The Long and Short-Term Causes of WW2

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The Palmer Raids were a series of arrests, interrogations and deportations of suspected immigrant anarchists, socialists and communists radicalizing within the United States.

John Muir was a Scottish immigrant to America and a deeply religious man. After an early accident that nearly blinded him, Muir found his purpose in nature, becoming a well-regarded conservationist and author.

The Hindenburg Disaster occurred while attempting to moor over Lakehurst, New Jersey. After flying from Germany, the largest airship ever built burst into flames and crashed to the ground, killing or injuring many passengers and ground crew.

Sigmund Freud was a psychology researcher who has had the largest impact on the field from his theories of Id, ego, superego, and the Oedipus complex. Freud committed suicide in 1938.

Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level at more than 29 thousand feet tall. Split by the border of China and Nepal, nearly 7,000 summits have been recorded with more than 300 deaths.

Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 and repeatedly sold until housewife Sophia Auld taught him the alphabet which led to his learning to read and write. After escaping to freedom, Douglass was an activist for the abolitionist movement and more.

The Scopes Monkey Trial was a public case in Dayton, Tennessee, regarding the teaching of evolution in schools defying the Christian fundamentalist belief in creationism. While evolutionists lost the legal case, Christian fundamentalists lost in the court of public opinion.