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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, starting the war.
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Germany declares war after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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German U-Boats sink the Lusitania and kill hundreds of innocent people.
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The Battle was one of the biggest ones of world war one, killing or wounding over 1,000,000 men.
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Woodrow Wilson was elected president for a second time in the 1916 election.
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Zimmerman note intercepted by the British. The note was an alliance request to Mexico from Germany.
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After the Lusitania and the Zimmerman note, the US has a reason to jump in the war.
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Selective Service act passed which was a law that made it so that all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
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The Bolshevik family is killed leading to a political change and Russia droping out of the war.
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The date that Woodrow Wilson proposed his 14 point plan to Congress.
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A global epidemic of Influenza that killed millions.
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This made it illegal for people to spy and to speak ill of the government.
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The day that Germany signed an Armistice that ended the first world war.
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The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote.
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One of the peace treaties signed towards the end of WW1. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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The 19th amendment was ratified giving women the right to vote.
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Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States.
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The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins; radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed.
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The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 billion.
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Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution.
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Charlie Chaplin's popular silent comedy The Gold Rush premieres before enthusiastic audiences.
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Buster Keaton's comedy classic The General, considered by many to be the greatest silent film ever made, premieres.
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Republican Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency by a landslide.
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Hurbert Hoover is elected president.
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The American stock market collapses, signaling the onset of the Great Depression.
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Construction begins on the empire state building.
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is signed by President Herbert Hoover.
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is established to stimulate banking and business.
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The Civilian Conservation Corps is authorized under the Federal Unemployment Relief Act.
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The New Deal social and economic programs are passed by the United States Congress in a special one hundred day session to address depression era economics.
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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is established with the signing of the Securities Exchange Act into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The Social Security Act is passed by Congress as part of the New Deal legislation and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Hoover Dam is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
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Albert Einstein alerts Franklin D. Roosevelt to an A-bomb opportunity, which led to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
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They decided to take over Britian by bombing them and taking over there airspace. Although the Germans continued to bomb Britian by october it was clear that the British had won. This was the first defeat of the Germans in WWII
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The Jeep was invented
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The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war that the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia, against Britain and the Netherlands, as well as the U.S. in the Philippines.
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Largest single revolot against the Germans that the Jews did. It was because they didnt want the Germans to take them to the Treblinka extermination camp.
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Ball point Pens go on Sale...niffty.
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The first computer, ENIAC, was built.
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He was elected more than two presidential terms. He died in office of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly before WWII ended.
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The German Instrument of Surrender was the legal instrument that established the armistice ending WWII in Europe.
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The modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year.
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George Gamow proposed that the universe was created in a gigantic explosion of the primeval atom and that the various elements observed today were produced within the first few minutes after the big bang.
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It was a kidney.
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The baby boom begins.
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Rock n Roll was created as a music.
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The Imigration and Naturalization Act was passed into law.
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Joseph Stalin dies from a heart attack
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They begin testing birth control pills.
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The Warsaw pact is signed.
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The war at Vietnam begins.
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The Russians launch Sputnik
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Alaska becomes a state.
