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This cases ruled seperate but equal.
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The US joined France, Britian, and Russian in WWI.
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The 18th amendment made alcohol illegal in America. The 21st amendment made it legal again.
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Women get the right to vote.
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After WWI, the economy was great, increasing America's standard of living.
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The stock market tanked, investors lost money that was building up for years.
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Adolph Hitler was voted as the German Chansler.
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Germany and the Axis Powers fought against the Allies (U.S., Britian, and France). Germany started it by invading Poland and eventually most of Europe.
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Japan attacked a U.S. naval bases. This event is what got us into WWII.
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150,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of northern France. It was, and still is, the largest landing by sea in history.
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America dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. This was a warning to them to surrender but they didn't.
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America dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. This forced them to surrender.
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Major Nazi leaders were trial for the atrocities of was they commited, many of them were put to death.
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After WWII all the Jews traveled to their Holy Land, forced out the Palistinians, and formed their own country.
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Communist N. Korea invaded S. Korea. UN toops (mostly Americans) were sent over as a police action. Communist China helped N. Korea.
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Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional.
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In this time blacks, minorities, and women obtain rights through protesting and sometimes violence.
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America bought Alaska from Russia.
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America took over Hawaii and made it a state.
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The Soviet Union shot down the U2 Spy Plane. The U.S. had to admit that the pupose of it was to spy on The Soviet Union.
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John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in his convertable. Lee Harvey Oswald was found to be the assassin, but was shot before his trial.
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When two U.S. ships were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin, America started the war against North Vietnam.The North Vietnam Army and the Vietcongs were fighting for Communism. The United States used search and destroy missions to protect the South.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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NASA landed Neil Armstrong on the moon, he was the first person to do so.
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in search of a warm water port.
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The Soviet Union finally withdraws its troops from Afghanistan.
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U.S. troops eraticated Saddam Hussien's troops from Kuwait.
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Al-Qaeda members flew commercial planes into the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and in a field in Shsnksville. Nearly 3,000 civilians and rescue personel died.
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American troops entered Iraq in search of nucreal weapons.
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The last U.S toops left Iraq.