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In February 1848, European political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write and publish a critique of capitalism. The basis for the industrial revolution in Europe and America was based on the economic theory of capitalism. However, Marx and Engels had observed injustices and inequities between the classes that owned factories and those who comprised the workforce.
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In September 1901, President William McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz, supposed anarchist. President McKinley died less than a week later from his wounds, leaving the Presidency to Theodore Roosevelt.
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In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Bosnian Serb group fighting to break up the control of the Austro-Hungarian of the south-Slavic territories in southern Europe. The death of the Ferdinand, the next throne to the empire, compelled Austro-Hungary to invade Serbia.
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In July 1914, shortly after the Austro-Hungarian empire invaded Serbia, the Central powers formed, including the Austria-Hungry, German, and Ottoman empires. The opposing forces were the Allied or Western force, including Great Britain, France, and Russia.
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In April 1917, despite many Americans who opposed entering a European conflict, over two-million American military troops joined the Allied Western forces in Europe.
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In November 1918, after years of trench and chemical warfare and over nine million lives lost, Germany finally surrenders to Western Forces. The official Treaty of Versailles peace agreement was signed in June 1918. However, the U.S. did not sign the agreement.
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In September 1919, the majority of the Boston police force went on strike. The general public condemned the strike as Bolshevik. Backed by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge, Police Commissioner Edwin Curtis refused to give into the striker’s demands and hired new policemen to take their place.
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In December 1919, Emma Goldman and 248 other “radicals” were deported to Russia under the authority of the 1918 Alien Act. Overseen by Justice Department officials such as J. Edgar Hoover, ensured the “Red Ark” departed from American shores.
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In July 1921, despite little evidence, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted of murder in the first degree for a robbery of a shoe factory in Boston in which two men were shot and killed.
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In 1922, after the Russian civil war concluded, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks were victorious, effectively establishing the Soviet Union.
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In August 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are put to death by the electric chair.
