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The Titanic sunk after hitting a big iceberg.1,517 people died on that ship.
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The US starts WWI. 370,000 African Americans fought in this war with soldiers. The US allied with Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan against Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
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Harlem Renaissance- A period where black people could express their art freely. This included artists, scholars, musicians, poets, etc. This was also a period of cultural expression.
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Riots start in Chicago, Houston, Little Rock, Harlem, Washington D.C., and other places because blacks wanted equality and whites did not want them to have it.
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The 18th amendment was passed prohibiting the sale of alcohol in the US.
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The 19th amendement is passes and it gave women the right to vote.
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Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to fly a plane.
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When Celie is 14 years old, she gives birth to Olivia and Adam. She was raped by Alphonso, her father. Alphonos takes the children from Celie ,so Celie thinks they are dead.
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40,000 memebers of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to promote their disagreements about African American equality.
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Mr.___ wants to marry Nettie. After Alphonso tells Mr.___ he can't, he offers Celie to him ,and he accepts.
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The stock market crashes and everyone loses their money, homes, and jobs. This was the start of the Great Depression.
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Nettie escapes to Mr.___ house from Alphonso after he rapes her. Netties asks if she can stay there but Mr.___ says no and kicks her out.
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Harpo gets married to Sofia and they have a child. Harpo doesn't like how Sofia doesn't obey him, so he tries to gain weight to beat her up.
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Shug comes home with Mr.. Shug and Mr. had a past relationship. Celie admires Shug.
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Dust Bowl- In areas were there was drought, hurricane like winds, and light soil: this destroyed agricultural land.
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Sofia leaves Harpo because she doesn't want to be controlled by him anymore. She also takes their children.
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Shug and Celie look through Mr.___ 's car trunk and find letters from Nettie that he has been trying to hide from Celie.Shug and Celie put them in chronological order and Celies reponds to them. Celie thinks that Nettie is dead.
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The jewish concentration camp, Auschwitz, opens.
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WWII starts because of an invasion in Poland by Hitler.
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Pearl Habor- Japan's fighter planes attack The American Navy base at Pearl Habor next to Hawaii.
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Baatan Death March- Japanese soldiers forced American and Philipino prisoners to march 63 miles
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Celie tells Mr.___ that her and Shug are moving to Tennesse because Celie is tired of being controlled.
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Celie learns how to sew pants. She opens up her own shop. She doesn't wear dresses anymore.
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Nettie is in Africa with two missionaries: Corrine and Samuel. Corrine suspects that Olivia and Adam are Nettie's children but they are Celie's. Corrine dies of a disease from Africa.
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Nettie marries Samuel and raises Olivia and Adam.
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Netties comes back home and is reunited with Celie and Celie's children.
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President Truman signs peace treaty with Japan to end WWII.
