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heir to the austrian thron, visted the bosnian capital sarajevo.
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this plan called for a holding of russia, combined with a quick drive through belgium to paris; after french had fallen, the two german armies would defeat russia.
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off the southern cost of ireland. one of the worst desasters.
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germany broke it promise and torpedoedan unarmed french passenger steamer. the sussex sank and about 80 passengers including americans were killed or injured.
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this bloody trench warefare, in which armies fought for mere yards of ground, continued for over three years.
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the democrats renominated wilson, and the republicans nominated supreme court justice charles evans hughes.
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for 15 hours the were debating president wilsons request for a declaration of war against gremany.
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this act required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military services.
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under the espionage and sedition act a person could be fined up to 10000 and senteced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive
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the points were divided into 3 groups.
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fourth, the government took over commercial and private ships and converted them gor transatlantic war use
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25 armed only with a rifle and a revolver. killed 25 germans and with 6 other doughboys capured 132 prisoners.
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that same day, greman sailors mutinied against government authority.
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gathered in the hall of mirrors of the palace of versailles to sign the peace treaty.
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delivered 34 speeches in about 3 week, explaining why the us should join the league of nations
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this amendment launched the era known as prohibition;banning the manufacture sale and transportation of alcohol
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reports that more Americans live in urban areas than in rural areas.
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passed; gave women the right to vote
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margaret sanger opened the first birth control clinic in 1916; fought for the legal rights of physicans to give birth control information
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arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in south braintree
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established the maximum number of people who could enter the us from each foreign country
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Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
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raised taxes on some us imports to 60%; highest level ever
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Congress passes the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, sharply raising tariff duties to protect the American market for American manufactures.
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Germany, burdened by reparations payments imposed by Treaty of Versailles, suffers hyperinflation. One American dollar is now worth 7,000 German marks.
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fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in american society
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made the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight
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first underwater tunnel designed specifically for motor vehicles
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people sitting on a flagpole for as long s they can
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start of a stock market crash begins
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france had fallen and britian was under siege
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hitler launched a surprise invation ofdenmark and norway
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william and the rest of the world watched hitler handed french officers his terms of surrender
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shot down over 185 german planes
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americans were jolted by the news that gremany, italy, and japan had signed a mutual defense treaty, the tripartite pace; 3 nations
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the first chelmno began operating before the meeting at wannsee
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isolationists argued bitterly against the plan, but most americans favored it, and congress passed it
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hitler broke agreement he made in 1939 with stalin not to go to war and invade the soviet union
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granted the navy permission for us warship to attack german uboat in self defense; prestident roosevelt
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tojo ordered the japanese navy to prepare for an attack on the united states
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roosevelt recieved a decoded messsage that instructed japans peace envoy to reject all american peace propoosals.
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prime minister churchill arrived at the white house and spent the next 3 weeks working out war plans with the president and his advisors
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american newspapers reported the end of automobile production for private use
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soviet army had stormed berlin
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representatives of 50 nations met in san francisco to establish this new peace keeping body
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During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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In his bunker while hiding from the Soviets, him and his wife both committed suicide. Hitler took a gunshot to his head and his wife drank poison.
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george f kennan and american diplomat in moscow that proposed a policy of containment
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truman asked congress for a 400 million in economic and military aid for turkey and greece; declared that " it must be the policy of the us to support free peoples whop are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure "
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The instant camera is a type of camera with self-developing film. The best known are those formerly made by Polaroid Corporation.The invention of modern instant cameras is generally credited to American scientist Edwin Land, who unveiled the first commercial instant camera, the Land Camera, in 1947, 10 years after founding Polaroid Corporation.
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secretary of state; proposed that the us provided aid to all european nations that needed it
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of about 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in Palestine.
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the widely accepted theory of the creation of the universe is the Big Bang Theory. George Gamow proposed that the universe was created in a gigantic explosion of the primeval atom and that the various elements observed today were produced within the first few minutes after the big bang. At that time, the temperature that ranged somewhere near 10 billion degrees helped fuse subatomic particles into what we now know of as the chemical elements.
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Gandhi's violent death came just months after the realization of his long sought-after goal - the independence of India from Great Britain.
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First round-the-world nonstop flight.
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ten western europe nations; belgium, denmark, france, great britain, iceland, italy, luxembourg, netherlands, norway, and portugal joined with the us and canada to form a defensive military alliance
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The stadium for this world cup was the worlds biggest football stadium, the Maracana. Thirteen teams attended, twentey two matches were played, and eighty eight goals were scored.
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North Korea Communist forces invade South Korea. U.N. called for cease-fire, and asks U.N. members to assist South Korea. U.S. troops are ordered into Korea by Truman
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Limited the president of the United States to a maximum of 2 terms in office
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The first color t.v. show premired in the cities of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C. Although the comercial aired in color few could watch it because they had black and white t.v. sets.
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Singin' in the Rain is an MGM film that is an autobiography of Hollywood. Most people say that the original version isn't as popular as the newer version. Others say that both movies are "Hollywood's Greatest Film!"
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This was the first olympics where women could enter and compete for the first time. This was also the first year a commemorative coin was made for the games. Events include: Gymnastics, Athleics, Basketball, Boxing, Flatwater Conoeing/kayaking, Cycling Track/Road, Diving, Fencing, Football (soccer), Hockey, Pentathlon, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Weightlifting, and Wrestling.
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The hydrogen bomb is 1,000 times more powerful than anyother bomb at the time. The bomb speed up the nuclear arms race. The bomb was set off following the soviet detonation of atomic device.
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From December 5 through December 9, a thick fog engulfed London. It mixed with black smoke emitted from homes and factories to createa deadly smog that killed about 12,000 people.
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Bermuda shorts were started by British military officers who cut off the bottom of their uniforms because they got hot. When the British came to Bermuda, Bermudians started this as a local fashion. Then when the British came to America, this became a style for Americans and we named them the Bermuda short.
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The first time color television ever came out it was on CBS where 16 major stars performed. On the day of the first broadcast, only about 1,000 Americans had a color television. CBS invited small groups of people to go watch the first broadcast in different studios.
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The first organ transplant was preformed at Peter Brent Brigham Hostpital. The transplant was of a kidney and preformed on a se of twins. The surgen that operated on the twins was Joseph Maurray.
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Blacks and whites were legally forced to use seperate train cars, drinking fountains, schools, and more. In the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board of education, Supreme Court overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision by ruling that segregation was "inherently unequal".
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He began attracting attention for his music in 1954 and his first number one hit was "Heartbreak Hotel". He was drafted to the military in 1958.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks got arrested and fined for breaking segregation laws. This action by Rosa Parks led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was also considered the beginning of the Modern Civil Rights movement
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The first polio vaccine was created by Jonas Salk. the vaccine saved hundreds of lives and was the biggest medical andveancement of the decade. The first vaccine's were givin at Arsenal elementry in Pittsburgh Pensylvania.
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Barbie dolls, introduced by Mattel in 1959, became a huge success in the sixties
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Aretha Franklin is the undisputed “Queen of Soul” and the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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NASA sent up ECHO, the first communications satellite to be seen with the naked eye.
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During the 1960's the US partook in the Olympics in Rome. The US was strongest in track and field that year.
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In 1962, the Ford Galaxie was new model introducing similar body lines to the previous 1961 model with new trim and ornamentation design as well as a distinctive new grill. This car featured stunning gold and chrome plated fender top ornaments.
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John Glenn was the first man to orbit the Earth, three times. It took approximately 5 hours.
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On August 5, 1962, America's Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose of pills.
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John Steinbeck is announced as the 1962 recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature.
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On November 22, 1963, John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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In a period of 16 hours, 148 twisters touched down in 13 states (Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia), killing 330 people and injuring 5,484 in a path covering 2,500 miles
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Black Leader Malcolm X was murdered at a party meeting. Malcolm was a member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association which later got into trouble with the Ku Klux Klan.
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Twiggy was one of the most successful supermodels in the US. Twiggy came from England in the 1960's to model. She now partakes in many tv shows such as "America's Next Top Model" and "The Nanny."
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After playing at the Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix became a well-known artist and a succesful guitarist.
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South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard conducted the first heart transplant on 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky
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Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated while standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennesse. Martin Luther King Junioer was killed by James Earl Ray.
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The Beatles were active from their formation in 1960 to the disintegration of the group in 1970.All four band members had begun working on solo projects by 1970 which lead to their breakup.Paul McCartney made the break-up public.
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Members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students
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Amtrak is a mix of the words America and track.President Richard Nixon created Amtrak. It is a government owned corporation to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States.
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10,000 visitors went to disneyland at its grand opening.It was 107 acres, and it featured attractions such as Adventureland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, and Tomorrowland
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Watergate scandal is how Nixon told some of his top white house officials to go and plant bugs to get dirt on his democratic competerors
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Sears Tower is 1,454 feet tall, and even taller (1707 ft.) when you include its twin antennas, that are each over two hundred feet tall. The Sears Tower is a massive 110 stories tall. The Sears Tower is located on Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois.
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His term was from January 20 , 1969 - August 9, 1974. He served 2 Terms and Resigned during second term because of the Watergate cover-up.
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Established to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It was founded by Bill Gates, Paul Allen and it was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Spanish general, dictator and the leader of the Nationalist military rebellion in the Spanish Civil War, and totalitarian head of state of Spain; died of Parkinson's disease.
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Apple was established by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
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American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. It earned over $1,788,879,251 worldwide. The movie is about a the future and a boy saving his sister from Darth Vader.
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t was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City.The aftermath of the black out resulted in looting and other disorder, including arson. The cause of this blackout was because of a lightining strike at Buchanan South.
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909 Americans were led to their death by the Rev. In the South American jungle upon the orders of Rev. Jim Jones, who had tried to create a socialist paradise that survivors called a slave camp
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the winner at the Grammys that won song of the year was Billy Joel. His winning was was, Just the Way You Are. The song was written by Billy Joel himself. The song was first released on September 1977 and the lenth of the song is 3:36.
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The walkman is a sony product and it was originally used for portable audio cassette players.
