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The assisnation of the Archduke and his wife by a serbian nationalist sparked WWI
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Germany invades Belgium to get to France and teh UNtied Kingdom declares war on them.
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Germany declares a war zone around Great Britian for a submarine blockade where they will shoot any ship in the war zone
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ONe of the bloodiest battles in WW1
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Germany sends a telegram that is intercepted by the British to Mexico to attack the United States.
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As a result of the Zimmerman note the U.S. declares
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Germany signs armistice in Compiegne,France and fighting ends on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11 month.
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The 18th amendment started prohibition
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Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchist that were accused of murder but were never proven guilty and still received the death penalty.
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The 19th amendment gave women the right ot vote.
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The 29th president of the United States Warren G Harding starts his presidency.
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President Warren G Harding dies of a heart attack unexpectedly
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set the quota of any nationality at 2% of the number of foreign people
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A teacher named John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in a public school and his attorney Clarence Darrow had argued with the other attorney William Jennings Bryan over evolution nd revivalism.
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International agreement to not start a war unless it was self-defense.
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The murder of six mobsters and a mechanic of the North Side Irish gang
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Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st president of the United States
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The first mcikey mouse comic was published in New York
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Warner Bros made their first cartoon
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Hitler was named into Chancellor of Germany.
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Dust storms start in 5 midwestern states.
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Became the first person to fly to Hawaii to California solo.
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The hoover damn is finished after 4 years of work.
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Roosevelt is inaugurated for the second time by a landslide.
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German airship explodes over Lakehurst,NJ carrying passengers.
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Orson Welle's air's war of worlds on cbs radio and people think it is actaully happening.
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The Nazi's army invade Denmark and Norway
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Germans invade Paris.
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FDR signs the Lend-Lease Bill to aid countries fighting axis powers.
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The Nazi army attacks the Soviet Union which is known as the Operation of Barbarossa
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14 Nazi leaders hold a meeting to dicuss the elimination of Jews.
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U.S. and British land to fight in French North Africa
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The Allied powers invade Sicily
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The Italians declare war on the Nazis
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The invasion of Normandy by the Allied powers on the Germans
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The Germans officialy surrender and is known as victory in europe day
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Civil rights congress was formed when the Labor Defense, the National Negro Congress, and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties merged.
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The Phillippines gain independence
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President Harry Truman announces the Truman Doctrine
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President raises taxes for the Marshall Plan
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President Truman signs Marshall Plan into effect.
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Truman sworn in for his second term
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Mao Zedong takes power of China
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Dwight Eisenhower was inaugerated president
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for giving U.S secrests to the Soviet Union.
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The first McDonald's restraunt was open
