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First submarined owned by the united states
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First Successfull heavier-than-air aircraft flight
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WWI
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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Russia Communist Revolutions Begins
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Passage of the Selective Service Act
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Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover
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Worlwide flu epidemic kills 30 million
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Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan
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Austria-Hungary Surrenders to the Allies
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Armistice ends WWI
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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI
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Passage of Prohibition and end of Prohibition
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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
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Charles Lindbergh makes his first nonstop transatlantic flight
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the Stock market crash "Black Tuesday"
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Dust Bowl
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Bank failures begin
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Boulder Dam Project begins
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Hoover disbands the Bonus Army
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Japan conquers Manchuria
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Amelia Earhart crosses the atlantic
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FDR Elected President
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Hitler sets up Dachau
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Hitler comes to power in Germany
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First Fireside chat
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Civial Conservation Corps.
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Congress creates the SEC
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Works Progress Administration established
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Congress passes the Social Security act
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Jesse Owens wins four Gold medals at Olympics in Germany
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FDR re elected as President
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Japan invades Northern China
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Civil War
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Orson Wells broadcasts the War Of The Worlds
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Kristallnacht
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Germany invades Poland
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Britain and France declare War
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Hitler invades Soviet Union
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FDR is re elected as President
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WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt
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Japanize internment camps begin
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German General Rommel surrenders in North Africa
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Battle of the Bulge
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Yalta conference
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Seven year occupation of Japan
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