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Japan,Gemany, and Italy sign the Tripartite pact
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First basketball game played
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First Olympics held in Athens,Greece
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henry ford opens his assembly lines to african american workers
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Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
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Battle of Shaiba
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Russia Communist Revolution begins
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Passage of the Selective Service Act
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espionage and sedition acts passed by congress
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War industries board established to regulate production to WWI
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food administration set up under herbert hoover
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Russia withdraws from WWI
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national war labor board established by woodrow wilson
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the signing of the treaty of versailles ended world war i
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passage of prohibition and end of prohibition
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benito mussolini became prime minister of italy
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Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop translantic flight
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The stock market crashes "Black Tuesday"
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Ameila Earhart crosses he Atlantic in a solo flight
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first fireside chat by FDR
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Dust Bowl
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Works progress administration established
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jesse owens wins four gold metals at Olympics in germany
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Orson welles broadcast the WAR of the worlds
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Kristallnacht hitler destroys jewish neighborhoods
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Hitler and Stalin sign non aggression Pact
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WWII
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Germany invades poland britain and france declare war
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German General Rommel surrenders n North Africa
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Japan bombs pearl harbor U.S enters WWII
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D-Day invasion
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Battle of the Bulge
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Japanese internment camps begin
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yelta conference
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bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki
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