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Someone from serbin shot him
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war has started
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germany first to use gas
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sunk by a germany u boat
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first battle
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germany first to make them
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they leave the war
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they been at it hundred days of offensive
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germany has to say they are done and pay money up
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war is over
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the second anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia
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The Palmer Raids begin, launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation.
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established
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The Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United States participation in the League of Nations.
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Charismatic black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, convenes the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York's Madison Square Garden.
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they got rights for voting
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first pro football
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Republican Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency by a landslide. Harding wins 60% of the popular vote and 75% of the electoral vote; Democrat James Cox wins only a handful of states in the South.
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Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States. Targeted at "undesirable" immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europen
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The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins; immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed.
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Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9
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Luxembourg is occupied on May 10; the Netherlands surrenders on May 14; and Belgium surrenders on May 28. On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline.
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Italy invades southern France on June 21.
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invade the Soviet Union. Finland, seeking redress for the territorial losses in the armistice concluding the Winter War, joins the Axis just before the invasion.
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they are very sneaky
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Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and British Singapore. By April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore are under Japanese occupation.
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bringing the war home to Germany for the first time. Over the next three years Anglo-American bombing reduces urban Germany to rubble.
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breaking through the Hungarian and Romanian lines northwest and southwest of Stalingrad and trapping the German Sixth Army in the city.
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the last island stop before the Japanese islands.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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between Communist and Nationalist forces.
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a document which listed Soviet violations of agreements with the United States.
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starting with the giving of aid to Greece and Turkey in order to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere
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in Czechoslovakia, after President Edvard Beneš accepts the resignation of all non-communist ministers.
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By the end of the programs, the United States has given $12.4 billion in economic assistance to European countries
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in an attempt to starve out the French, British, and American forces from the city. In response, the three Western powers launch the Berlin Airlift to supply the citizens of Berlin by air.
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becomes President of the United States.
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children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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inaugurated for his second term in office.
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49th state to be followed on August 21 by Hawaii.
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North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter, protesting their denial of service. This action caused a national campaign, waged by seventy-thousand students, both white and black, over the next eight months, in sit-ins across the nation for Civil Rights.
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invasion of Cuba is repulsed by Cuban forces in an attempt by Cuban exiles under the direction of the United States government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro.
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by the Soviet bloc, segregating the German city, previously held in four sectors by Allied forces, including the United States. The wall would last for twenty-eight years.
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President Kennedy admits that the military advisors already in Vietnam would engage the enemy if fired upon.
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In response to the Soviet Union building offensive missiles in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade of military equipment to the island. An agreement is eventually reached with Soviet Premier Khrushchev on the removal of the missiles, ending the potential conflict after thirty-eight days, in what many think was the closest the Cold War came to breaking into armed conflict.
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the island prison in San Francisco Bay, are ordered removed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and the federal penitentiary is closed.
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Panamanian mobs engage United States troops, leading to the death of twenty-one Panama citizens and four U.S. troops.
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Johnson extended the Democratic victory by former running mate John F. Kennedy with a 486 to 52 thrashing of the Republican candidate in the Electoral College and over 15 million surplus in the popular vote.
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the government medical program for citizens over the age of 65, begins.
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into force by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, to take effect on October 10, 1967.
