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1910-1970
+/- 6 million african Americans moved from the rural south to the cities in the north -
1914-1921
introduced the horrors of trench warfare and lethal new technologies such as poison gas and tanks
began with the assassination of Austrian Archduke F Ferdinand -
Germain u-boat torpedoed and sent the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en rout from NY to Liverpool
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Prohibited obtaining information of any stuff relating to the national defense -
Janette ranking was the first woman elected to Congress -
Congress passed an act wich authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription -
Made it a crime to convey information intended to interfere with the war effort -
Scandal surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall -
Founded by the brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as an animation studio, it became one of the largest studios in Hollywood.
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Japanese inventor Kenjiro Takayanagi demonstrated a TV system with a 40-line resolution that employed a CRT display. This was the first working example of a fully electronic television receiver. Takayanagi did not apply for a patent.
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first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era
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1st film starring Mickey Mouse to be released with synchronized sound, it threw silent animation into obsolescence and launched an empire
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worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world
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