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First flight of the B-29 Superfortress, the American bomber that would later drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
It was established by the Convention on International Civil Aviation and signed in Chicago on 12 December 1944. The aims and purposes of the Organization are to develop the principles and techniques of international air navigation and to facilitate the organization and development of international air transport. -
The Cold War was a political, economic, social, ideological, military and propaganda war that occurred after World War II between two blocs: the Western (capitalist) bloc and the Eastern (communist) bloc led respectively by the United States and the Soviet Union. -
The first pilot that broke the barrier sound,The speed of sound was thought to be an insurmountable limit that determined the disintegration of gliders. Advances in aerodynamics and materials allowed us to overcome this barrier. This led to the transfer of supersonic aviation research and development, the X-15, and constituted the origin of commercial supersonic flights, which are now being attempted to be reintroduced. -
It was formed in 1949 by the United States and Canada, along with most Western European nations, with the goal of providing collective security vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. NATO was the first and only peacetime military alliance the United States signed outside the Western Hemisphere. -
It radically changed long-distance travel by introducing much higher speeds and improved comfort compared to the propeller-driven aircraft of the time. Despite subsequent structural problems that led to its temporary retirement, the Comet ushered in the commercial jet era and paved the way for modern commercial aviation. -
The first airplane to break the sound barrier was the Bell X-1 in 1947, but it was not a fighter jet, but rather a test aircraft. The first supersonic fighter in history was the North American F-100 Super Sabre, which broke the sound barrier in level flight on its first test flight by reaching speeds greater than the speed of sound in horizontal flight. -
The first commercial flight of the Boeing 707, operated by Pan American World Airways, between New York and Paris, with a refueling stopover in Gander, Canada. This marked the beginning of the "Jet Age" in commercial aviation, pioneering the speed and range of air travel. -
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut and pilot who became the first human to make a journey into outer space, achieving a considerable milestone in the space race; his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of the Earth. -
The construction of the Berlin Wall by the German Democratic Republic was the response to halt the mass exodus of its citizens through East Berlin to West Berlin, escaping the communist regime. The economic crisis and the lack of legitimacy of the communist regime, compounded by the constant influx of people toward capitalism, led the communist regime to decide to build the wall to stem the flow of emigrants and attempt to reassert control over the population. -
She is a Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and politician. She was the first woman to travel into space, chosen from over 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot the Vostok 6. She completed 48 orbits of the Earth during her three days in space. She remains the only woman to complete a solo space mission. -
It was a supersonic passenger jet, an aircraft operated primarily by British Airways and Air France, the supersonic jet that flew at over Mach 2 and whose flight served to reduce transatlantic air travel times to less than half the corresponding time. An aircraft that became a symbol of luxury and prestige. -
The first commercial flight of the Boeing 747, the "Jumbo Jet," took place on January 22, 1970, with Pan American World Airways (Pan Am). The trip was from New York to London, carrying 335 passengers and 20 crew members.
The Boeing 747 revolutionized aviation thanks to its large capacity and two-deck design. Its introduction was a response to the growing demand for larger aircraft for transcontinental and long-haul flights. -
the withdrawal of US forces from the Indochinese peninsula, which was consummated on March 29, 1973, with the signing of the Paris Agreement, or the capitulation of South Vietnam, in 1975, with the capture of Saigon by communist forces, as the occasions where the end of the conflict and the reunification of the country under the aegis of the North Vietnamese government took place. -
The Concorde, which made its first commercial journey on 21 January 1976, did so simultaneously on inaugural flights for Air France (Paris-Rio de Janeiro) and British Airways (London-Bahrain). It was a supersonic aircraft, which attempted to revolutionise transatlantic travel, and which worked for a very small high-end market and for very specific airlines, and with a reduction in flight duration of up to half. -
The aircraft, originally called the DC-9 Super 80, first took off from the Long Beach, California, facility and entered commercial service with Swissair in October 1980. -
It was a doctrine proclaimed by the President of the United States of America Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union address on January 23, 1980, according to which the United States would use military force, if necessary, to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf. A document related to the Carter doctrine, it was the response to the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, and was intended to deter the Soviet Union, its Cold War enemy, which sought hegemony in the Gulf. -
A significant event that marked the end of the Cold War and led to German reunification after 28 years of separation. The consequence was the abolition of travel restrictions through East Berlin, which prompted thousands of people to freely cross the border into the West, which in turn would lead to the implosion of communist regimes in Eastern Europe.