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This was the first time a powered aircraft was successfully flown. This happened in 1903. -
The War started after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip on the 28th of June, 1014. The War ended after the Germans signed an armistice agreement with the Allies on November 11, 1918.
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The 18th Amendment created many riots, since it contained statements that you couldn't sell or manufacture alcohol. Then later the 21st amendment overruled that to make it so people could buy and sell, as well as manufacture alcohol.
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The Great Depression started after the stock market crash of October 1929. Mobilizing the economy for world war made the economy go up once again and it made The Great Depression come to an end.
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The dust bowl started when crops began to fail with the onset of drought in 1931, exposing the bare, over-plowed farmland. The dust bowl ended when rain finally returned in significant amounts to many areas of the Great Plains.
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The first session of George Norris' unicameral was held in 1937. The Unicameral was more efficient since it was only one house. -
Mildred Brown and her husband opened the Omaha star in 1938. The Omaha star is a African-American newspaper. -
World War II (the Holocaust) began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Truman announced Japan's surrender and the end of World War II on September 2, 1945.
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SAC moved to Offutt the year 1946. SAC was sent to protect them and the Allies from Communism and the Communists. -
The Cold War raised tensions with the USA and russia. This played a major role in the Space Race.
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A white man got shot by a police-man. After, a news channel blamed an African-American man for doing it, starting riots. -
Students all across responded in protests to the United States expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. The protests started out of their classrooms to protest this.