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30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car.
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A region where warfar is taking place.
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The bolsheviks siezed power in october 1917 during the russin revolution and founded the soviet union.
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Signed the treaty of Brest-litovsk
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Vladimir Lenin sgined the treaty of Brest-litovsk
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Navy destroyers escorted grops of mercant ships.
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Franz Ferdinand was the arch duke of Austria Hungry whose death sparked the world.
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Gavrilo princip assassinated the arch duke of Austria Hungry (Franz Ferdinand).
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Led the American Expedition Force. The troops in Eroupe.
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Was led by Joh J. Pershing, The American troops in Eourpe.
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An armistice is an agrement to end fighting.
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Dough Boys was the nickname that the american soldiers were given during ww1
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two thirds of the jews were killed during the holocaust
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the polish army was defeted within weeks of the invasion
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The battle of the bulge was the largest battle of WWII. It happened when Hitler attacked and the Allies nearly lost; the Allied troops had thought that Germans were close to surrender which was not the case. In the battle, Britain closed in on Germany from the west while the Soviet Union attacked from the east
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African Americans were often treated differently than whites in many parts of the country, especially in the South. In fact, many state legislatures enacted laws that led to the legally mandated segregation of the races. In other words, the laws of many states decreed that blacks and whites could not use the same public facilities, ride the same buses, attend the same schools
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Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. The leaders of the local black community organized a bus boycott that began the day Parks was convicted of violating the segregation laws. Led by a young Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the boycott lasted more than a year—during which Parks not coincidentally lost her job—and ended only when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional.
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The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks’ court hearing and lasted 381 days.
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African American who was attempting to register at the all-white University of Mississippi, known as "Ole Miss."
