The first successful shipboard launch of an airplane from a Navy warship occurred on November 14th 1910 from the Navy cruiser Birmingham. The pilot was a civilian named Eugene Ely.
Stockpiles of strategic nuclear weapons began to decline in the United States in "<span>d. the mid-1990s," due to the fact that this was when the Cold War really began to come to a close. </span>
Italy, Germany, and Spain were all headed by fascist dictatorships in 1940. Greece, however, had a democratically elected government.
