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  Great Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the United States, and other allies defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria.
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  The countries of the Allies included Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal and Montenegro
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  The National Council for the Social Studies was founded.
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  A severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II
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  It involved the vast majority of the world's nations.
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  Pearl HarborThe attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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  This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War.
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  The civil rights movement was a series of worldwide political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s.
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  Sputnik was the first sattellite launched.
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  Vietnam was a long and costly war
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  The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin.
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  Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
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  The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States.
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  Included Title 1: the government's flagship aid program for disadvantaged students.
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  There were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks.