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An organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace
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The 19th amendment passed which gave women's rights and most importantly the right to vote
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An incident of secret leasing of federal oil reserves.
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A broad-based entertainment company is formed into a legal corporation.
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An american legal court case on the debate whether teaching evolution in schools should be allowed.
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Act passed that provides aid and assistance to the airline industry.
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Stock market crash and beginning of great depression.
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Law that ended prohibition, the banning of alcohol.
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The greatest hitter in baseball history retires from Major League Baseball.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor with japanese fighter planes and US declares war.
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American, British, and Canadian forces storm the beach in Normandy to fight off the Germans.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of intracerebral hemorrhage during his fourth term as president.
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President Truman gives the go ahead and launches nuclear missiles and bombs Hiroshima.
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Supreme Court rules that segregation in public school is unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat to a white man and is arrested. This is would lead to segregation on buses becoming unconstitutional.
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A region land left of Canada becomes part of the United States as a state.
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A cluster of islands known as Hawaii becomes part of the United States as a State.
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John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Dr. King is shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.
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A break in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in which four men were arrested and is suspected that President Nixon was apart of this scandal and Nixon resigns.
