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

2012 History: Greece financial crisis, Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, Hurricane Sandy, Malala Yousafzai - Pakistan, Right to Education, Psy Gangnam Style, Twilight Saga, Facebook IPO

2008 History: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers financial crisis, TARP, Barack Obama, Auto-Tune, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar

2007 History: iPhone, Facebook > MySpace, Twitter, Window's Vista, Baghdad air strikes, Benazir Bhutto assassination, Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", Gordon Brown, Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, Nancy Pelosi, Salt Lake City mass shooting, Dixie Chicks, Britney Spears, Harry Potter’s Deathly Hallows, The Sopranos finale, Mad Cow Disease

2006 History: Sago Mine Disaster, May Day Marches Immigration Protests, Enron Trial, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killing, Saddam Hussein execution, WikiLeaks, Hamas, liquids in carry-on luggage, North Korean Nuclear test, Steve Irwin Crocodile Hunter

2003 History: Iraq invasion, weapons of mass destruction WMDs, "Mission Accomplished", Abu Ghraib, Israeli-Palestine conflict, Hamas, SARS epidemic, Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster, power blackout, Elizabeth Smart

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