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William McKinley's second election to President
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William McKinley's assassination by anarchist Leon Czolgosz
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United States acquired the Panama Canal Zone Treaty
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Theodore Roosevelt's election as President of the United States
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William Howard Taft elected President of the United States
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Woodrow Wilson elected President
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Panama Canal opens to traffic
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First long distance telephone service between New York and San Francisco
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Jeanette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
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Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth
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United States entry into World War I
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Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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League of Nations joining of the U.S. is denied in the U.S. Senate
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Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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Charles Lindbergh first nonstop transatlantic flight
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Herbert Hoover elected President
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Stock Market Crash of 1929 marks the beginning of the Great Depression
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The Star Spangled Banner is adopted as the U.S. national anthem
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway elected to the U.S. Senate
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Franklin Roosevelt is elected President of the United States
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Hitler comes to power in Germany
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Civilian Conservation Corps begins
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Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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Works Progress Administration begins
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World War II begins with Germany's invasion of Poland
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U.S. declares neutrality at the beginning of World War II
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Tripartite pact is signed between Germany, Italy, and Japan
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United States entry into World War II
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Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is started
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D-Day invasion by American, British, and Canadian troops
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United States is attacked in the Philippines
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Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill meet at Yalta
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Franklin Roosevelt dies and Harry Truman succeeds him as President
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U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima
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U.S. drops atomic bombs on Nagasaki
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Cold War is termed and begins between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
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Presidential Succession Act signed by President Truman
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is established
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Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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President Truman removes General Douglas MacArthur as head of the Far East Command
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U.S. detonates its first hydrogen bomb
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Dwight D. Eisenhower elected President
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Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin accuses people of Communist activities and hearings begin
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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision ends segregation
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Russia detonates its first hydrogen bomb
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and others set up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Explorer I is launched
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Alaska becomes the 49th state
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John F. Kennedy is elected President
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U.S. gets involved in the Vietnam War
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Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Edward W. Brooke becomes first African American U.S. Senator
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Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
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Richard Nixon elected President
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Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified
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House recommends impeachment of Nixon
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Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States
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Ronald Reagan is elected President
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Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court Justice
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Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War)
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U.S.S.R. collapses and Communism comes to an end
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First case of COVID-19 discovered
