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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight
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Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers
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WWI (labeled as a time period)
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Russia withdraws from WW1
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Sinking of the Lusitina
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passage of the Selective Service Act
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Espionage and Sediton acts passed by Congress
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War Industries Board established to regulate production in WW1
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Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover
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Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan
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Russian Communist Revolution begins
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National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson
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Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies
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Armistice ends World War 1
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Signing of the Treaty of Versallies establishing the peace at the end of WW1
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Assasination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand anf his wife Sophie
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Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
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Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight
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The Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"
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Diesel engine automobile completed
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Edwin Justus Mayers " Children of the Darkness" permiers in NYC
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NHL's Boston Bruins win
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"Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
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Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
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Bank failure begins
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Boulder Dam Project begins
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Boulder Dam Project begins
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Hoover disbands the Bonus Army
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Hitler comes to power in Germany
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Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition
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Congress creates the SEC
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Congress passes the Social Secuirty Act
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Civil War in Spain
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Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass)-Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods
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WWII
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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Dust Bowl
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WWII (ends)
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Herbert Hoover elected President
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