The Long and Short-Term Causes of WW2

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Originating as the Celtic festival of Beltane, the History of May Day has become associated with workers’ rights and labor demonstrations. Although it’s celebrated by 66 nations, the United States is not one of them.

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As the gold rush brought a steady inflow of white settlers, the California Genocide was a period of racially driven arrest, enslavement, and murder of thousands of native Californians between 1846 and 1873.