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American Civil War
The civil war was fought between the northern and southern states of America. The civil war was fought between 1861 and 1865, it lasted 4 years. The civil war officially began on April 12 1861, when Confederate forces bombarded the Union-controlled Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay. There were many causes of the civil war, including differences between northern and southern states on the idea of slavery, as well as trade, tariffs, and states rights. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers. By 1933 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half the country’s banks had failed. -
World war 2
The two dates most often mentioned as “the beginning of World War II” are July 7, 1937. Causes are when the “Marco Polo Bridge Incident” led to a prolonged war between Japan and China, and September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation.
Most of the combat action took place in Europe, East Asia, and islands in the Pacific Ocean, nPoland, China, Russia, and Germany -
End of World War 2
On September 2, 1945, representatives from the Japanese government and Allied forces assembled aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to sign the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, which effectively ended World War II. -
Cold war
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were the world's strongest nations. They were called superpowers. They had different ideas about economics and government. They fought a war of ideas called the Cold War. -
Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a mass popular movement to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. ... African American men and women, along with whites, organized and led the movement at national and local levels. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in the front of a public bus
Rosa Parks boards a city bus to go home and sits in the middle of the bus where black people are allowed to sit, as long as no white person is standing. The driver notices that all the seats in the "Whites Only" section are now taken and that more white people have boarded. He orders the people in Mrs. Parks's row to move to the back of the bus, where there are no open seats. No one budges at first. But when the driver barks at the black passengers again, they all get up except for Rosa Parks. -
Launch of Project Mercury
Project Mercury was a NASA program. It launched the first Americans into space.
Astronauts made six flights during the Mercury project. Two of those went to space and came right back down. Four of them went into orbit and circled Earth. The first of the six flights was in 1961. The last flight was in 1963. -
Martin Luther King gives his famous “I Have a Dream Speech”
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. -
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans to land on the moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. They landed on the moon in the Lunar Module.
