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Franz Ferdinand was assassinated for political causes. Being the heir to the Austrian throne, Serbians did not like him and the goal of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces.
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World War 1
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Following the 1917 Revolution, four socialist republics were established on the territory of the former empire: the Russian and Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republics and the Ukrainian and Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republics. On December 30, 1922, these constituent republics established the U.S.S.R.
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression between 1929 and 1939 that began after a major fall in stock prices in the United States.
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The German dictator Adolf Hitler led the extreme nationalist Arguably one of the most effective and powerful leaders of the twentieth century, his leadership led to the deaths of nearly six million Jews.
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World War II began on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland. and On September 2, 1945, formal surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri, designating the day as the official Victory over Japan
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the first atomic bomb called little boy was dropped on Hiroshima
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the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki this time named fat man
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With the Cold War worsening, the Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear bomb and quickly exerts its influence over Eastern Europe. It attempts to do the same in Western Europe, which is still recovering from the massive destruction of World War II. To respond to the Soviet threat, U.S. and Western European allies form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Fundamentally, NATO simply states that an attack on any NATO member would be considered an attack on all NATO members.
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was a war between the Republic of Korea (supported primarily by the United States of America, with contributions from allied nations under the aegis of the United Nations) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (supported by the People's Republic of China, with military and material aid from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
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This decolonization war ended in the independence of Algeria from France. It was violent and long, and led to the collapse of the French Fourth Republic.
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The Vietnam War stretched from November 1st, 1955-April 30th, 1975. As seen by the dates this was part of the Cold War era. The fight was basically between North Vietnam who was supported by the Vietnamese government and the South Vietnam who was supported by the United States. It was overall an anti-communist vs. communist battle.
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On July 20, 1969, two American astronauts landed on the moon and became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface.
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armed conflict between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran, lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the longest conventional war of the 20th century. The war began when Iraq invaded Iran, launching a simultaneous invasion by air and land into Iranian territory on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes.
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The collapse of the USSR was significant in that a large superpower, generally known as bad, was done. It was seen “as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.” It was the end of the Cold War.
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The September 11 attacks were a series of suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001. 19 terrorist from the al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally steered two planes in to the twin towers and one into the pentagon. There was also another plane headed towards the White House but I was wrecked into a field. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks.
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Nearly 600 feet below the France-Switzerland border at CERN's Large Hadron Collider Facility, an international team of scientists discovers a new particle widely believed to be the elusive Higgs boson, known as the "God Particle," which is thought to be a fundamental component of the universe. Higgs boson has been an important element of particle physics theory for decades, but until 2012 there had been no physical evidence to support its existence.
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Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases.