General Robert E. Lee
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The American Civil War resolved two great issues: the nature of the Federal Union (and the relative power of the states and central government); and the existence of black slavery. On his election as US president (Nov 1860), Abraham Lincoln was opposed to the extension of slavery. This provoked South Carolina into seceding from the Union (Dec 1860). 
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The American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) was a war fought between the British Crown and its colonies in North America, allied with France, from 1775 to 1783. The eventual outcome was the recognition of independence of the 13 southernmost of the colonies, as well as lightly settled territories west to the Mississippi River. .
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The Middle Ages
The Crusades
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The Crusades were a series of several military campaigns sanctioned by the 11th through 13th centuries. They began as Muslims but developed into territorial wars. .
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Revolution Francaise
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The French Revolution occurred during the years 1789-1792, just a few years after the American Revolution. The King of France, Louis XVI, was overthrown in a popular Turgot, and other theorists of the Enlightenment, and most proximately by the financial disarray of the government resulting in sharply higher taxes.
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Russian Leaders
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The Russian Revolution was a political movement in Russia that climaxed in 1917 with the overthrow of the Russian Tsar system and led to the establishment of the Soviet Union, which lasted until 1992. This movement was led by Vladimir Lenin and marked the beginning of the spread of communism in the twentieth century.
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WWI German
Oberursel Aircraft Aviation
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World War I, also called the First World War and, prior to World War II, the Great War and the War to End All Wars, was an event that changed nearly every aspect of life in the western world and created the modern world. The conflict itself lasted from July 28, 1914 until November 11, 1918, involved 32 nations, took the lives of an estimated 10 million people, and physically or mentally injured around 20 million. The two sides were the Central Powers or Coalition (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria) and the Associated Powers or Allies (28 nations including Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the US).
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London Blitz
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World War II was a war fought from 1939 to 1945 in Europe, although war had been raging in Asia for most of the 1930's. It was the largest armed conflict the world has ever seen, spanning the entire world and involving more countries than any previous war - and fought with powerful new weapons, culminating in the first use of atomic bombs, whose very existence had been a tightly-held secret.
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