Pemberton and the Union Army led by Maj General Grant.

The Paleolithic Period in human prehistory saw the slow adoption of stone tools, increasing survival and productivity rates of hominins starting 3.3 million years ago to the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, approximately 11,650 years ago.

The Great Chicago Fire broke out on October 8th, 1871, leaving some 100,000 Chicagoans homeless after the destruction of more than 17,000 structures.