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On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Wilbur flies a glider in earlier tests. Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. This is important because it was the first airplane flown.
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The theory of the permanent revolution now demands the greatest attention from every Marxist, for the course of the class and ideological struggle has fully and finally raised this question from the realm of reminiscences over old differences of opinion among Russian Marxists.
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It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting. This vehicle was produced on a mass scale that made it affordable.
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The RMS Titanic sane early on April 15th, 1912 in the North Atlantic. The sinking resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.
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The assembly line was able to mass produce items making them cheaper and abundant.
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The war ended with the surrender of Germany and forced reparations upon Germany. The Treaty of Versailles resulted in the end of the war to punish Germany.
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After the death of Lenin, Stalin was able to take control of the soviet union and take total control.
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Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly across the Atlantic alone. Starting from Rhode Island and landing in Paris.
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With an overproduction of food and no knowledge of credit. The stock Market crash tipped the economy over the edge creating less jobs and more debt.
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and
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Hitler is appointed chancellor and later uses that to gain control of Germany and create a single party state.
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Beginning of WWII the war began in Europe without the US. The start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland; Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937,or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931.
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The bombing of pear harbor brought the US to enter WWII. This proved to be a bad decision because the US troops were to strong and helped defeat the axis powers.
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The splitting of the atomic bomb proved to be devastating. The US used this to their advantage as they dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan and ended WWII.
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Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
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By using the practices of Gandhi, King b3lieved in non violence and proved to society that you can be heard.
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Mcdonalds is Great
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The first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.
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The soviet union built the Berlin Wall to divide east and west Berlin. This was to keep communism alive in Germany.
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He was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. This topped the Soviet Union in the space race.
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The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress, the Nixon administration's resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis.
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The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. During the Cold War, in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles, other countries developed nuclear weapons, though none engaged in warhead production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers.
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A global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other militants, at some point between August 1988 and late 1989, with origins traceable to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army[46] and an Islamist, extremist, wahhabi, jihadist group
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Devastating the US and killing thousands of citizens. This is the worst terrorist act on US soil to this day.
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