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Gave squatters the right to buy up to 160 acres for $1.25 per acre before the land was offered for sale to others.
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The government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anoyone willing to live on the land for five yearss, dig a well, and build a road.
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The railroad was complete and was drivern through Utah signaling its completion.
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This is the year where one of the nation's most influential banks had failed. They over extended loans to the railroad system at the time which had caused them to go bankrupt.
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Congress passed this act to reverse the policy of backing money with gold and silver.
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California barred cities from employing people of Chinese ancestry
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died semptember 14th
McKinley was at the Pan-American Exposition in New York
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is the event that sparks World War I
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British gave Wilson the telegram which stated message from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann proposing that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States.
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Route 66 was fully paved in 1936
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Adolft Hitler lead the Nazis
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Took place in North Africa and lasted until May 13th 1943
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British turn the tide and win
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He is the Japanese naval admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the attack on Midway in 1942.
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Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
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The Cold War was when the United States and the Soviet Union went against eachother and resulted in mutual suspicions, heightened tensions and international incidents. This war is also known as Forgotten War.
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When they decided to split up Korea as a whole and create North Korea and South Korea. North Korea were the communists and South Korea were against communism.
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They split Korea because the Soviet Union occupied the northern half of the peninsula and the United States occupied the south, so it made sense to just spilt.
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The day of victory in Euorpe for the Allies in World War 2
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The day that Japan accepted the allied surrender terms in World War 2
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On this date Korea divided into North Korea and South Korea
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The armistice may have ended the war, but there was no offical peace treaty signed. Tensions still are high in both Koreas.
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Elvis Presley, who is still well known today, became famouse for his music. He was nicknamed the King of Rock n Roll. His music started showing up on the radio and television in the mid 1950s
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His presidency was short-lived because of all the Buddhists. No one would agree with things he wanted to do because he was Roman Catholic.
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Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated president JFk
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-Known as the strategic bombing campaign
-Occurred March 1965 to October 1968
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The American artillery from la Drang was consistant and the NVA learned this later on.
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Some 70,000 NVA and Viet Cong forces launched a series of attacks on more than 100 SVA cities.
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A company of American soldiers killed the majority of the SVA. After this higher-ranking American soldiers covered this story up for a yeaer without anyone knowing until 1970.
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Hill 937 was the hill where many deaths had occurred. There were over 400 American casualties on this hill because of the elevation of the hill and because of the NVA.
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3 day music festival that was a huge success mentally, but physically there was a huge amounts of money thrown away in the garbage.
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-Policed fired at a black college
-Non-Jackson state student set a dump truck on fire
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Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford took over presidency for Nixon.
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Almost 150,000 Iraq troops overran Kuwaiti forces.
Iraq invades Kuwait -
About 700,000 troops gathered in Saudi Arabia. This included about 500,000 United States troops.
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5 week plan of bombardment on Iraq. Iraq cam back withScud missiles and launched them.
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This begins a Civil War
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Won against president George H.W. Bush
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68 killed
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Massive NATO bombing forces
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Milosevic is ready
Agreed to Deomocratic elections- Bosnian Serb Republic and Muslim-Croat Federation
Agreed to two main portions- war criminals handed over for prosecution
