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Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African Americans
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Assasination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
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WWI
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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The Batte of Verdun begins
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Russia withdraws from WWI
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Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover
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Russian Communist Revolution begins
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Passage of the Selective Service Act
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First Pulitzer prizes are awarded
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Espionage and Sedition acts passed by Congress
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War Industries Board established to regulate productin in WWI
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Worldwide flu epidemic kills 30 million
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Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan
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National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson
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Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies
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Armistic ends World War I
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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
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Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition
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Irish Independence
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Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy
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Mussolini's March on Rome
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Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
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Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight
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Discovery of Penicilin
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Herbert Hoover elected president
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Bank failures begin
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Stock Market crashes-Black Tuesday
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Dust Bowl
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Boulder Dam Project begins
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Japan invades Northern China
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Japan conquers Manchuria
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Hoover disbands the Bonus Army
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FDR elected President 1
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Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Hitler sets up Dachau
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Civilian Conservation Corps Starts
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Hitler comes to power in Germany 1
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Congress creates the SEC
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Hitler becomes Fuhrer
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The Long March
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Works Progress Administration established
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Congress passes the Social Security Act
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FDR elected President 2
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Civil War in Spain
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Jesse Owens wins four gold medals
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Hindenburg Disaster
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Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds
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Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact
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Germany invades Poland
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Germany invades Poland, Britian, and France declare War
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FDR elected President 3
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Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact
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Lend Lease Act
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Civilian Conservation Corps ends
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WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt
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German General Rommel Surrenders in North Africa
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Japanese Internment Camps begin
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Bataan Death March
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Battle of Midway
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Operation Husky
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FDR elected President 4
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D-Day Invasion
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Battle of the Bulge
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Iwo Jima
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Seven year Occupation of Japan by the United States
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Yalta Conference
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Hitler found dead
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V-E Day and V-J Day
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Nuremburg War Trials
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