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when the passenger ship the Lusitania was sunk under suspicion of carrying weapons, and thus further bringing america into ww 1.
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this is when the us intercepted a message from Germany to mexico proposing an alliance between the two countries to better fight the us if it were to join the war.
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after 8 years of being president woodrow Wilson health had cought up to him and he suffers a stoke that had him bedridden untill his death.
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ww1 clearly demonstrated how war can get out of control and after the war was over the league of nations was established so that in theory countries could solve disputes without going to war.
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after a lot of back and fourth with the government the women's right groups finally gets the 19th amendment passed giving all women the right to vote.
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the stock market is looking good and the us is looking more financially sound than ever and more and more people are getting more and more money.
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after the stock market was doing better than ever is crashes as an outcome of the great depression leaving thousands homeless or without a job.
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due to people fearing that they were gonna lose their money swarms of people come out to banks trying to get their money out the bank so they dont lose it.
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as a plan the deal with the great depression president hoover increases the tax on imported goods thus worsening the problem.
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the major event that actually helps america come out of the great depression since it gives tons of people jobs and boos employment.
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the attack on the US harbor that ultimately leads the us to join the war on the allied side.
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the battle that would take place after the us joins the war on the allied side between the us and japan and which would decide who would control the pacific theatre for the most part
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one of the deciding battles between the US and japan and where control over pacific theater would be decided.
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The allied attack on the coast of France to free them form German. The attack took place on the beach of Normandy and is considered one of the largest and most ambitious invasions in history.
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as germany is getting more on the defensive they decided to launch a counter attack on the western from and they manage to push the enemy back but they never broke their front.
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the attack in retaliation to the Japanese forces where the us dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
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the second and last city to be targeted by the us and the one that finally leads to japan coming out of the war.
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This essentially marks the beginning of the war as the northern part of Vietnam starts to engage with the lower half.
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This marks the beginning of a thirteen-day event that was one of the closest the us has ever come to all-out nuclear war. And this all started with nukes being found in Cuba leading to tension between the us Cuba and ussr.
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the incident that leads to America officially going to war with Vietnam after a intelligent gathering mission leads to a us ship getting attacked.
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Marks one of the worst things done by the us during the Vietnam war by the us were they attacked the city of my lai and killed mem, women, children and the elderly.
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this marks the first time in human history that we have put people on the moon and in the war non the less.
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After 19 long years the war finally ends with neither side having a decisive victory but with Vietnam suffering way more deaths.
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due to people wanting to flee wast Germany the government set up the berlin wall to keep to the "workers" in so that they had a population backing them in production.
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due to the quick fall of the german democratic republic lead to the country coming back together after years of separation.
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this marks the end if the division of the two Germanies and leading into the people not being locked behind the "iron curtain".
