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The assination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was done. He was the heir to the Austrian Empire. He was visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia.
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Austria declared war on Serbia. Serbia took over a part of Bosnia and people there considered themselves as Serbs and they wanted Bosnia a part of Serbia. The Serbian government couldn't fill the demands that Austria wanted, so Austria declared war.
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Germany declared war on Russia.
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Turkey entered the war with Germany's side. The Trench Warfare started to dominate the Westeren Front.
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Britian bombared Turkish forts in the Dardanelles.
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Italy declared war on Germany, and Austira.
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The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians.
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The Battle of Loos started. It was designed to push back the Germans two-pronged offensive.
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The Battle of Verdun started. It was the longest battle during World War 1, and it was fought between France, and Germany.
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The United States didn't want to be in World War 1, but we traded with nations and ended up being in war with Germany.
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Lloyd George becomes the Prime Minister for Britian.
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Britian captured Jersaleum from the Turks.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk waws signed between Russia and Germany,
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Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo.
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The Treaty of Versailes was signed by the Germans.This was a peace settlement to end World War 1.
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The League of Nations was established after World War 1 was over. It was made to ensure that another war outbreak wouldn't happen.
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Women were granted the right to vote in 1920. It was known as the 19th Amendment. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucritia Mott were very organized it this.
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The first commercial radio broadcast was aired. It was made in Pittsburgh by Frank Conrad who was the assistant chief engineer of the Westinghouse Electric Company.
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In 1923, Time magazine was founded. It was published by Henry Luce, and Briton Hadden. They wanted to make a magazine then was important, yet fun.
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President Warren G. Harding died after becoming sick from a trip to Alaska.
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Calvin Coolidge won his first President election. The electrial margikn was 382 to 136. -
Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as the first women governer in the United States. She was the governer of Wyoming.
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The first Mickey and Minnie Mouse apperance on film was released. It was a short film called, "Plane Crazy".
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Radiovision was created in 1925. It was demonstrated by Charles Francis Jenkins when he transmitted a film from Anacostia to Washington DC.
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Lava Beds National Monument was designated by President Calvin Coolidge. It's in California and was used by the Modoc Indians in 1872 during the Modoc War.
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The first flight to the North Pole and back was done by pilot Floyd Bennett and his navigator Richard Evelyn Byrd. They recieved the Medal of Honor.
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The Great Mississippi Flood started April 22, and ended May 5. The flood affected more than 700,000.
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Amelia Earhart becomes first women to solo across the Atlantic ocean.
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Gangsters working for Al Capone kill seven rivials in Chicago, Illinois. It's known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
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Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto. It was considered to be the 9th planet at that time.
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The Empires State Building was completed as the tallest building in the world.
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There was an assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was giving a speecdh when 5 shots were fired.
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Prohibition ended because of the 21st amendment. Many people still debate whether the band of alcohol was a good, or bad idea.
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The Spanish Civil war began. It ended in 1939.
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Dale Carnegie wrote and published "How to Win Friends & Influence People".
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Kind Edward VIII was being forced to deciede if he still wanted to be King or to be with his love. He only was King for a short 11 months.
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The Hindenburg was a large airship that was about to land but suddenly broke into flames. The entire aircraft was in flames within 34 seconds.
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The Golden Gate Bridge finally appeared in 1937. It was the lognest span in the world until the Verrazono Narrows Bridge was built in 1964.
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Amelia Earhart disappeared. She had reported a day earrlier that her plane ran out of fuel and couldn't land anywhere.
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The National Minumin Wage was created. It was $.25 per hour.
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The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettsyburg. There was the final reunion of Blue and Gray.
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The baseball hall of fame opened in Cooperstown, New York. Some idcutees were Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, and Ty Cobb.
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Albert Einstein alerted Franklin Roosevelt to an A-bomb opportunity.
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German planes attacked 12 ships off the British coast. Three ships sank and 35 people were killed.
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Hitler had a plan to attack the West, but he ended up canceling it because of the bad weather.
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The Novel, "Gone With the Wind" won eight Academy Awards, and best picture in 1939. The first black performer to recive an oscar was Hattie McDaniel, with that movie/novel.
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A Nazi air raid killed 108 people on a British liner in the English Channel.
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WGN-TV televised the first baseball game which featured the White Sox vs. the Cubs.
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The Germans captured Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Little in France.
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British forces in North America took over Derna.
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The British submarine "Upright" sinks the Italian cruiser "Armando Diaz" in one of the sea battles in the North American campaign.
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Hitler gave orders for the expansion of the Auschwitz prison camp to be ran by Commandant Rudolf Hoss.
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Twenty-six of te Allied Countries signed the Declearation by Unied Nations during the Arcdica Conference.
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The First Battle of El Alamein begins when Rommel begins itself assault on British defences.
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The Germans conquered the Island of Kos. This was the small battle between the British, Italian, and German forces.
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United States bombers accidently bomb Aemrican troops near St. Lo, France.
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United States planes bomb Singapore under the Japanese contorl.
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Russia enters war against Japan.
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Singapore was officaly liberted by British and Indain troops.
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The Berlin Blockade began. It supplied up to 12,000 tons of fuel, food, and various items daily on aircrafts.
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The Berlin Blockade ended. In 1961 the East German government closed the Berlin border and wasn't reopened until 1989.
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Thirty-five military advisors were sent to South Vietnem to give military and economic aid to the anti-communist government.
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The Federal Civil Defense Administration was established. This was created in response to the Soviet's first atomic explosion.
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Australia, New Zealand, and the United States signed a mutual security pact and called the ANZUS Treaty.
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President Truman authorizes the seizure of United States steel mills in order to avert a strike, but his action is ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 2.
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The first large scale vaccination of children againist polio began in Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania.
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Nuclear Arms Race atomic test series of eleven explosives at the Nevada test site.
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The United States CIA assists in the overthrow of the government in Iran, and retains the Shah Mohammod Reza Pahavi to the throne.
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The first color televisions went on sale.
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The USSR sent tanks into Pozan, and Poland to suppuess demonstrations by works.
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The USSR sent military aid to fight in Afghanistan.
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Sputnik launched into orbit.
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The United States recognized Fidel Castro's Cuban government.
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The first weather satellite called the Tiros 1, wasw launched by the U.S.
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Our flag was debuted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to reflect the admission of Hawaii in the union.
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Senator John F. Kennedy won the presidency. His campaign for president was the first televised debate. (September 26)
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There were disputes over the nationalization of United States bussinesses in Cuba because the U.S government had diplomatic and consuler relations with the cuban government.
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The "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba is repulsed by Cuban forces on an attempt to exile under the direction of U.S. forces.
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The first sign of a Vietname conflict was when President Kennedy admited the military advisers in Vietname would engage the enemy if we werea fired at
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Lt. Colonel John Glen became the first U.S. astronut to orbit in the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
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The island prison, alcartrazm was shut down by General Robert F. Kennedy.
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The U.S., Soviet union, and Great Britain all agreed to linited nuclear test-ban above ground.
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A peacae settlement to the land dispute between Mexico and the United States was enacted with the signing.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The Panama Canal incident occured when Panamanian mobs engaged with the United States troops.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson orders the continous bombing of North Vietname bellow the 20th parrallel.
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The Watts race riots in Los Angeles went on for five days. Thirty-four people were killed, and there was over $200 million of destruction.
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The Apollo program completed its mission, and Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.
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Computer floppy disks were first created.
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The United States withdraws troops from VietnamInternational event.
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Bill Gates founded Microsoft.
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John Paul II becomes Pope.
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IBM created first personal computers.
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Challenger space shuttle explodes in space.
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DNA was first used to convict criminals of crimes to prove them guilty, or nonguilty.
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The Hubble Telescope was launched into Space.
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The World Trade Center was bombed by terrisots. This killed 6, and injured thousands.
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Terrorists attack the US federal building in Oklahoma City, OK, and destroyed it. The attack killed168 people.
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The Titanic was awarded with the most successful movie ever made.
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A Killing Spree at Columbine High School occurred.
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Toyota releases first hybrid cars ever created.
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Micheal Jackson passed away.
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A huge earthquake, and tsunami hit Japan. More than 28,000 people dead or missing.
