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The assassination of Archduke Fran Ferdinand led to the beginning of WWI and it lasted until 1918. During this time there were a lot of advancements in military technology. -
On August 18th, 1920, the 19th amendment to the constitution was ratified. After decades of the women's suffrage movement women won the right to vote in the United States. -
The Great Depression was a decade long, and it is described as the worst economic downturn in history. It began after the stock market crash in October of 1929. -
In 1939, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party in Germany, invades Poland. This action drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany progressing into World War II. -
On December 07th, 1941, the naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by a swarm of Japanese warplanes. This event marked the entrance of the United States into World War II. -
Supreme court case in which the justices ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
This was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. In 1959, the Soviets launched Luna 2, a space probe, to the moon. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a soviet cosmonaut, orbited the earth. In 1962, John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man walk on the moon. -
The German government began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin. -
While traveling through Dallas, TX, 35th president John F. Kenndey was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in that same day. -
It began when several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Complex. They were connected to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. Nixon attempted to cover up the crime but ended up resigning on August 09, 1974.