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A emeber of the "Black Hand" assassinats Archduke Franz Ferdinand the heir to the Austrian throne
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Germany declared war on Russia
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Germany invades Belgium, leading them to paris, and Germans say after France fell the German armies would attack Russia
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Allies stop German advance on Paris
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The first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place
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Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles
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Allied troops landed in Gallipoli
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A German U-boat sank the British boat Lusitania which killed 1,198 people of which 128 were american
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Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
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The battle of Verdun begins
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British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia
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Start of the Brusilov Offensive
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Armies fought in dug out trenches and brought casualties to 1.2 million and this warfare continued for 3 years
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Woodrow Wilson is elected president of The United States
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Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister
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A telegram from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents
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President Wilson told the senators, represenatives, ambassadors,members of the surpreme court, and other guests that the U.S will help fight
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USA declared war on Germany
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Congress passed the Selective Servise Act so that men would be radomly drafted into the war
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the Italian Army was heavily defeated
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British tanks won a victory at Cambrai
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Armistice between Germany and Russia signed
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Marshall Foch was appointed Allied Commander on the Western Front
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Turkey made peace
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Austria made peace
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Germany agreed to sign the armistice that ended the war
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Peace conference met at Paris
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The surrendered German naval fleet at Scapa Flow was scuttled.
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Germans.
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when palmer, Hoover, and their agents hunted down suspected communists, scoialists, and anarchists
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a communist party rose in the US
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Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested for the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster
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policemen decided to strike after they hadn't gotten their raise
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workers wanted shorter working hours and a living wage
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the greatest naval powers decided to not create battleships for 10 years
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a quota system saying the amount of immigrants that could enter the US
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federal aid road act funds a national highway system
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chinese communist party is found in Shanghai
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Benito mussolini is appointed prime minister of Italy
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the preidents poker playing cronies
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germany had an economis crisis
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Time magazine begins publication
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president Harding died and Calvin Coolidge becomes president
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president harding dies
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Lenin the founder o the soviet union died
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the ku klux klan membership reached 405 million
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A. philip randolph organizes the brotherhood of sleeping car porters
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capone took control of the illegal liquor business
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Hirohito bcomes emperor of japan
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the scopes trial takes place in tennessee
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charles lindbergh makes the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight
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henry ford introduces the model A.
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president alvaro obregon of mexico is assassinated
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Hoover was elected president in 1928
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82,000 african americans held union membership in 1929
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first academy awards are presented
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National revolutionary party is organized in mexico
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the stock market crashes
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army officers took control of the government in argentina
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more than 40 percent of the nations banks fail
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jane addams shares the nobel peace prize
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japan invades manchuria
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the bonus army arrives in washington DC
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roosevelt is elected president of the US
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adolf hitler takes power in germany
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japn withdraws from the league of nations
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more then 13 million americans are unemployed