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roar 20s
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Babe Ruth
New York Yankee slugger Babe Ruth smashed home run after the home run during 1920s. When this legendry star hit a record 60 home runs in 1927, amercans went wild. -
Al Capone
was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the Capones. was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931. -
Boxing Match
on september 22,approximatley 50 million Americans sat listing to a radio. the were hearing somehting called the boxing match between the former heavy wieght champ Jack Dempsy and the current tittle holder,Gene Tunney. -
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The Great Depression
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farming during the great depression
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japan invades manchuria
when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected presidents
also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. -
The 21st admendent ends probihition
to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. The Twenty-first amendment was ratified on December 5, 1933. It is unique among the 27 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution for being the only one to repeal a previous Amendment, and for being the only one to have been ratified by the method of the state ratifying convention. -
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WWII : War in Europe
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Bliltzrieg
one year after annexing the sudetenland, german troops invade the remainder of Czechoslovakia. -
poland gone
3 week later russia invade the other half of poland. and both countirs took over poland and now there no more poland. -
Dogfight : battle of britain
to weaken the airforce of german began 2 month of bombing targeting both british citeis and factories. -
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The Cold War
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Nuclear Warfare
Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare), is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on an opponent. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can be vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage, and in a much shorter time frame. A major nuclear exchange could have severe long-term effects, primarily from radiation release, but also from the production of high levels of atmospheric pollution leading -
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Living with Great Turmoil
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Space Race
The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (USA) for supremacy in space exploration. Between 1957 and 1975, the Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration, which were seen as necessary for national security and symbolic of technological and ideological superiority -
John.F Kenndy was elected
Kenndy became the 35th presindent of united stae on a crisp and spraking day in januray. -
U.s launches the bay of pigs invasion
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The Cuban Missle Crisis
It is one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict -
JFK was assinated
he was shot through the neck and hit the drive too.
