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Americans slaughtered around 200 Lakota natives in search for land.
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A major financial crisis in the United States. Gold reserves of the government had fell from $190 million to $100 million in 1890.
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A massive crowd rush that killed 1,389 and left an estimated 20,000 injured. This started during the coronation of the last Tsar of Russia's festivities and news spread that there wasn't enough food for everyone during a famine.
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Fitzgerald is born in Saint Paul, Minnesota into a middle class family.
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The ford model T appears on the market and will forever change the world and transportation.
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The FBI is founded and becomes the domestic security and intelligence service for the U.S.
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Fitzgerald graduates from Newman and then proceeds to Princeton University.
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Called the great war back then, this was a war unlike any seen before as it involved most of the entire world fighting against each other an would change the world forever. The major powers were the central powers and the allied powers.
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The Panama canal is finished and allows ships and to go straight through Panama, revolutionizing trade.
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Fitzgerald is stationed in the 67th infantry regiment during WW1. He would become second lieutenant.
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The great war comes to an end with the central powers losing. This will lead to the world being changed and empires collapsing.
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After a reckless relationship, Fitzgerald finally decides to marry Zelda and sends her his mother's ring.
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Zelda is not convinced Fitzgerald is able to support her so she breaks off the engagement.
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Fitzgerald's creates a hit and 40,000 copies are sold in its first year.
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After Fitzgerald's large success and popularity, Zelda comes back to him and they marry, however Fitzgerald's feeling for her are at an all time low -
Benito Mussolini rises to power in Italy and create the first fascist government, creating a lot of problems for a lot of people.
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The Russian revolution concludes and the formation of the soviet union is formed with leaders like Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.
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Fitzgerald's most famous novel, the Great Gatsby is published and he becomes a household name in this era.
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The booming economy is suddenly ended by the worst recession ever seen. The wall street stock market crashes and leads into the Great Depression.
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Hitler rises to power and becomes a dictator. His goals are set on mass genocide of minority groups, especially Jewish people and world domination, causing world war 2.
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The second world war begins with the axis powers against the allied powers. This war is the deadliest in recorded history.
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Fitzgerald passes away due to a heart attack in Graham's apartment.
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After the suicide of Hitler in the invasion of Berlin and the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, the deadliest conflict the world has ever seen comes to an end.
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NATO, the massive alliance of nations for protection is established and still exists to this day.
https://www.nato.int