Medical advances- safer blood transfusions, new medicines, and improved anesthesia are pioneered and are vital during World war 2
Extreme weather conditions brought diseases to the small quantity of crops that could be raised.
Amelia Earhart becomes the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Germany, Japan, and Italy withdraw from the league of Nations
CBS new chief, Edward R. Murrow coordinates radio broadcast from several European cities to keep urban and rural Americans informed of the coming crisis on the continent.
Olympics in Berlin, a black Alabama native educated at Ohio State University, Jesse Owens, wins four gold medal. He breaks Olympic and world records, but German dictator, Adolf Hitler, refuses to recognize the American's achievements.
Hitler marches into Austria
Germany invades Poland
Great Britain declares war on Germany
Soon all of Europe is fighting
The first commercial air flight crosses the Atlantic Ocean and the helicopter is invented.
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World War 2
Battle of Britain
The U.S. enters the war
FDR supplies Britain and the allies with guns and material
Attack of Pearl Harbor
Anne Frank goes into hiding
Soviet Satellite "sputnik"
Germans Surrender
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Cold War
First nonstop flight
World war 2 delays the development of television until the 1950's
