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It Started on July 28th 1914 and ended November 11th 1918.
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The war was ended by the signing of many different treaties, the most important being the Treaty of Versailles.
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The League of Nations was the predecessor to the United Nations. The League was founded after World War 1.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi party.
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Joseph Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union. He dies in 1953.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the world's first officially Communist state, is formed.
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation founded under J. Edgar Hoover.
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Death of Vladimir Lenin triggers power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
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Trotsky is exiled. UNKNOWN DAY
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The beginning of the Great Depression.
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Gandhi leads hundreds on along March Dandi to protest salt tax.
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1931-39, Japan invaded Manchuria (in nth east China). No action was taken.
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1932-34, Germany complained that they were the only country to disarm, The League could not get other members to agree to disarm.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States.
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With the death of President Hindenburg, Hitler declares himself Fuhrer of Germany.
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1935-36, Italy invaded Abysinia, League members could not agree on effective sanctions against Italy.
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Japanese invasion of China, and the beginning of World War II.
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Nazi invasion of Poland triggers the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor, which leads to the USA joining World War II.
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Planning of the holocaust.
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Battle of Stalingrad, ended with 2 million casualties and the retreat of the German army. Ended 2 February 1943.
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The Battle of Normandy was fought in World War II in 1944. It was fought by the Allied forces against Germans. The purpose of the Normandy invasion, code named Operation OVERLORD, was to get the Allied army onto the continent of Europe.
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Deaths of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
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Creation of the atomic bomb, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The Holocaust ends after 12 million deaths, including 6 million Jews.
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United Nations founded.
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Assassination of Mohandas Gandhi.
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Rev Brown won the right to send his child to a white only school.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person, this event is what inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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In 1957 nine black students wiho had Military Protection went to a white school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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In Nashville, Tennessee 500 students organised sit-ins at restaurants, libraries and churches. Many students were expelled but 400 teachers stood by them and threatened to resign, so the colleges backed down.
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He had his inaugural speech the following year.
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May 1961 CORE activists began a protest called the "Freedom Rides".
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A quarter of a million people, marched to the Lincoln memorial to hear kings "I have a dream".
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The Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation in schools, public places and jobs.
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The Voting Rights Act gave all black people the right to vote.
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The Australian Referendum granted Indigenous Australians the right to be counted in the Census
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The fair housing act banned discrimination in housing.
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It took 10,000 federal troops to stop people rioting after Martin Luther King was assassinated, 60,00 people gathered for his funeral including family, politicians and celebrities.
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The Arbitration Commission decides to gradually increase women's pay until it reaches the same level as that of a male in the same job.
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