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Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip
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Germany invaded Belguim as a faster way to get to Paris and take over France, only to be met by heavy resisitance from a small Belguim army.
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A German U-Boat attacked a Brtish Liner and sunk it in a huge disaster off the coast of Ireland.
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Was one of the longer battles; Was trench warfare with a high casualty rate.
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The US discovered a new way to sends ship, they figured out that if you send a large group and the U-boats wouldnt be able to take them out.
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US President gives a speech in front of senators, representatives, and ambassadors on what his solution for the war was.
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This act required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for the military.
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United states declared war against the Central Powers
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US troops filled gaps between Fench and British troops durring a German offensive.
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The US deployed 95 ships. The government took over commercial and private ships and converted them for military use.
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The war ends after the countries in the Central Powers signed the Armistice agreements.
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Officer York killed 25 Germans, and 6 doughboys , he also captured 132 Prisoners, all with just a rifle and a revolver.
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Austria-Hungary surrendered to the allied forces in the same day that Germany mutinied against its government.
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Germany agreed to a cease fire and signed the a truce that ended the war.
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Austria-Hungrary was broke up into smaller countries
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The legislature passes the 18th amendment which bans alcohol
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Broadway shows are starting to become more and more popular
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The KKK reached over 4,000,000 members
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John Scopes is put on trial for teaching evolution in the classroom and for going against the cruch
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The Moodel A was released into the market and was massly produced
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The first tickets for a flight were sold in Michigan
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The stock market crashed leaving many people without money or jobs
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The bottom fell out of the country and it also caused the confidence of the country to go with it
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600 bankcs closed
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The current president Herbert Hoover struggles to recover the country.
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Was the biggest dam ever constructed. Was part of a $700 million public works plan.
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The new hope for the United states presented by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A group of military men were promissed a cash bonus and never recieved it.
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Franklin Roosevelt wins Presidency
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2,600 schools shut down leaving 300,000 students without education
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Legislature passes the 21st amendment which makes alcohol leagel
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The dust bowl was caused by the over farming of land and a drought and the wind blew dirt everywhere
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Once they took over Poland, France and Britain joined in to help. Thus creating WWII
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The Japanese surprised the Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor with a bombing mission, with over 2700 American Casualties.
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US declares war on Japan the day after the attack of Pearl Harbor
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Jews were placed into gas chambers which they were killed in.
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The Battle of Stalingrad began
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General Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east.
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The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime.
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He commited suicide because he wouldve rather taken his own life than be captured and put to justice
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The Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, killing about 78,000 people and injuring 100,000 more
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a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, killing another 40,000 people.
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The United Nations were created to limit the chance of another WW ever happening again
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg become the first US citizens executed for espionage and giving away Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets.
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The Warsaw Pact was agreed on by the Soviet Union which now made them have a much larger area. This area included the countries that surounded Soviet Russia.
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Salk is the first man to discover a successfull vaccine for Polio.
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Once he took over in the USSR it became very clear that he wanted to spread communism rapidly throughout Europe.
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Hungary attempted to break away from communism and become a democracy, but the Soviet Union stopped that with a brutal attack on them.
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The Soviet Union's first Sputnik satellite successfully made it into space, making them the winners of the space race against he United States.
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The televison debate was a very crucial moment for the election of 1960 because the US got to see the canidates and noticed how much more presentable JFK looked than Nixon.
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The beginnng on the Vietnam conflict
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The Berlin Wall was built to divide East and West Germany so they could stop the spread of democracy.
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The Tsar Bomba was the largest bomb to ever be exploded
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The Soviet Union had placed Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, well within strikning distance of the United States.
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Martin Luther King Jr. lead a group of civil right activists on a march through Washington DC demanding equal rights for Blacks.
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Hotline was established between Moscow and Washington
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Treaty that restricts the testing of Nuclear Missiles above ground
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Malcolm X. Assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam in New York City. There is a dispute about which members killed Malcolm X.
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After the Civil Rights act had been passed, a white man had joined in the marches and was beaten to death.
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MLK was assinated for his actions with the civil rights movement.
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JFK's brother was assassinated.
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Neil Armstrong was the first person to land on the moon,
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The notorious Woodstock Festival is held August 15 - 17 at a 600 acre farm in Woodstock, New York
