The Atomic Bomb

August 9, 1945
Because of a single bomb, over 150,000 people died at Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki
Hindenburg Burning 1937

Zeppelin LZ-129 Hindenburg, shortly after catching fire on May 6, 1937 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
The Great Depression

"Destitute pea pickers in California." Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California." - Library of Congress
Dead on the Field of Gettysburg

Incidents of the war. A harvest of death, Gettysburg, July, 1863
Fall of the Berlin Wall

Since its creation in 1961, the Berlin wall epitomised the "Iron Curtain" which separated East Europe from West Europe.
The Horrors of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Bombing of Guernica - 1937

Moon Landing 1969

20 July 1969 Buzz Aldrin. Photo by Neil Armstrong.
Gandhi on Salt March 1930

Gandhi at Dandi, South Gujarat, picking salt on the beach at the end of the Salt March, 5 April 1930.
source: biography online
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