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American Civil War
It was the United States of America(north) against the Confederate States of america(south). It was in the south eastern states of the USA. The south wanted slavery and the north wanted it banned. The war was between the north and the south of USA. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It was issued by Abraham Lincoln. It was a presidential proclamation to free slaves. In the USA. They freed the slaves because they thought it was bad. -
Black Tuesday
It was everyone in the world. The stock markets crashed and the world went into debt. The hole world got hit by the stock market crash. Stock market prices crashed. -
WWII
It was the Nazis that started the war. It was a war where Hitler wanted to get rid of the Jewish people. It was fought in the European country and Hawaii and Japan. Hitler thought that the Jewish people were bad. -
Cold War
It was a war between the democratic and communists. China, Soviet Union, Cuba, Lao, Vietnam against U.S.A,U.K, Portugal, Norway, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Italy, Iceland, France, Denmark, Canada, Belguim, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Greece, Czech, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Romania. mainly in Europe and Asia. Joseph Stalin wanted a communist world but USA wanted a democratic world. -
Civil Rights Movement
African-American leader in the civil rights movement named Martin Luther King Jr. He used non-violent methods of protest and made speeches about civil rights. It was in the USA. It was believed that racism and segregation was wrong and people wanted to bring an end to both. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of a public bus
Rosa Parks and bus driver James F. Blake. The bus driver told Rosa to move for the white person. It was in the USA. White people thought they were better. -
Soviet Union launched Sputnik
It was the Soviet Union. They sent a satellite to orbit Earth. It was launched in the soviet union area and it was orbiting the Earth. They wanted to be the first to have a satellite orbit the Earth. Soviet Union launched Sputnik -
Moon Landing
Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. They were the first on the moon. It was on the moon. They wanted to be the first on the moon. -
Ham, the first chimp to be launched into space
Ham the Astrochimp. He was the first chip to be sent to space. It was all around the Earth, he was launched from the USA. It was apart of Americas space program.
