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Henry Ford opens his assembly lines to African American workers
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Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
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Austria-Hungary Surrenders to the Allies
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The Sinking of the Lusitania
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Selective Service Act
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War Industries Board established to regulate production to WWI
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Food Administration set up under Herbert Hoover
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Russian Communist Revolution begins
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Worldwide Flu Epidemic kills 30 million
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Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan
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National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson
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Espionage and Sedition Acts passed by congress
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Armistice Ends World War I
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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI
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Hitler Comes to Power in Germany
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Kleenex was Invented
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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Anne Frank's birthday
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Japan invades Northern China
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Japan Conquered Manchuria
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FDR was Elected President for the First Time
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First Fireside Chat
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Hitler Sets Up Dachau
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Dust Bowl
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Congress Creates the SEC
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Elvis Presley's birthday
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Works Progress Administation
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Congress Passes the Social Security Act
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Civil War in Spain
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Jesse Owens Wins Four Gold Medals at the Olympics in Germany
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FDR Gets Elected Second Time
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The Hindenburg Disaster
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Agricultural Adjustment act
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Orson Wells broadcasts the War of the Worlds
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Kristallnacht - Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods
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Hitler and Stalin sign Non-Aggression Act
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Germany invades Poland
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Germany Invades Poland, France, and Britain to Declare War
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The German army invades the Netherlands
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Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the TRIPLARTITE pact
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FDR Gets Elected Third Time
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Lend Lease Act
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union
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Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
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WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt
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Japanese Interment Camp begins
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Battle of Midway
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German General Rommel Surrenders North Africa
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Congress passed the War Labor Disputes
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D-Day Invasion
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6 bomber crewmen were killed for each one wounded
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General Friedrich von Rabenau was arrested in the aftermath of the plot which culminated in the attempt on Hitler’s life
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FDR Elected the Fourth Time
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Battle of the Bulge
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Four of every five German soldiers killed in the war, died on the Eastern Front.
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Yalta Conference
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Iwo Jima
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VE Day and VJ Day
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Seven Year Occupation of Japan by the United States
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Nuremburg War Trials
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Anne Frank wrote in her famous diary, "When I write I can shake off all my cares. (...) But (...) will I ever be able to write something great?"
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