The Progressive Era In Depth

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James Dean was a struggling actor in Hollywood working as a parking lot attendant before starring in three popular films released within a two-year period, leading to two posthumous Academy Award nominations.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags were both publicly criticized in the south for their part in the post Civil War reconstruction era. Carpetbaggers were northern opportunists looking to fill the slave labor gap and Scalawags were southern whites that supported civil rights.

The Brusilov Offensive was led by Russian General Aleksei Brusilov and was intended to divert Germany’s troops from Verdun. Beginning on June 4th, 1916, the summer offensive would cost nearly 2 million lives, one of the deadliest military events in history.

Ernest Hemingway was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author who served in both World Wars, lived a life of adventure, and ultimately committed suicide in 1961.

During the Vietnam War, The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a network of roads that ran from Communist North Vietnam to American-backed South Vietnam, transecting the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia in a sparsely populated mountainous region of dense tropical rainforests.

Yellow Journalism is the strategy deployed by tabloid news magazines and more, Intending to excite public opinion using scare headlines of minor news events, the reliance on pseudoscience data and testimonies from questionable sources.

Yom Kippur is the Jewish holiday culminating the Ten Days of Awe and celebrates atonement and repentance through prayer, fasting, and abstinence.