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Air Mail
The first transcontinental airmail service was made in the U.S. alot of the world war one pilots brought back mail on their planes on their way back. -
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The Roaring 20's
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Scopes Trial
Tennessee passed the nation's first law that made it a crime toteach evolution. Scopes was put on trial for teaching Evoultion and was put on trial for this, because the law was against it. -
Babe Ruth
Babe rut as a slugger smasheed home run after home run during the 1920's when this legandary star hit a record of 60 home runs in 1927 -
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the great depression
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Pearl Harbor
The japs bombed pearl harbor early in the morning -
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World War 2 And it's Aftermath 1931-1960
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black sunday
a dust storm tore across the midwest, and the country covering everthing with dust, winds up to 65 mph. -
KristallNacht
Night of Broken Glass-Nazi storm troopers went around at anight destroying jewish businesses and homes around 100 jews were killed and by the end of the night glass filled the streets. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
This terrorist attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor (an American Military Base in the Pacific Ocean) brought America into World War 2. The war lasted 6 years and 1 day. -
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The Cold War
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Death of a Journalist.
Dutch journalist and writer Jan Campert dies in the Neuengamme concentration camp. -
War on the AXIS
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu (defeat of the French in Vietnam)
This battle lasted until May 7th 1954, 1 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days and culminated in a French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva. Military historian Martin Windrow wrote that Dien Bien Phu was "the first time that a non-European colonial independence movement had evolved through all the stages from guerrilla bands to a conventionally organized and equipped army able to defeat a modern Western occupier in pitched battle" -
Soviets Launch Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 585 mm (23 in) diameter shiny metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses detectable. The surprise success precipitated the
