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The first successful piloted, powered airplane flight occurred on December 17, 1903, by Orville Wright in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds, traveled 120 feet, and marked the beginning of the age of aviation. -
World War 1 lasted 4 years and was fought between the Allied Powers (including France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (primarily Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria). -
The Russia Revolution was a period of political and social rising in 1917 that overthrew the tsarist autocracy and led to the establishment of the Soviet Union. -
The Spanish flu is a devastating and previously unknown form of influenza, struck Canada hard between 1918-1920. This international pandemic killed approximately 50,000 people in Canada, most of whom were young adults between the ages of 20 and 40 -
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The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1. It ended the state war between Germany and the allied powers. it was signed on the 28th of June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduck Franz Ferdinand. -
Women gained the right to vote in political elections, this movement fought for gender equality and citizenship, leading to the right to vote in 1920 in the United States and Canada. -
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A severe global economic downturn from 1929-1939, triggered by the 1929 stock market crash and characterized by high unemployment, poverty, and business. -
The rise to power of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945 -
World War 2 fought between the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (including Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). -
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The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War 2. Nazi Germany and it's collaborators murdered 6 million Jews across German-occupied Europe. -
August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War 2. The bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. -
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The Cold War was a period of geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, lasting from the end of World War 2 in 1945 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 -
The mid-20th-century struggle for racial equality in the United States, showed by leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, leaded the Civil Rights Movement, bringing about substantial social and legal transformations. -
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A 20th-century competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for supremacy in spaceflight. Key events during this were the first man in space (Yuri Gagarin, 1961) and the first man on the moon (Neil Armstrong, 1969). -
The fall of the Berlin wall was the first step towards German reunification. In 1989, political changes in eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the east German government to loosen some of it's regulations on travel to west Germany. -
Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, the worlds first web server and browser. This invention changed the way we communicate, the way we store information, the way we interact as human beings, fundamentally and immeasurably forever. -