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17cm Mittlerer Minenwerfer
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World War 1- The Battle of Passchendaele
As I was wheeled out into battle in the first World War I in the Battle of Passchendaele. As I reached the battle field I heard a gun shot. I was loaded with a shell. I fired. It landed about 600 meters away in a British trench. The battle lasted for 3 weeks and 6 days. The battle was against us, the German Empire, and the British. The British had lost 244,897 soldiers and the Germans had lost about 400,000 soldiers. We had lost the battle. -
1929 Stock Market Crash
I was listing to the radio in a soon to be Nazi bunker. I had heard the stock market had crashed on Wall Street. The one of the two men in the bunker was laughing saying that the Americans were idiots and it would never happen to Germany. I knew they were wrong. The stock market had crashed 23% in America. The man who didn't laugh said that it might come to Germany. He was shot dead. The other man killed him for speaking the truth. It would come to Germany. -
The Great Depression
LIke I said a month ago, the depression would come to Germany. I was sitting in the same spot in a Nazi bunker listening to the radio again. The radio person was saying that it had become a world wide depression, not just in America. Tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25%. The Nazis that were listening next to me were saying that they were worryed if Hitler would go to war with the countrys of the world. -
World War 2- The Battle of Vyborg Bay
After 26 years of just sitting around in a Nazi army base I had been deployed for battle again. I was ready for yet another battle. I was deployed to Vyborg Bay. I was yet again loaded with a mortar shell and.... BOOM! It landed and hit some soldiers. As the day wore on I kept launching mortars. At the end of the battle us, the Germans and the Finnish had won the battle. It was naval and land warfare. -
Korean War
By the time this war came around I was sitting in an American bunker because I had been captured by American troops after the 2nd World War. I was listening to radio, and it said that South Korea and North Korea had gone to war. The announcer said that North Korea became a communist country. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. -
Civil Rights Movement
I was sitting outside in Washing to D.C. when I had heard feet pounding against the ground. I then saw about one million African- American people and some white walking dow the street. THey had signs that said,"Equal rights for blacks!", and, "Treat us like you treat eachother." The Civil Rights Movement was and is a worldwide political movement for equality before the law. In some situations it was followed by civil unrest and armed rebellion. It wwent from 1955-1965. MLK played a big roll. -
Vietnam Conflict
I was being moved from one side of the old antique shop to another the radio was playing and I heard some strange things being said that American troops were wanted in Vietnam for the war. The radio person said that his conflict followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries. -
Sputnik
I was finnally bought and I was being shipped of to Kansas where my owner was. On the way there I had heard that a satellite called Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 585 mm diameter shiny metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. The Soviet Union launched on 4 October 1957. It was what put the Soviet Union ahead of the United States in the space race. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
I was taking some target practice with my owner and as he fired of some rounds. We listened to the radio and it mentioned that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962. It was one of the major confrontations of the Cold War. Nikita Khrushchev came up with the idea of placing Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt. -
Moon Landing
It was the great day of the of the United States landing a man on the moon! I could see the T.V. as my owner watched, and the T.V. person said that Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the moon. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface. A third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the command spacecraft alone in lunar orbit. Their mission lasted for about 21 hours.
