Popular Memorial Pages by Clio

• The Cherokee Trail of Tears

  The forced relocation of American Indians began with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1838 the Cherokee Indians became the fifth major tribe to…

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  Updated 27 Nov 2011 - 2,858 views this week (97,913 total)

  Contributions 10 images, 7 comments, 2 stories

• The Prohibition Era, 1919-1933

  Prohibition began with temperance movements throughout the United States before the Civil War. Alcohol consumption had become closely related with poverty…

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  Updated 07 Jan 2012 - 1,412 views this week (48,495 total)

  Contributions 28 images, 1 comment, 2 stories

• Brown vs. Board of Education

  After the Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the doctrine of “separate but equal” applied to all segregated facilities throughout…

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  Updated 09 Dec 2008 - 765 views this week (49,592 total)

  Contributions 14 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Laura Ingalls Wilder was raised on the American frontier. Her father Charles acquired a homestead in the American back-country that later inspired Laura…

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  Updated 29 Jan 2012 - 662 views this week (37,272 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 1 comment

• Kristallnacht—The Night of Broken Glass

  On the night of November 9, 1938, Nazi Storm Troopers and German citizens launched a massive, government-coordinated attack on Jews throughout Germany.…

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  Updated 03 May 2011 - 525 views this week (29,969 total)

  Contributions 90 images, 1 story

• The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

  When faced with a full-scale invasion of Japan or the dropping of atomic bombs, newly-appointed President Harry S Truman immediately realized the full…

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  Updated 07 May 2011 - 517 views this week (40,762 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Bonnie & Clyde

  Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met in 1930 and formed one of the greatest crime duos in American history. Their crime spree lasted for two years, and by…

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  Updated 06 Feb 2012 - 483 views this week (38,182 total)

  Contributions 19 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

  Bergen-Belsen began as a prison camp for captured prisoners of war. It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But…

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  Updated 09 Feb 2010 - 473 views this week (21,275 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 2 stories

• Auschwitz Concentration Camp

  No other Nazi concentration camp is as well known for the atrocities committed within than the Auschwitz-Bikenau camp. Auschwitz and its two other main…

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  Updated 18 Jan 2011 - 453 views this week (22,916 total)

  Contributions 16 images, 1 comment, 3 stories

• Anne Frank

  Anne Frank is probably the best-known victim of the Holocaust. As a young child, her family fled Germany for the Netherlands to escape the escalating…

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  Updated 01 Apr 2011 - 450 views this week (12,837 total)

  Contributions 7 images, 2 comments

• The Battle of Iwo Jima

  The Battle of Iwo Jima was supposed to take only five days according to U.S. military analysis. This invasion quickly became a killing field. Facing…

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  Updated 11 Jan 2011 - 407 views this week (16,192 total)

  Contributions 21 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• Battle of Gettysburg

  Union and Confederate soldiers fought for three days on the bloody fields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. While the Union could call this battle a victory,…

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  Updated 14 Oct 2011 - 380 views this week (51,504 total)

  Contributions 50 images, 3 comments, 4 stories

• Japan in World War II

  During the 1930s and through World War II, the Japanese military controlled the government of Japan. Unlike Germany and Italy, Japan did not have a…

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  Updated 25 Feb 2009 - 360 views this week (19,844 total)

  Contributions 55 images, 1 story

• Oskar Schindler

  Oskar Schindler was not a perfect man, but he will be remembered for his selfless service to the Jews he saved during the Nazi Holocaust. Before the war,…

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  Created 31 Aug 2009 - 343 views this week (15,608 total)

  Contributions 5 images, 1 story

• U.S. President John F. Kennedy Assassinated

  Ask any American who was alive on November 22, 1963, what they remember of the day President Kennedy was shot and they’ll have a story to tell. It was…

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  Updated 09 Dec 2008 - 332 views this week (37,722 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Thomas Paine

  Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England, to a father who worked as a corset maker. From his beginnings, it seems unlikely that this boy would one day…

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  Updated 01 Nov 2011 - 329 views this week (24,737 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• Buchenwald Concentration Camp

  The Buchenwald concentration camp was one of the largest camp systems in Germany. Until the end of 1943, only men were imprisoned in the camp complex.…

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  Updated 29 Dec 2009 - 325 views this week (15,722 total)

  Contributions 11 images, 1 story

• Abraham Lincoln

  Abraham Lincoln became the president of the United States during the most divisive period of U.S. history. He gained national attention during the Senate…

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  Updated 10 Aug 2011 - 315 views this week (33,789 total)

  Contributions 166 images, 5 comments, 3 stories

• D-day Normandy Invasion

  The invasion of Normandy came as the long-awaited Second-Front, anticipated by Russia and feared by Hitler. “Operation Overlord” commenced on June 6,…

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  Updated 06 Jun 2011 - 305 views this week (26,884 total)

  Contributions 63 images, 2 comments, 3 stories

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

  The attack that took place on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, became the most shocking military defeat in U.S. history…

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  Updated 08 Dec 2010 - 295 views this week (27,910 total)

  Contributions 31 images, 2 comments, 3 stories