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President Wilson gets into office after being elected in1912
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tensions in europe explode into war after Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated
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Germany goes under cease fire but technically WWI does not end for another 7 months
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Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles official ending WWI
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Mussolini becoming Prime Minister started the fascist trend
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Warren G. Harding died while in office and was succeded by Coolidge
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Fascists win elections with 2/3 of the majority
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Benito Mussolini declares dictatorail power over Italy
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Assassination attempt against Mussolini fails
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A bomb attack against Benito Mussolini failed to kill Mussolini but successful in killing 17 bystanders
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The world wide stock market crash
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of germany
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Adolf Hitler becomes Furher of Germany as well as Chancellor
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Adolf Hitler declares German rearmament which violated the Versailles Treaty
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Nazi Germany reoccupies Rhineland against the Treaty of Versailles
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Neville Chamberlain goes to Berchtesgaden to negotiate with Hitler over Sutenland
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Germany invaded Poland which went against the Versailles Treaty
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Brenner Pass to agree to an alliance against France and the United Kingdom
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Japanese forces bomb Pearl Harbor in hawaii
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After Pearl Harobor was bombed by the Japanese, the US official declares war
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Nazis at Wannsee Conference in Berlin discuss the solution to the "Jewish Problem" is relocation and later extermination
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The Warsaw ghetto, where jews were being held, begins an uprising
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Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps
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After being captured Benito Mussolini is executed in Giulino, Itlay
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Adolf Hitler commited suicide after realizing the war was against him and did not want to share Mussolini's fate
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All axis powers had surrendered
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The United Nations meet for the first time in London
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Communist take power in Poland
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Britain could no longer help Greece financially or military wise to over throw the Communist powers which were becoming stronger
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The Republic of Korea is established
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The last of the US troops finally withdraw form South Korea
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Klaus Fuchs , German emigre and physicist confesses to being a Soviet Spy for 7 years in which he had passed US and British nuclear information to the Soviet Union
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West Germany has 8 million refugees within its borders
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Soviet Union leader dies of what they thought was a stroke but later evidence suggests poison
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Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam to be a republic with himself as its president
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West Germany bans the Communist party of Germany
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Governer Orville Faubus of Arkansas has the National Guard prevent Black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock
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12 countries including the US and Soviet Union which sets aside Antartica as Scientific preserve and disallows military activity
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President Eisenhower signs civil rights act of 1960 into law
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Churchill suffered a stroke which killed him in the end
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Malcom X, the Black Muslim advocate is assassinated
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In a LA court Sirhan Sirhan admits to assassinating the presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy
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US involvement in Vietnam war ends with the signing of Paris Peace Accords
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Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter in Japan to request political asylum from the US
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Representatives from US and the Soviet Union met in Geneva to negotiate reducing intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe ( negotiations were inconclusive)
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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
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The leader of Japan during WWII dies
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The end of the cold war came along with the collapse of the Soviet Union
