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Major Defence Allies
Allies were France, Britain, and Russia -
Period: to
WW1
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed
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Austria declares war on Serbia
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Germany declares war on Russia
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Schlieffen plan
Germany invades Belgium to get to Paris -
Marne
Allies stop German advance on Paris -
Gallipoli
Allied forces defeated in bid to establish a supply route to Russia -
Ypres
Germans use chemical weapons for first time -
Lusitania
German U boats sunk passenger ship killing 128 Americans -
Zimmerman Note
German foreign ministor wrote letter to German ambassador in mexico to start war with america. -
Verdun
French hold the line in the longest battle of the war -
Somme
Disastrous British offensive strike -
DEBATE
U.S. Debation of war against Germany -
paymaster robbed
two armed gunman robbed and killed paymaster and his guard -
league of nations established
in geniva by woodrow wilson -
Adolf Hitler organzied nazi party
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Ku Klux Klan recruitment
mass marketing, gained 85,000 members -
women gained right to vote
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first commercial radio broadcast
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the Cable Act is passed
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bessy ross records first album
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Migration bill excludes Japan
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Scopes tried for teaching evolution
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Charles Lindburg flew across Atlantic
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Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs
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Gertrude Ederle becomes the first women to swim across the English Channel.
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Walt Disney makes his first first Mickey Mouse cartoon
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The first color television experiments are performed by Alexander Grahm Bell.
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Period: to
1930s Great Depression
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finacal crash
stock market crashed and unemployment rises -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Shantytowns go up
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Soup Kitchens and Bread Lines
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Dust Bowl
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hoboes start looking for work
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Period: to
the 1940s
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Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs pearl habor -
War declared
U.S. declared war on japan -
Bataan Death March
75,000 troops forced to march 65 miles -
D Day
Us troops launched largest amphibious attack to date on Normandy Beach -
Paris is free
allied troops reach paris and free french forces -
hitler commits suicide
hitler kills himself in fear that he will be captured -
surrender of germany
germany surrenders to western allies -
surrender to soviets
germany surrenders to soviets -
Okinawa
US captures island of Okinawa -
Hiroshima
US drops bomb on Hiroshima -
Atomic Bomb
U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nakasoki -
Japan surrenders
Japan surrenders to US on unconditional surrender -
Period: to
The 1960's
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Bay Of Pigs
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first man on moon
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berlin wall built
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Tsar Bomba
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first man in space
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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Silent Spring
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Hot line
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JFK Assassinated
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I Have A Dream
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warren report issued
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US in Vietnam
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My Lai Massacre
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Tet Offensive
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Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
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Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
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Period: to
1970s timeline
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Kent State Shooting
National Guard opened fire on a crowd of rioting college students -
44 day raid into Laos
ARVN began a raid into Laos supported by American Air support and Artillery -
26th Amendment
lowers voting age from 21 to 18 -
North Vietnam Launches large attack
largest attack by NV in whole war -
Watergate Incident
President Nixon tells his people to go into watergate and get information on the republicans that they can use against them -
Nixon Resigns
Nixon resigns from office before he is impeached -
Fall of Saigon
Communist forces closed in on saigon and forced the unconditional surrender of saigon. Now Ho Chi Minh City -
Draft Evaders
10,000 draft evaders are pardoned by president Jimmy Carter
