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Fraz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot and killed by Gavrillo Princip
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Austria Hungary believes it will be a short war against Serbia
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Germany is defending Austria Hungary (Allies)
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Plan to invade Paris by going through Belgium
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Unable to save Belgium, the retreat to the Marne river in france and are stopped by german forces andengage in trench warfare.
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German's suspected there was ammunition aboard the boat. 1,198 persons lost
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Allied against the central powers
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campaign in Artois that was designed to push back the Germans
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Britian bombs germany for 7 days and nights as a stratagey to Fatige the germans. Britian goes to charge the trenches but is gunned down by machine gun fire
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wilson used the campaigned " He kept us out of war"
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Any boats posing a threat can be sank
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President Wilson anounces that he united states will be entering the war
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Two Italians Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and executed for alegedley killing their paymaster and his guard.
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Women granted the right to vote.
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Raised taxes on U.S. imports by 60%
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Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke. Vice president Calvin Coolidge becomes President
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John Scopes goes to trial for teaching Darwins theory of evolution in a school's classroom.
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Charles Lindbergh flys solo across the atlantic ocean from new york to france
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the first talking motion picture
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Came in 2 different colors than the Model T and it was the customers choice.
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Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premires and introduces Mickey Mouse.
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the construction of the empire state building begins and will cost 24.7 million dollars
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The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is signed by President Herbert Hoover. It's effective rate hikes would slash world trade.
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After one year this massive structure is completed
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Attempt to Stimulate banking and buisness
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F.D.R is elected president
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The Civilian Conservation Corps is authorized under the Federal Unemployment Relief Act.
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In South Dakota, a strong dust storm strips topsoil from depression era farms. It was one in a series of storms to hit the Midwest during 1933 and 1934.
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He is among the charter class of players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
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Passed by Congress as part of the New Deal legislation and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It would begin payouts to retirees within two years.
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FDR defeats Alfred Landon
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It created a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
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A nationwide scare develops when Orson Welles broadcasts his War of the Worlds radio drama
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Albert Einstein alerts Franklin D. Roosevelt to an A-bomb opportunity, which led to the creation of the Manhattan Project. Einstein had arrived as a fugitive from Nazi Germany six years earlier on October 17, 1933
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after Denmark surrendered
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact, making Japan part of the Axis.
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The U.S. Congress passes the Lend-Lease Act giving Roosevelt the authority to sell, transfer, or lease war goods to the government of any Allied country,
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Japan attacks the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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The U.S. and Britain conclude the Arcadia Conference in Washington, DC. Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to establish a Combined Chiefs of Staff. Winning the war in Europe would come before winning the war in the Pacific.
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U.S. troops on Bataan in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese , and the Bataan Death March begins.
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the U.S. Bomb Toyko.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers initiates the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb.
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German troops attempt to deport the ghetto's last surviving Jews. About 750 Jews fought back the Germans for almost a month.
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between the U.S. and Britain decide to delay the Allied invasion of France and plan the Allied invasion of Italy. In Alaska, U.S. troops land on Attu in the Aleutian islands to retake it from the Japanese .
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D-Day. the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe -- begins on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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The U.S. defeat the Japanese. This victory paved the way for eventual success in the Marianas invasion.
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The world's first atomic bomb is successfully tested in New Mexico. The bomb is to be dropped on Japan
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North Korea began bombing on South Korea. The spread of communism also started this war. The U.S. military sent troops to South Korea because of the Truman Document stating that the U.S. had to help any country fighting communism.
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America responds to the Soviets first hydrogen bomb by making their own
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50,000 Americans were involved in the war against North and South Vietnam. The U.S. was supporting South Vietnam at the time. This was the longest war and was supplied many weapons. At the end 3 million people were killed during this time period.
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This pact became a militaristic threat because it was the Communist counteraction to NATO. The treaty included "total equality".
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Becomes the new Russian leader of the communist party
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Hungaria revolting against Russia's unewanted presence in the country. This lead to the revolt bing put down by soviet troops.
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Soviet Union launches the first satellite into space creating a space race
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Communist leader Fidel Castro took control of Cuba. He brought the threat of Communism from Russia Cuba.
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American spy plane shot down over Russia durring talk of peace.
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An invasion ordered by JFK on Cuba. This was ment to start a rebellion against Fidal Castro. At the end instead of a revolt it gave Castro a victory which made him a symbol to American agression.
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous "I Have A Dream" speach
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In a motorcade President Kennedy was shot twice the 2nd shot hitting his head. The most controversal assassination in History
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British rock group the Beatles arrive in America
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As Malcolm X prepared to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, a disturbance broke out in the 400-person audience a man yelled, As Malcolm X and his bodyguards moved to quiet the disturbance, a man seated in the front row rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a double-barreled sawed-off shotgun
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MLK was shot in the back of the head by James Earl Ray in his hotel room
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Five members of the "Chicago 7" are convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago.
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