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Assassination of Ferdinand
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Lusitania sunk by German U-boats
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Carl Sandburg publishes Chicago Poems
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USA enters WW1
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Woodrow Wilson announces 14 points
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Prohibition becomes a law
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US gives women right to vote
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T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land
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F. Scott Fitzgerlad publishes The Great Gatsby
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Earnest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
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Langston Hughes publishes The Weary Blues
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The stock market crashes
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Roosevelt closes banks; congress passes the New Deal laws
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Prohibition repealed
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John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath
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The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind appear in theaters
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and US enters WW2
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Roosevelt reelected as president for a fourth term
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D-Day
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US Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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WW2 ends
