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Medical advances- safer blood transfusions, new medicines, and improved anesthesia are pioneered and are vital during World war 2
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Extreme weather conditions brought diseases to the small quantity of crops that could be raised.
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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Germany, Japan, and Italy withdraw from the league of Nations
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CBS new chief, Edward R. Murrow coordinates radio broadcast from several European cities to keep urban and rural Americans informed of the coming crisis on the continent.
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Olympics in Berlin, a black Alabama native educated at Ohio State University, Jesse Owens, wins four gold medal. He breaks Olympic and world records, but German dictator, Adolf Hitler, refuses to recognize the American's achievements.
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Hitler marches into Austria
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Germany invades Poland
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Great Britain declares war on Germany
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Soon all of Europe is fighting
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The first commercial air flight crosses the Atlantic Ocean and the helicopter is invented.
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World War 2
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Battle of Britain
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The U.S. enters the war
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FDR supplies Britain and the allies with guns and material
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Attack of Pearl Harbor
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Anne Frank goes into hiding
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Soviet Satellite "sputnik"
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Germans Surrender
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Cold War
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First nonstop flight
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World war 2 delays the development of television until the 1950's
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Postwar baby boom begins
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Korean war starts
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Joseph Stalin dies
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First atomic Submarine
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War Pact signed
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Vietnam War begins
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NORAD radar system was create
