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Assassination of the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie are assassinated -
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World War I
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Sinking of the Lucitania (Sister ship to the Titanic)
The Lucitania (Sister ship to the Titanic) sinks -
Russian Comunist Revolution Begins
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Passage of the Selective Service Act
The Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which gave the President the power to draft soldiers. -
Espionage Act passed by Congress
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War Industries Board Established
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Food Administration set up under Hoover
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Russia Withdraws from WWI
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Worldwide Flu Epidemic
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Woodrow Wilson presents Fourteen Points Peace Plan
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National War Labor Board Established by Woodrow Wilson
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Sedition Act passed by Congress
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Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies
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Armistice ends World War I
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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI
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Henry Ford opens assembly line to African American workers
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Prohibition era
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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Congress creates the SEC
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Hirohoto becomes emporer of Japan
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Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight
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Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight
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Herbert Hoover elected President
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Bank Failures begin
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Dust Bowl
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Japan invades northern China
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Japan conquers Manchuria
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Civilian Concervation Corps created
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Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany
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First Fireside Chat by FDR
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Hitler sets up Dachau
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Germany invades Poland Britan and France Declare War
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Works Progress Administration established
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Congress passes the Social Security Act
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FDR elected president (2nd time)
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Civil War in Spain begins
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Jesse Owens wins four Gold Medals at Olympics in Germany
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Attack on the Penay
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Naval Expansion Act
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Orson Welles broadcasts the WAR of the Worlds
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Kristallnacht (night of the falling glass)-Hitler destroys Jewish neighborhoods
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Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia
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Hitler and Stalin sign Non aggression Pact
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Germany invades Poland
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FDR elected president (3rd time)
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U.S. cracks Japanese code
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Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact
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Lend Lease Act put into law
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union
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US defends Iceland
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U.S.S. Kearny is damaged
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor- U.S. enters WWII
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Battle of Midway
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WWII War Production Board Created by Roosevelt
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Japanese Internment Camps begin
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Chuchill and Roosevelt Plan
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Itay surrenders
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FDR elected president (4th time)
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German General Rommell surrenders in North Africa
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Battle of the Bulge
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Seven Year Occupation of Japan by United States
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Yalta Conference
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Adolf Hitler commots suicide in Berlin
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Gremany surrenders
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V-E Day (Victory in Europe)
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Soviet Union enters Pacific War
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Tokyo petitions for peace
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V-J Day (Victory in Japan)
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Nuremburg War Trials
