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Why on earth did Japan attack the US Navy Base at Pearl Harbor?

The Watts Riot of 1965 and the riots of 1967 destroyed the notion that the United States had fully solved its civil rights and race issues.

When World War II erupted, what actions did the United States take in the late 1930s and early 1940s?

The 1950s is famous for conformity.  Why?

While the 1970s certainly advanced civil rights causes in the United States, environmentally it was a disaster, as incidents like the Love Canal Catastrophe illustrate.  

A Memo from the US Bureau of Census announced that the American frontier no longer existed as of 1890.

Lectures noted that after World War II, racial segregation only existed in the south, not in the north. 

The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was in charge of controlling the price of gasoline in the 1980s.

Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec.  These are the names of Nazi killing centers – not concentration camps – in the Holocaust.

What was going on in the world when the United States put its neutrality acts into law?