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Freidrich Nietzche writes that ideas such as reason, democracy and progress have limited peoples' creativity and action -
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Ethiopians successfully resist an Italian invasion
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Guglielmo Marconi conducts his first successful experiments with the radio
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Ideas of Einstein and Freud have enormous impact on everyone -
Einstein creates theory of relativity
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cubism is established as an art technique by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso
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Women march in a suffrage parade, helping them to gain voting rights
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British factories produce 34,000 automobiles
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Europe's last rulers have been overthrown
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the Bolshevik Revolution takes place
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24% of US Homes have electricity
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Irish poet, William Butler Yeats writes "The Second Coming"
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The Paris Peace Conference is held
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Hitler joins a tine right-wing political group
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Military Forces and wealthy land owners join to make Admiral Miklos Horthy the 1st European post-war dictator
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First radio station, KDKA is established in Pittsburgh, PA
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Ad promises benefits from using a vaccuum
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1920's Many American writers, musicians, and painters leave the US to live in Europe
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Sigmund Freud's ideas have influenced many around the globe -
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1920-1930
Friedrich Nietzsche's words have tremendous impacts on Italy and Germany -
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Airlienes are established
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1920's: Japan becomes militaristic
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Motion pictures are a major industry
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1920's: Japan's goverment becomes more democratic
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T.S. Elliot writes that Western Society had lost its spiritual values
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Irish author, James Joyce receives widespread attention for his novel "Ulysses"
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Japan signs an international treaty agreeing to respect China's borders
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HItler and the Nazis plot to seize power in Munich
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HItler leaves prison
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Mid-1920's: Hitler was a little-known political leader
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Benito Mussolini is one of many totalitarian leaders to rise to power in the 20th century (Italy)
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Czech author, Franz Kafka, publishes "The Trial"
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1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald writes "The Great Gatsby"
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Late 1920's: European nations are re-building war-torn economies
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Czech author, Franz Kafka publishes "The Castle"
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In Poland, Marshall Jozef Pilsudski seizes power
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Charles Lindbergh flies 33-hour solo flight from New York to Paris
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Late 1920's: Sound is added to silent movies
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Stalin's plans call for a command economy
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Stalin's government begins to seize 25+ million privately owned farms in the USSR
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indusrial production of steel increased more than 25 percent
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Japan signs the Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Joseph Stalin is one of many totalitarian leaders to rise to power in the 20th century (Soviet Union)
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The Great Depression strikes
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Asian farmers and urban workers suffer as the value of exports fall by half
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editorial in the Communist Party newspaper Pravda explains the purpose of art: "Literature, the cinema, the arts are levers in the hands of the proletariat which must be used to show the masses positive models of initiative and heroic labor."
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70% of US Homes have electricity
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France is still very agricultural and less dependent on foreign trade
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1930's: Britain and France repeatedly make concessions
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Salvador Dali paints his piece, "The Persistence of Memory"
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Japanese army seizes Manchuria
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Spain has been a monarchy
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Amelia Earhart becomes the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic
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US voters elect FDR as president
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The Nazis have become the largest political party
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General Erich Ludendorff writes a letter to President Hindenburg
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FDR seeks to restore Americans faith in their nation
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Stalin launches a second Five Year Plan, which was equally as successful as the first Five Year Plan
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Adolf Hitler is one of multiple totalitarian leaders to rise to power in the 20th century (Germany)
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Stalin's second Five-Year Plan produces almost twice the wheat than the first Five-Year Plan, before collective farming
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The early washing machine is photographed
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The electric coffee pot is photographed
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Nazis pass laws depriving Jews of most of their rights
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Japan withdraws itself from the League of Nations
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30,000 Fascists march on Rome
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Stalin turns against members of the Communist Party
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The SS arrest and murder hundreds of Hitler's enemies
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The number of unemployed in Germany drops from around 6 million to 1.5 million
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Mid-1930's: Germany and Italy seem bent on military conquest
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Congress passes three nuetrality acts
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One million French are unemployed and governments form and fall
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Mussolini orders massive invasion of Ethiopia
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Hitler announces that Germany won't obey restrictions set forth by the League of Nations
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German troops move into Rhineland
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Army leaders join General Fransisco Franco in a revolt
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Hitler and Mussolini reach an agreement knows as the Rome-Berlin Axis
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Stalin launches the Great Purge to eliminate any who threaten his power
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British are producing 511,000 autos a year
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Unemployment has been cut in half and productions is better than it was in 1929
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Japan conquers Beijing, Nanjinh and other northern cities
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Franco's German allies bomb Guernica
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Hitler announces that he plans on absorbing Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich
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the Great Purge ends
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more than 90% of all peasants lived on collective farms
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Hitler sends his army into Austria and annexes it
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HItler demands that the Sudentenland be given to Germany
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The Munich conference is held
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Nazi mobs attach Jews in their homes and on the streets. They destroy thousands of Jewish owned buildings. This is known as Kristallnacht
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Early 1939: Republican resistance collapses in Spain
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HItler and Stalin publicly pledge never to attack one another
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Kim IL Sung is one of many totalitarian leaders to rise to power in the 20th century (North Korea)
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George Orwell publishes his novel "1984," illustrating the horrors of totalitarian government
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women made up about 75% of Soviet doctors
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Only one democracy, Czechosloakia, remains in Eastern Europe
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Saddam Hussein is one of many totalitarian leaders to rise to power in the 20th century (Iraq)