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Galveston hurricane
A category 4 hit the coast of galveston killing an estamated 6,000-8,000 people. The U.S. weather beau sent out warning but, were ignored my most citzens and tourest. the cities hightest point in only 9ft above sea level and a 15ft storm surge hit the city. -
spindletop
Pennsylvania was leading in oil production in the U.S. until they sturck oil on spindletop. The discovery put Texas as the highest producer producing 100,000 barrels a day. Soon the U.S. became the leading oil producer at the time. -
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WWI
WWI started because a serbian terriost assanated Sophie and Franz Ferdinand the future heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary then declared war on serbia. -
the wall street crash of 1929 was known as black tuesday it lead
Known as black tuesday it lead the united states in the great depression. the money peole had invest in busseness was worth noting now. people lost there money and busseness got closed down. -
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the dust bowl
the dust bowl or the dirty thirtie was a time of severe dorught and over farming so, there was noting to keep the dirt dwn so when the wind came it pick up small pieces of dirt and creating huge storm. these storms created major problems for the plains people. -
Start of WWII
World war two started when germany unprovokly attack poland. on sempetber 3rd the prime minister of Britain dlecared war on germany. the world was a battle ground countries split up
Axis powers: Germany, ITALY Japan, hungary romania and bulagara
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attack on pearl habor
before 8 am on 12-7-1941 100's of japaenes fighter planes attacked the american base pearl habor near honilulu hawaii. the attack last about 2 hours distroying 2o naval vessles 300 aiplanes 2000 were killed and 1000 wounded. this event forced the united states into the war -
end of ww2
The war ended because the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on japan the firt they were tod to surrender and we dropped another one. they didnt surrender so we dropped a second killing 1000's so they were forced to t surrender. the allied power defeated the axises powers. The second world war lifted us out of the great depression.
