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Bessemer Process
Iron id a dence metal, it tends to break and rust. It also contains other elements such as carbon. If yu remove the carbon from the iron, it turns into lighter rust resitent material called steel. The raw materials needed to make steel were readly avalible. The process is called the Bessemer process. -
A National Network
By this time, the railroads extended west to to the Mississippi River, three years later, they crossed the the missouri. A decade later crowds around the U.S. cheered as the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met at Promontory -
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Industrialzation
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New uses for steel
The railroadds became the biggest customers of steel. Inventors soon found other uses for it. Joseph Glidden's barbed wire and McCormick's and Deere's farm machines. Steel also changed the innovation of construction possable. One of the most famous is the Brooklynn Bridge. It spanned 1,595 feet over the East river in New York City. -
The Haymarket Affair
3,000 people gahtered at Chicago's Haymarket Square to protest police brutality- a striker had been killed and several others wounded at the plant the day before. Someone tossed a bomb into the police line and police fired on the workers. seven ploice offecers and several works died. After Haymarket, the public began to turn against the labor movement. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was heir to the trone in Austria. He visited the Bosnian capital Sasrajevo . As the royal entorage drove through the city, Serbiran nationalist Gavrilo Princip stepped from t the crowd and shot the Archduke and his whiife Sophie. Princip was part of the Black Hand, and organization promotin Seberian nationlism. -
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WW1
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German U-Boat
Germany responded to the british blockade with a counterblock by U-boats. Any british or allied ship would be sunk. A U-boat sunk the british liner Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland. -
The collapse of germany
The Austrian-Hungary surrandered to the allies. That same day german sailors mutinied against government atthority. -
The new urban seen
With a population of 5.6 milion people (New York)
A population of 3.6 million people (Chacago)
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Orgnized Crime
Chacago became notorius for the home of Al Capone, an american gangsta whose bootlegging empire netted over 60 million dollars a year. Al Capone took control of the Chacago Liquor buesness. -
The scopes trail
Tenesisiratnv passed the nations first law that made it a crime to teach evoltion. -
Nazis take over Germany
Hitler was appointed chancellor (prime minister). Once in power, he quickly dismantled Germany's democratic Weimar Republic. In its place, he establisged the Third Reich, or Third German Empire. According to hitler, it would last for one thousand years. -
Adolf Hitler
Hitler created a German vertion of fascion called nazism. He dreamed of uniting all German people into one great German empire. He set forth his beliefes of nazisim and became the plan of action for the Nazi party. -
Joseph Stallin
He firmly established totalitarian government that triedd to exert complete control over its' citizans. In one of these stats, individuals have no rights, and government supresses all oppostion. -
Blitzkrieg in Poland
As day broke on the date above, the german Luftwaffe, or airforce roared over Poland, raining bombs on military bases, airfeilds, railroads, and cities. At this time German tanks raced across the Poland contryside. This invasion was the first text of Germany's newest ilitary stratagy, The blitzkrieg. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with the expectaions that once the Americans had experianced Japans power they would avoid further contact. The attacked killed 2,403 Americans and wounded 1,178 more. The Japanese had damaged or sunk 21 American ships, including 8 battleships. More then 300 aircraft were severly damaged. -
D-Day
The allied invation was codenamed opperation overlord was orignally sat for June 5th but foul weather forced a delay. Eisenhower than gave the goahead the following day for clear skys. This was the largest land-air-sea opperation in the Military history -
The Allies Gain Ground
Omar Bradley unleashed massave air and land bombardmentagainst the enemy at St. Lo^providing a gap in german line defence through which General George Patton and his third army would adance. On august 23rd, patton and his third army reached the Seine River south of Paris.
