Battle of Flanders

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Proving to be a calculated bluff to end World War Two, the Potsdam Declaration gave Japan an ultimatum for unconditional surrender or nuclear war.

Four black students refused to vacate a white’s only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, setting off a civil rights movement of peaceful protests and sit ins.

In 1942, 50,000 Allied prisoners of war were forced to march in high heat without water for 100 miles to prison camps, known as the Bataan Death March.

Fiery senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin who fueled the anti-communist Red Scare movement in the United States known as McCarthyism.

America’s first astronauts sprung from Russia’s successful satellite launch, Sputnik. NASA went on to promote the likes of Deke Slayton, Gus Grissom, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and More.

President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference had a mental breakdown most likely caused by a high fever associated with the Spanish Flu of 1918.

In 1962, a massive seam of underground coal caught fire turning Centralia, Pennsylvania into a burning ghost town. The government seized the land under imminent domain, forcing all but five residents from the town.