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International conflict between the central powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey and the allies, France, Great Britain, etc. The war began after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. -
The Great influenza epidemic, or the Spanish flu, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide. -
The 19th Amendment guaranteed all American women's right to vote. -
The economy expanded rapidly between 1920 and 1929, but the stock market crashed in August of 1929. Production declined and unemployment rose. -
A conflict that was fought between the Axis (Germany, Japan, and Italy) and the Allies (Great Britain, the US, and the Soviet Union). This war began after Germany invaded Poland and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. -
The United States detonated two nuclear bombs in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent US combat forces into battle in Vietnam. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was a baptist minister that led the civil rights movement. He led nonviolent protests to fight segregation and achieve civil rights advancements for African Americans. He was assassinated in Memphis, TN on April 04, 1968. -
On November 9th, 1989 the communist party announced a change in the East's relations with the West. -
On December 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives due to perjury and obstruction of justice.