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The US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
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Chicago, Illinois burned from October 8th-10th killing hundreds of people. The rebuilding of Chicago made it one of Americas greatest cities.
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The first World Series for MLB. Between the Pittsburg Pirates and Boston Americans
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Considered one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. Around 3,000 people died.
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The first affordable car that made driving available for middle-class people.
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Leaving from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. More then 1,500 people died.
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One of the treaties signed at the end of World War I. It was between Germany and the Allied powers.
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The stock market crashed on a day that is known as black tuesday. It began an economic depression across America. It lasted until the end of World War II
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During the great depression, the Empire State building opens. At the time it was the largest standing building in America
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Japan attacked the US at the Navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawii. This attack was the cause of the US entering in World War II
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The Manhattan Project was research and development project of atomic bombs in 1942 through 1946. The first necular detonation was July 6, 1945 in the Jornada del Muerta desert.
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Senator Joseph McCarthy accused that some people in the US government were communists.
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A war between communists and anti-communists.
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The Soviet Union and Cuba had missiles pointed at the US. The US put a blockade in Cuba. They would then reach an agreement, but not until after a U-2 US plane was shot down by the Soviet Union
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The 35th President of the United States was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that put the first men on the moon.
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President Nixon resigns because of a debate of a scandle that he was involved in. Vice President Ford took over as persident.
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It was designed for mainly for the home, education, and creative professional markets.
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Terrorist attack on American ground. Al-Queada took over american planes and crashed them into the twin towers in New York City.
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He was the leader and founder of al-Qaeda. He is the reason for September 11th, and the reason we were in Islamic territories.
