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Slavery was abolished
On this date slavery in America was abolished. A law went into affect to end slavery and to make in illegal. This law said that slavery, nor involuntary servitude was allowed, unless it was punishment for a crime. -
Hitler’s forces invade Poland
On this day Hitler and his army invade Poland. It is estimated that 1.5 million German soldiers attacked and invaded the country. Polish airfields were bombed and German warships attacked Polish Naval forces. -
Pearl Harbor
On this day an American military base was attacked by the Japanese military. This event is what caused the United States to join World War II -
Prisoners liberated from Auschwitz
On this date Prisoners that were left at Auschwitz are freed by Soviet troops. The majority and the rest of the prisoners were forced out of the camp before the Soviet troops arrived and were led on a death march. -
Germany Surrenders
On this day Germany officially surrendered to the Allies after General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces, in the East, West, and at Reims. This ended the European conflict in World War II. -
United States bombs Hiroshima, Japan
On this day the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The five-ton pound bomb was dropped by an American bomber called the Enola Gay. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
An American spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy and the Soviet leader then had an intense 13-day conflict in which President Kennedy requested that the missiles be removed from Cuba. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech
On this day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his very famous “I Have a Dream” speech. He was a very big civil rights activist and he gave this speech during a march in Washington D.C. -
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
On this day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was killed while he was riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
On this day the Berlin Wall in Germany was taken down. The Berlin Wall was a guarded barrier that divided the city of Berlin. The wall is seen as a symbol of the Cold War, and was used to separate the Eastern communist side of Berlin, and the Western democratic side of the city. -
The apartheid ended
During this year the apartheid in South Africa was ended. The apartheid was a period of time when non-whites and whites were separated in South Africa. The whites lived lavish, expensive, and very comfortable live. While everyone who wasn’t white lived in poverty and lived in places that were filthy and not nice at all. -
9/11
On this day America experienced a terrorist attack. Terrorists hijacked four planes that day. Two crashed into the Twin Towers in New York. One hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The fourth one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania and was thought to be headed towards the White House.
