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Jim Crow laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws he was trying to have equal rights with whites in 1896 till 1965 -
The Wright Brothers
https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/fly/1903/ Orville and Wilbur were two white American brothers that had the first powered flight in 1903, They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered aircraft. -
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The Great Depression
http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression the great depression was a economic worldwide depression and took place in 1929 until 1941 because there was no jobs because the stock prices fell apart his affected construction farming mining and logging. -
Black Tuesday
https://www.thebalance.com/black-tuesday-definition-cause-kickoff-to-depression-3305819 Wall street crash was a nickname for black Tuesday.
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World War 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
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Cold war
https://www.google.ca/search?q=cold+war&oq=cold+war&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.8063j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on This was a geopolitical tension after the 1st world war between eastern bloc and powers the western bloc. There is disagreements with the dates but it is believed to happen between 1947 and 1991 -
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Civil Rights Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_civil_rights_movement_(1954%E2%80%931968) This was a worldwide series of political movements for equality. This was a long process for many countries but they have led to many improvements in legal rights for the LGBT, woman's rights and other minorities groups. -
Rose Parks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks Born on February 4, 1913, she was referred to "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". In 1955 she refused to moved from her seat on the bus. This was referred to as the Montgomery bus boycott. She was fired from her job and received death threats for years. -
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Greensboro sit in's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins This was a series of non violent protests that happened in 1960 which led to a department store removing its policy on racial segregation in the USA. There were referred to as the "Greensboro four" The name most likely came from the fact that the first sit in was held at the Woolworth store in Greensboro North Carolina. -
First Russian in space
https://www.space.com/16159-first-man-in-space.html The first Russian in space was Yuri Gagarin he flew to outer space on the vostok space craft he completed his orbit of the earth in a 108 minutes. The Russians beat the Americans to space.
