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The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Confederate States of America and the United States. It started as a result of differences between the free and slave states in America.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued this proclamation which declared that all persons held as slaves were freed in rebellion against the union. -
The Wright brothers inaugurated the aerial age with the world's first successful flights of a powered, heavier-than-air flying machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. The historic first flight of the Wright Flyer lasted 12 seconds, traveling 36 m (120 ft), with Orville piloting. -
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The Great Depression was a worldwide economic depression between 1929 and 1939 that began after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. It became known worldwide on Black Tuesday. The economic shock transmitted across the world, impacting countries to varying degrees, with most countries experiencing this. The Great Depression was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century and is regularly used as an example of an intense global economic depression.
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World War 2 was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945.
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During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
On September 2, 1945, representatives from the Japanese government and Allied forces assembled aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to sign the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, which effectively ended World War II. The document was prepared by the U.S. War Department and approved by President Harry S. Truman. -
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A tense, forty-year standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The United states is believed to have won this conflict. Very little violence was applied.
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Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was a chimpanzee and the first great ape launched into space. On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury. -
Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969, carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin into an initial Earth-orbit of 114 by 116 miles. An estimated 650 million people watched Armstrong's televised image and heard his voice describe the event as he took "...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" on July 20, 1969. They became the first humans on the moon and walked around for three hours.