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The American Civil war started on April 12th 1861, which involved the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. The conflict mainly started due to the north and south sides of the US having different opinions on slavery. The north wanting to bring an end to slavery, while the south wanted slavery to continue. This war finally came to an end on April 9th, 1865. -
A stock market in October 1929 crashed, which sent many investors to panic, companies started failing, workers were laid off. This caused an economic collapse worldwide! In 1932, the country elected Franklin D. Roosevelt as president created a “New Deal '' which made 42 agencies for people to work. After that it took the world 7 years to rebuild its economy and return to its former economical standards. -
World war 2 started on September 1st, 1939. Billions of people were killed. It involved all the major countries, but it started off by Germany invading poland. World war 2 ended on September 2nd, 1945 when Japan accepted a formal surrender after being nuked twice by the US. -
The United States of America and the Soviet Union being the two main countries that were involved in this conflict. There was a huge threat for a nuclear war during this period, as the two superpowers had been testing their own bombs. Near the end of the Cold War, there was a space race between the two, where the two countries raced against each other to see who could get to the Moon first. This conflict lasted until the dissolution of the USSR on December 26th, 1991. -
The board of education on May 17, 1954 made black people be able to go to school with white people (integration).
They said separating children because of their race was unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks was a black woman who refused to give up her seat for a white man on a bus on December 1st, 1955. She was arrested for this, but it triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasted for a year. -
The Mercury launch happened on may 5, 1961. Alan Shepard was the first American to fly out to space in the Freedom 7 capsule. -
In the space race, Russia was the first person to orbit the moon, with wonderful work a colored girl named Kathrine Johnson fought segregation and found an ancient math to let John Glenn go back into orbit safely. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the civil rights movement. He gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28th, 1963, where King outlined the long history of racial injustice in America. -
The United States has been in a war with Russia called the “Space Race” . It was from August 2, 1955 – July 17, 1975. These people landing on the moon for the first time in the world gave the United States an amazing lead in the space race. It took wondrous work and hard overtime.