Old News - a year in review

2022 history: Russia - Ukraine, Nord Stream pipeline explosion, Dobbs v. Jackson / Roe v. Wade, Steel Dossier, Inflation, Jerome Powell - 7 federal interest rate increases, Sam Bankman-Fried FTX, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, Mahsa Amini, Iran protests, Nancy Pelosi - Taiwan, Paul Pelosi, Monkeypox, Elon Musk's Twitter, ChatGPT, Qatar World Cup, Top Gun: Maverick

1937 history: Spanish Civil War, George Orwell, Fake News, Guernica, Puerto Rico - Ponce Massacre, Nanjing Massacre, Rape of Nanking, Toyota Motor Corporation, Hindenburg, Amelia Earhart, Golden Gate Bridge, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1938 History: Appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany, Anschluss annexation of Austria, Sudetenland, Munich Agreement, Neville Chamberlain, Romb-Berlin Axis, Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass, Jewish refugee crisis, Henry Ford - The Intrnational Jew, Grand Cross of the German Eagle, Sino-Japnese War, Roosevelt Recession, Fair Labor Standards Act, Howard Hughes, nuclear fission, Joe Louis, Seabiscuit, Orson Welles - War of the Worlds, Bugs Bunny

1939 History: Arab Revolt, White Paper of 1939, MS St. Louis Jewish Refugees, Hitler Mussolini Pact of Steel, German Soviet Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Gleiwitz incident, Polish invasions, WWII, SS killing unit Einsatzgruppen, Phoney War, Naval blockade, Radar, Fourth Neutrality Act, New York World's Fair, Superman

1940 History: Norwegian campaign, Neville Chamberlain - Lord Halifax - Winston Churchill, German Blitzkrieg, Operation Dynamo, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe, RAF, Operation Bernhardt, Peaky Blinders, 2nd Sino Japanese War, Tripartite Pact, Leon Trotsky assassination, Destroyers for Bases Agreement, America First Committee, Selective Training and Service Act, VP swaps, Charlie Chaplin, Billboard Music Chart

1941 History: Lend Lease Act, PT Boat, Operation Barbarossa, Nazi, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Block 11, Zyklon B, Gas Chambers, Concentration Camp, Holocaust, Atlantic Charter, Roosevelt, FDR, Churchill, George Orwell, Ministry of Truth, Thought Police, Thought Crime, wire tapping, Smith Act, Alien Registration Act, Plutonium, Bebop, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Pearl Harbor

1942 history: WWII, Allied Grand Strategy, Operation Torch, Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS), Concentration Camps, Operation Reinhard, Holocaust, Fall of Bataan, Bataan Death March, Doolittle Raid, Battle of Midway, Stalingrad, Duke of Kent, Executive Order 9066, Japanese American internment camps, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the Lost Battalion, Rosie the Riveter, Operation Pastorius, Sabotage, John Edgar Hoover, military tribunal, Habeas Corpus, Ex parte Quirin, Duck Tape, Duct Tape, SPAM, Comic books, liquid stockings

1943 History: WWII Italy Surender, Battle of Kursk, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Norden Bombsight, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Zoot Suit Riots in LA, Tehran Conference, Jefferson Memorial, Nylon, Vitamin K, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

1944 history: Operation Overlord / D-Day, Normandy, Hitler's Atlantic Wall, Operation Bagration, Navajo Code Talkers, General Douglas MacArthur, Japanese Kamakaze, Bretton Woods Conference, World Bank, Battle of the Bulge, G.I. Gill, 22nd Amendment, Radar, Penicilin, Electrophoresis, Seventeen magazine

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