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The first successful British settlement in mainland North America.
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There is no specific date when the Industrial Revolution began. The revolution first began in Britain in the 1760s as a result of development of new machines and factory system. Lagging behind Britain, America's Industrial Revolution began in the 1790s.
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The American war for independence from the British starts.
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The war ended with American victory. Through the Treaty of Paris, America fully gained its independence from Britain.
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The US purchased about 827,000 square miles of lad west for the Mississippi River for $15 million from France.
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On that day, the American Civil War started when the Confederates fired the first shot at Fort Sumter.
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President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre in Washington DC.
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The American Civil War ends with Union victory, reuniting the south and the north. Although slavery was ended with the Emancipation Proclamation, many slaves in the south did not see freedom until the war ended.
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The Great War began with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia exactly a month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As a result of the alliances, the rest of Europe was gradually dragged into the war. America entered the war on April 6, 1917.
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The Great War ended when Germany signed the armistice with the Allies. Germany was last of the Central Powers to sign an armistice.
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The stock market crashed on this day, sending the world into a severe economic depression. This day is known as Black Tuesday.
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The Great Depression ended sometime in the middle of 1939. There is no specific end date.
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The deadliest war in human history began with the German Invasion of Poland on this day. Many historians agree on this date because this is the date when the war broadened to a global scale. The Pacific Theater was already in a state of war. The Japanese invaded Manchuria, China on September 18, 1931.
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The war officially ended when Japan surrendered to the Allies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Germany Surrendered to the Allies on May 8, 1945.
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On this day, the Truman Doctrine was announced by Harry S Truman to Congress. Many people see this as the official start date of the Cold War, however, tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States were high immediately after the end of War War II.
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On this day, the GDR announced that all East Germans may visit West Germany. This event symbolized the thawing Cold War.
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The Soviet Union dissolved on this day, ending the Cold War. On the previous day, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag over the Kremlin was lowered after Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation and replaced with the flag of the Russian Federation.
