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The Magna Carta set down rights that became part of English law.
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When Mehmed conquered Constantinople, he made it the capital for the Ottoman empire.
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Columbus sailed across the Atlantic trying to reach India. Instead he discovered the America's.
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The Mayflower took the pilgrims to America.
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The English Bill of Rights limited the power of the monarch.
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It was a small steam powered carrage with no seats or pilot control.
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The Declaration of Independence is what declared the United States independent from British rule.
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The Ratification of the US Constitution created the federal governmet for the United States.
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The French Revoution started when the country went bankrupt and when they had bad harvests.
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Napoleon crowned himself instead of letting the pope do it like in the past.
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Napoleon was defeated and then abdicated as emperor and sent to live in St. Helena.
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The US Civil War put an end to slavery in the United States.
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The first man powered flight was conducted by Wilbur and Orville Wright.
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The Mexican Revolution started because of a disagreement between the people of Mexico and their president Porfirio Díaz.
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There were many causes og the republican revolution but the main cause was the fact that the European countries had so much power over China.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated because many Serbians were unhappy about the fact that Serbia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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The main reason the United States entered WWI was because od the sinking of a British ship, the Lusitania, that had many US citizens on borad.
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The Bolshevik Revolution was a revolution lead by Lenin to over throw the Russian government.
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The Armistice marked the end of the war with Germany.
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The Germans invaded Poland trying to gain more land thus starting World War II.
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The Japanese decided to attack the US and chose to bomb Pearl Habor because that's where most of the United States naval ships were held.
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The Germans surrendered when Hitler commited suicide.
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The United States dropped the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima as an attempt to stop the war.
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The second atomic bomb dropped on Japan was in Nagasaki.
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Japan surrendered in order to stop the destruction of their country.
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Churchill gave the Iron Curtain speech in order to stop another world war to occur.
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The Berlin Airlift was the dilvery of food to west Berlin during the cold war.
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The communists gained control over China because their fighting tactics were stronger.
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The Korean War was the leaders of Korea using war to try to being the country back together.
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The Vietnam war started because they wanted freedom from French rule.
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The Berlin wall was constructed to seprate the commies from the anyone against communist rule.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest anyone has ever gotten to a nucleur war.
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JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The Tet Offensive was a bunch of attacks on major cities all on the same day.
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The first man to walk on the moon was an important event for the United States because it meant we beat the Russins to the moon.
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Woodstock was a festival for peace and music.
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The watergate scandal was a political scandal leading to the resignginaton of Nixon.
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The americans left Vietnam beacuse they were no longer going to be helpful over there.
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It was a protest in China to against the government.
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The re-unificaton of Germany happened when the Berlin wall was finally broken.
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It helped african americans and white people live in harmony in South Africa.
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The USSR ended because they we're becoming weaker and weaker as time went on.
