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1914 WW1 begins
The war started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot along with his wife by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. -
1918 world war 1 ends
The Germans surrendered on November 11,1918. The Central Powers which included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire; along with the Allied Powers, which included the United States of America, Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, and Japan, stopped fighting while negotiations were talked over. They came to agreement and the treaty of Versailles was made. -
Red Summer, Palmer Raids 1919
The Palmer raids were violent raids led by the U.S. Attorney general, A. Mitchell Palmer. The palmer riots were direct towards radicals and anarchists in 1919 and 1920. This time period was known as the Red Summer. -
1920 Prohibition Begins
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1924 Immigration Quota Law Passed
The Immigration Act of 1924 shortened the number of immigrants that were allowed to enter the United States through national origins quota. -
1925 Great Gatsby Published
The Great Gatsby is a book that was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's about the tragic life of Jay Gatsby. It takes place in New York during the Jazz Age. -
1927 First "Talkie" film "The Jazz Singer"
"On December 30, 1927, The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. The movie uses Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech." (historylink.org) -
1929 Stock Market Crash
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1930 Dust Bowl Begins
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. -
1932 Veteran's Bonus March
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1932 FDR Elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected as the 32nd president of the United States. -
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor in Germany
On January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
1933 Prohibition Ends
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1937 Japan invades China
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1939 Germany invades Poland, WWII Begins in Europe
The Germans bombed and invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and that was the beginning of World War 2 -
1941 Dec 7, Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombed the U.S. navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. -
1944 June 6, D-Day invasion of beaches at Normandy
On June 6, 1944, American, British, and Canadian forces invaded the coast of Normandy that was being occupied by the Germans. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
1945 April, FDR Dies and Truman becomes president
On April 12, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died due to hemorrhage, and vice president Truman took over. -
1945 May, WWII Victory in Europe
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1945 August, Atomic Bombs dropped, Japan surrenders, WWII ends
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bombs on two cities in Japan. The first city that the atomic bombs hit was Hiroshima and the second one hit Nagasaki. This caused Japan to surrender. The war ended on September 2, 1945.
