Jennifer's 20th Century History Blog June 2007 Archive

It is not only the highest place on Earth, it is also extremely cold and dangerous. Although many others have died trying, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the very ... Read More

Acting in response to Clint Eastwood's recent movie, Letters From Iwo Jima, the original inhabitants of Iwo Jima have successfully petitioned Japan to now use the pre-war name for the ... Read More

During the Vietnam War, some U.S. soldiers collected the skulls of Vietnamese as war trophies. They often painted them or found utilitarian uses for them, for instance as ashtrays. Six ... Read More

We have all grown up with the adorable characters of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and Eeyore. Some of us have seen the Disney movies while others might have read ... Read More

As part of the 70th anniversary of the Rape of Nanking, the leading party in Japan instigated a month-long study of the massacre. The group announced this week that they ... Read More

What does an old barrel of water have to do with the Nazi attempt to create a nuclear bomb? Quite a lot. The old barrel, which was salvaged from its ... Read More

Everyone knows that the Titanic sunk in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. However, new research has found that a flaw in the ship's construction could have caused it to sink ... Read More

For years, many have accused trade union organizer and ex-president of Poland, Lech Walesa, of having been a police informer to the secret police in the early 1980s. To counter ... Read More

Typhoid Mary had no idea that she was infected with the disease yet her work as a cook infected many. Find out all about Typhoid Mary and why authorities had ... Read More

Baron Manfred von Richthofen was an extremely successful fighter pilot during World War I. Credited with shooting down 80 enemy aircraft and preferring to fly a brightly painted red airplane, ... Read More

Before the Nazis decided to murder European Jewry in gas chambers, they considered the Madagascar Plan -- a plan to move four million Jews from Europe to the island of ... Read More

On the morning after the 1948 presidential election, the Chicago Daily Tribune's headline read "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." That's what the Republicans, the polls, the newspapers, the political writers, and even ... Read More