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The years between 1898 involved the most cataclysmic events to human history. 1898 marked the Spanish-American War. 1914 narked the beginning of the First World War. 1941 to 1945 marked the even more profound Second World War. 1945 saw the first uses of nuclear weapons in combat against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1947 and 1948 saw the independence of Israel and India from Britain, and tragic secondary wars from their partitions. 1949 saw Chairman Mao Zedong's forces assert communist control over the mainland China. 1951-1953 marked the Korean War, and the first United Nations use of authorized to defend the peninsula. 1953 also was the death of Josef Stalin. 1956 marked the Soviet Invasion of Hungary, and Anglo-French-Israeli Suez Crises. 1961 saw Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first man to enter space. 1959 saw the first American deaths of what would be the Vietnam War lasting until 1975. Lastly, the young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963.

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