WASPs of WW2: Women’s Airforce Service Pilots

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After gold attracted Euro-American miners to Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho lands, chief Red Cloud turned to guerrilla-style attacks in what would become Red Cloud’s War, which ended in the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868.

The USS Indianapolis successfully delivered the Uranium 235 needed in the atomic weapons used against Japan before Japanese submarines sank the vessel, ultimately leaving 317 of the nearly 1,200 men having survived 4-days of treachery at sea.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer who rose to popularity during the Roaring 20s. His marriage to Zelda Sayre would end because of his alcoholism and her schizophrenia before his early death at the age of 44.

The Weimar Republic was a post-WWI Germany that defaulted on its foreign debts, leading to hyperinflation and ultimately a rise in nationalism and Hitler’s ascension to power.

Bacon’s Rebellion was the result of rising tensions between the Virginia Governor and Nathaniel Bacon, the leader of a group of extremists who burned down the Jamestown colony.

William Randolph Hearst inherited the San Francisco Examiner newspaper from his father, ultimately growing his media empire to a national powerhouse through sensationalism and yellow journalism.

After losing Fort Detroit and the Great Lakes Region to an alliance of British forces and Native American tribes, future president William Henry Harrison led a ruthless offensive against half-starved soldiers and leading to the death of Tecumseh.