Israeli TanksJune 1967: Israeli Centurion tank corps prepare for battle during the Six-Day War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Jews wearing Star of David badges, Lodz Ghetto, Poland, World War II, 1940-1944. The Nazis forced Jews into over-crowded ghettos from which thousands were deported to the death camps.

The battle between the Crusaders and Muslims at Ascalon, 1099, was considered the last action of the First Crusade.

Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat, US President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 1979. Camp David Accord, Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty

The Iranian students, who have occupied the U.S EmTEHRAN, IRAN - NOVEMBER 19: The Iranian students, who have occupied the U.S Embassy in Tehran, are singing during the second released group of U.S. Embassy staffers hold a press conference 19 November 1979, two days after Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of all women and black U.S. hostages. Fanatical followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the United States Embassy, 04 November 1979 in Tehran, occupied the building and took nearly 100 embassy staff and Marines hostages. (Photo credit should read H. KOTILAINEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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America’s Founding Fathers decided that one elected civilian—the U.S. president—would lead the executive branch of the federal government, a governmental structure that has remained in place for more than 200 years.

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The Holocaust, during which some 6 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other people were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany during World War II, was one of the most horrific war crimes ever committed.

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The Middle East is a large and diverse region composed of several countries and cultures in north Africa and western Asia. Its complex history includes the Persian Gulf War, the Iran Hostage Crisis, the Yom Kippur War, Zionism and more.

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The Middle East is a large region composed of several countries in north Africa and western Asia. Learn about the Persian Gulf War, the Iran Hostage Crisis, Israel, Syria, Palestine and more.

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Africa is a large and diverse continent that extends from South Africa northward to the Mediterranean Sea. The continent makes up one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth. Widely recognized as the birthplace of humankind, Africa saw the rise of great kingdoms, faced the trans-Atlantic slave trade, colonization and Apartheid.

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Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt

Military seizes power in Egypt

Palestine Liberation Organization is founded

U.S. bombs terrorist and military targets in Libya

Suicide bomber destroys U.S. embassy in Beirut

Suez Canal opens