On August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. 
Hiroshima over the years.
Hiroshima today.
The Great Baltimore Fire raged in Baltimore, Maryland, United States on Sunday, February 7 and Monday, February 8, 1904. More than 1,500 buildings were completely leveled, and some 1,000 severely damaged, bringing property loss from the disaster to an estimated $100 million.
Baltimore, Maryland a few years later.
1940: 80.6% White, 19.3% Black
1940: 80.6% White, 19.3% Black
Baltimore, Maryland today.
2010: 29.6% White, 63.7% Black
2010: 29.6% White, 63.7% Black
The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden during WW II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 RAF & 527 USAAF heavy bombers dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.
Dresden, Germany today.
In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. Ford's manufacturing—and those of automotive pioneers William C. Durant, the Dodge Brothers, Packard, and Walter Chrysler—established Detroit's status in the early 20th century as the world's automotive capital.
Detroit, Michigan
1910: 98.7% White
1940: 90.7% White
"By the 1920s the city had become a stronghold of the KKK," whose members primarily opposed Jewish immigrants, but also practiced discrimination against black Americans."
1910: 98.7% White
1940: 90.7% White
"By the 1920s the city had become a stronghold of the KKK," whose members primarily opposed Jewish immigrants, but also practiced discrimination against black Americans."
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
Detroit
2010: 10.6% White, 82.7% Black
Detroit
2010: 10.6% White, 82.7% Black
Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits.
During World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary was a member of the Axis powers & relied on trade with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
During World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary was a member of the Axis powers & relied on trade with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
Budapest, Hungary today.
Rhodesia was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was the de facto successor state to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, which had been self-governing since achieving responsible government in 1923.
Rhodesia's largest cities were its capital, Salisbury, and Bulawayo. The white population, which grew to nearly 300,000, dominated the country's politics and economy.
The decolonisation of Africa in the early 1960s alarmed a significant proportion of Rhodesia's white population. In an effort to delay the transition to black majority rule, Rhodesia's predominantly white government issued its own Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965.
Rhodesia transitioned to a multiracial democracy in 1978. It finally achieved internationally recognised independence in April 1980 as the Republic of Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe today.
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