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American Civil War
Who: United States vs Confederate States of America. Why: Argument about Slavery. What:The American Civil War is what most would call the factor that determined what kind of country America would be.|When: 1861-1865. Where: United States of America, Atlantic Ocean -
Wright Bros first Powered Flight
Who: Wright Brothers| What: First successful airplane is invented| Where: North Carolina| Why: Wanting to be the first to invent it -
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The Great Depression
Who: World Wide Economy| What: Economic Fall| Where: Started in U.S. but become worldwide in October 29 1929| Why: HUGE fall in stock prices -
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World War 2
Who: Germany, Italy, Germany, vs Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, vs China, and USA.| What: A war which brought many casualties and is the biggest war in the world.| Where: Europe, Russia, Africa, Asia, Pacific Ocean, Middle East, Atlantic Ocean, Eurasia, Mediterranean Sea, Southeast Asia, and Scandinavia.| Why: It was started when Germany Attacked Poland unprovoked, Britain and France started a war against Germany when Hitler refused to end his attack on Poland -
V-J Day: Victory over Japan Day
Who: Japan, the whole world| What: End of World War 2, when United States President Truman announced Japan's surrender to the world| Where: Tokyo Bay, on the USS Missouri| Why: Because it marked the end of World War 2 which meant safety to be outside and do things. -
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Cold War
Who: The United States Against the Soviet Union.| What: After the events of world war 2 the United States and Soviet Union Emerged as the world's strongest nations but they had different ideas of economics and government, They fought a war of ideas called the cold war.| Where: USA, Soviet Union, Europe, Vietnam, Cuba, Korea, Greece, East Asia, and South America.| Why: A Strong Rivalry between United States and the Soviet union. -
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Civil Rights Movement
Who: Martin Luther King Jr. | What: A struggle for African American freedom, the goal was to end discrimination, have an equal chance to get hired, equal education, equal housing, the right to vote, and equal access to community buildings| Where: South United States| Why: It started when Rosa Parks (an African American) was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus. -
Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and the dawn of the Space Age begins
Who: The Soviet Union| What: The launching of the world's first artificial satellite which was about the size of a beach ball, marking the start of the space race| Where: Launched in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan| Why: To provide scientists with useful information about the ionosphere. -
The Creation of NASA
Who: President Dwight D. Eisenhower.| Why: NASA was created because of the space with Russia, and the launch of the sputnik.| What: NASA is the National Aeronautics Space Administration.| Where: United States of America -
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Project Mercury
Who: Walter H. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Alan B. Shephard, Virgil I, Gus Grimson, and L. Gordon Cooper|What: The first human space flight program| Where: Cape Canaveral| Why: To send Americans to space and have a spacecraft with people inside to orbit earth
