Operation Plunder

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The Legend of a Santa Claus has Greek, British, and Dutch origins. The modern day image of Santa’s rotund and jolly self is from a cartoonist, Thomas Nast.

From ancient Egyptian palm fronds, to early humans honoring the solstice with evergreen boughs, these origins of the Christmas tree led to its modern day popularity.

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.