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The USS West Virginia was one of seven ships that made up Battleship Row during the Battle of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Here it can be seen ablaze after being hit by seven torpedoes and two bombs. It sank, and was later returned to service...

Franklin the printer, photograph of a painting by artist Charles E. Mills, c. 1914. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Japanese troops enter French Indochina and head towards Lang Son in what is northern Vietnam today. During 1940, Japan began to encroach on French Indochina so that they could cut off the supplies that were routed through the area and into...

The Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter planes saw extensive service over the Second World War (1939-45). With a life-time production of over 10,000 aircraft, the "Zero" is touted as one of the most capable all-round fighter planes of the...

Oil seeping to the surface from the wreck of the USS Arizona is appropriately named the "tears of the Arizona", which still weeps to this day in remembrance of those who lost their lives during the Battle of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

A photograph showing Japanese troops at the Mukden Little West Gate during the invasion of Chinese Manchuria (Manchukuo) in September 1931. The invasion caused a crisis with the League of Nations.

A photograph of the fascist leader of Italy, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), inspecting troops during the invasion of Abyssinia (1935-6).

A 1923 photograph of the Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Bache, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, a partisan newspaper supporting the Democratic-Republican Party. Bache was arrested under the Alien and Sedition Acts and died...

Copy of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), provided by the US Federal Government.