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Ferdinand Assassinated
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Germany invaded Belgium
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Lusitania Sunk
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The Great War Began
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The Battle of Somme
60,000 casualties on the first day -
U.S. Presidential Election
Wilson won the election -
America Acts
Senators,representatives, ambassadors,memebers of Supreme , and other guest crowded into the capital building to hear the President Wilsion deliver his war resolution -
Selective Acts Service
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Russia Withdraws From War
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Worldwide Influenza
Kills over 30 million people -
19 Admendment
Gives Women the Right to Vote -
Sacco and Vanzetti are Convicted
were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company, committed April 15, 1920, in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States, and were executed by electrocution seven years later at Charlestown State Prison. Both adhered to an anarchist movement that advocated relentless warfare against the government -
King Tut's tomb
kings tomb was discovered in egypt -
Louis Armstrong Plays For King Oliver
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Calvin Coolidge is Elected for President
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Scopes Trial
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Hirohito becomes emperor
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Charles Lindbergh flies
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Henry Ford Introduces the model A
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State of Israel is created
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Herbert Hoover
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Hitler is appointed German chancellor
He began immediately, ordering a rapid expansion of the state police, the Gestapo, and putting Hermann Goering in charge of a new security force, composed entirely of Nazis and dedicated to stamping out whatever opposition to his party might arise. From that moment on, Nazi Germany was off and running, and there was little Hindenburg or von Papen—or anyone—could do to stop it. -
German troops marched into Austria unopposed
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Signed the Munich Agreement
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union
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A. Philip Randolph demands that war industries hire African Americans
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
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roosevelt created the war production board to coordinate mobilization
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in the pacific the battle of midway turns the tide in favor of the allies
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Nazis develop the final solution for exterminating the jews
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japanese americans are sent to relocation centers
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rommel's forces surrender in north africa
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Zoot-suit riots rock los angeles
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Nazi retreat begins after the battle of the bulge
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Churchill gives his Iron Curtain speech
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United States joins NATO
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Berlin airlift begins
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China Becomes Communist
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United Nation is Established
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Korean War begins
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US sends troops to Korea
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U.S. Explodes first hydrogen bomb
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed as spies
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John F. Kennedy is elected president
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the earth
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U.S. and USSR face off in the Cuban missile crisis
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President Kennedy is assassinated
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Lyndon johnson becomes president
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Congress passes the Economic Opportunity Act and Civil Rights Act
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lyndon johnson is elected president
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u.s troops enter vietnam
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Richard M Nixon is Elected President
