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Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
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The 18th Amendment, passed on January 16th 1919, made the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages illegal.
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The most important of the peace treaties that brought WWI to an end, signed on June 28th, 1919
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The 19th Amendment , ratified on August 9th, 1920 allowed women to vote.
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On October 29, 1929 16.4 million shares were sold off at a much lower price than they were bought.
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Starting in 1933, FDR created a number of programs to help the economy and people in poverty.
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On June 6, 1944 Allied forces invade Nazi-Captured France by crossing the English Channel and landing on Normandy Beach.
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On August 6, 1945 a B-29 bomber, "Enola Gay' dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The initial blast killed 70,000 people and the radiation left by the bomb killed another 100,000. Three days later the USA dropped another nuke nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki because Japan refused to surrender after the first bomb was dropped.
