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World Ward I
This was the first global war that was centered in Europe, and drew in all the worlds economic powers. -
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The Great Depression
This was a severe economic depression that had devasting effects on our country. -
Mother during the Great Depression
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California. -
Pearl Harbor
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Vietnam War
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First Man in Space - Yuri Gagarin, Russia
Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to make a trip to space when his spacecraft orbitted the earth on April 12, 1961. -
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No Child Left Behind
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Watergate
This scandal involved repulicans breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate offices, and eventually resulted in the resignation of President Nixon.
