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A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film
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The Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker
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It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to Austria-Hungary's throne, and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip while the couple were visiting Sarajevo.
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Austria-Hungary seeks German support for a war against Serbia in case of Russian militarism
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
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Germany warns Russia to stop mobilizing. Russia says mobilization is against Austria-Hungary only
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Germany declares war on Russia.
Italy declares its neutrality.
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Germany invades Luxembourg. Details
Skirmish at Joncherey, first military action on the Western Front -
Germany declares war on France. Belgium denies permission for German forces to pass through to the French border
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Germany besieges and captures fortified Longwy "the iron gate to Paris" near the Luxembourg border, opening France to mass German invasion
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George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons
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Woodrow Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points
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First meeting of the League of Nations held in London. Official end of World War I. Details
Free City of Danzig established -
make, distribute, or sell (illicit goods, especially liquor, computer software, or recordings) illegally
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fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
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Joshua "Josh" Gibson was an American Negro league baseball catcher
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The Dawes Plan was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany
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Japan invades Manchuria
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Ford introduces the Model B, the first low-priced car to have a V-8 engine
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The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans
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The Twentieth Amendment (Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3
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The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920
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Germany, under Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and the Soviet Union, under Communist dictator Joseph Stalin, sign the Nonaggression Pact, which secretly accepts Germany’s plan to invade Poland.
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Germany invades Poland in a blitzkrieg (lightning war).
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japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Almost at the same time, Japanese warplanes attack the Philippines and two U.S. islands: Wake and Guam, which are later occupied.
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On the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines, U.S. and Filipino troops, low on food and ammunition, surrender
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The U.S. Navy announces that, except for the U.S.S. Arizona, U.S.S. Utah, and U.S.S. Oklahoma, all warships sunk at Pearl Harbor have been repaired and returned to sea.
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US. Marines land on Japanese-held Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands
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U.S. Marines land on Saipan in the Northern Marianas Islands.
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U.S. troops in Germany begin a drive to reach the Rhine River.
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Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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the Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II
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A suburb is a residential area
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor
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blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music
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rTeaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATO
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First color TV
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite.
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United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
