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Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street crash, also known as the Great Crash began in late october 1929. The Great Crash is said to be the worst Stock Market in America when taking into consideration the duration of its fallout. The crash was the cause for a 10-year Great Depression. It effected almost the whole world and anyone who bought stocks in mid-1929 and held onto them saw most of his or her adult life pass by before getting back to even. -
Anschlus between Austria and Germany
On the 12th of March 1938 Hitler announced that Germany and Austria now had alliance. Despite the fact that Hitler did not have the full approval of Austrian Social Democrats, the rise of a pro-Nazi right-wing party within Austria in the mid-1930s were a cause for Hitler to make his move. In 1938, Austrian Chancellor , bullied by Hitler during a meeting at Hitler's retreat home in Berchtesgaden, agreed to a greater Nazi presence within Austria. -
Pearl Harbour
The Japanese felt if they could deliver a serious enough blow to the US pacific fleet that the US would simply let them have their way. The Japanese sent a carrier force across the north pacific and attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 a Sunday morning. Catching the Americans completly by suprise the all eight of the american battleships were sunk or badly damaged. The american carriers were all out to sea and escaped destruction. The USA then joined the war. -
The bombing of Nagasaki
The bombing of Nagasaki on August 9th was the last major act of World War Two and within days the Japanese had surrendered.As Nagasaki had been targeted in the past, people in the city had become blasé when the air raid siren sounded. The same was true on August 9th. The irony was that Nagasaki was well served with good bomb shelters and far fewer people would have been killed or injured if the air raid sirens had been listened to. The bombing played a big role in Japan surrendering WW2. -
Montgomery Bus Strike
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a huge event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial seperation on the public transport system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision to stop the segregation. -
Publication of Silent Spring
Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement.The book documented detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting industry claims without looking into it. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis, known as the October crisis in Cuba, was a 13 day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962. It is one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. The Cuban Missile Crisis paved a different path for the outcomes of the Cold War the world. -
The Population Bomb Publication
The Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich in 1968. It warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. Fears of a "population explosion" were widespread in the 1950s and 60s, but the book and its author brought the idea to an even wider audience. -
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9-11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. areas on September 11, 2001. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The Septermber 11 attacks will forever be remembered to be one of Americas most tragic events of all time. -
Death of Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi was a corrupt lybian leader who had been in power for too long. He murderd innocent people, killed prisoners for fun, supported terroroism and eventually the lybian citizens had enough of being treated unfair. A civil war broke out in Lybia and Gaddafi was murdered in a sewer.
