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The war is caued due to assationation of the Austrian kings son by a Seribian man. War was declared a month later.
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The British ship Lusitanina was sunk by a German submarine that had 128 American citizens.
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The Battle of the Somme was a very important battle in WWI.
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The Zimmermann Telegram stated that if America joined the war, and Mexico joined the Gerrmans side, they would help get their land back FROM America. The telegram was discovered about a month later.
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America joins the war on the side of the Allies.
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Russia leaves the war due to an internal revoulution.
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Germany agrees to an armstice, or cease-fire.
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The stock market crash in New York is known as Black Tuesday. It is considered to be one of the causes of the Great Depression.
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The ten year drought and the dustbowl made farming hard.
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By 1932, one in four Americans were out of work.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected in the worst period of time in the Great Deppresion.
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The New Deal officially goes into action.
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The Social Security Act of 1935 provided money to the unemployed, and also provided old age benefits for the retired.
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At the start of WWII, America was pulled out of the Great Depression.
