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Steel Strike Ends
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Roaring '20's
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Warren G. Harding is elected president
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Louis Armstrong plays for King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chacago
In 1918, Joe "King" Oliver and Creole Jazz Band traveled north to Chicago, carrying jazz with them. In 1922, a young trumpet player named Louis Armstrong joined Oliver's group, which became known as the Creole Jazz Band. His talent rocked him to stardom in the jazz world. -
Tennessee passed the nation's first law that made it a crime to teach evolution.
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Black Tuesday
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Great Depression
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
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Hoover signs the Federal Home Loan Bank Act
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Dust Bowl
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Congress passes the Social Security Act
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Germany takes over Czechoslovakia
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World War II
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Poland, Britain, and France declared war on Germany
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Roosevelt is elected to a thrid term.
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United States enters World War II
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Pearl Harbor
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The Cold War
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Harry S. Truman is elected President
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U.S. Sends troops to Korea
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John F. Kennedy is elected President
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Berlin War
In 1961, the Berlin Wall was built to prevent the East Germans from fleeing from communism. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
A 14 day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other.
