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the civil war
in the southern united states, there was a war raging between the unions and the Confederates why, because of the freedom of the african amerians in the end the unions won and the blacks were free. -
first flight
20 feet above a wind swept beach in north Carolina the first flight is taking place. the flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet -
black Tuesday (start of great depression)
the wall street crash was one of the main causes of the great depression were stock prices went down and everything fell apart -
cold war starts
the cold war was pretty much just the us and Russia fighting over who could blow up more stuff the fastest and also they went to space -
civil rights movement
The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1964. ... Three years after the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education and two years after the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction. -
sputnick
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses -
project mercury is launched
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. -
the start of nasa
space act creates the national astronautics and space administrations (nasa) -
martin Luther's I have A dream speech
Martin Luther gives his famous I have A dream speech -
apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. -
cold war ends
The Cold War ended as a result of internal factors such as Gorbachev's reforms, the weak economy of the USSR and the Satellite States breaking away from the USSR, and external factors such as US-Soviet diplomacy, and various treaties being signed that limited arms.
