<span>Clara Lemlich Shavelson (March 28, 1886 – July 12, 1982) was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909. Later blacklisted from the industry for her labor union work, she became a member of the Communist Party USA and a consumer activist.</span>
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harborcaused about 2400 dead, almst 200 planes destroyed and 8 battleships destroyed or damaged. The long-term effect of Pearl Harbor was that it brought in the US to the war. It pushed Americans into the war that they were avoiding for so long.
Joseph Stalin was so paranoid that he ordered somewhere between 600,000 and 1.2 million people just for thinking that they are against the regime. The great purge was an extreme evidence of the paranoia.
