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WWI
the germans sunk the britsh steam boat falaba
greman submarine sinks Lusitania
germany sinks the Arabic, another British liner, killing two americans -
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WWII
Spanish Civil war
Japanese pilots bomb and sink American gunboat USS Panay
1939 Germany annexes Czechoslovakia and invades poland
1939 Septeber first, WWII commences in Europe with Germany's invasion of Poland
1939 Declaration of Panama U.S. defenses
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelelt elected president for third term
1940 battle of Britain
1940 Destroyer-Base deal between U.S. and Britain
1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 US enters World War II
1944 Franklin D Roosevelt dies -
WWII
April 12, 1945 franklin d. roosevelt dies
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Germany surrenders; Japan surenders