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Assassination of Franz Ferdinanad
He was assassinated at Sarajevo. -
Austria declares war on Serbia
One month after Frraz was assassinated Austria declares war. -
Britain declares war on Germany
Britain joins the war -
First trenches dug
Trenches dug on Western front -
Turkey joins Germany's side
Germany gains an allie -
First zeppelin air raid on London
Germany orders raids on Britain -
German U-Boat sinks Lusitania
Kills 1,198 civilians and 128 Americans die -
Germany captured Warsaw from Russia
Germany defeats the Russia at Warsaw -
British use gas in battle near Loos
Kills 60,000 British deaths -
Allies pull troops from Gallipoli
Moving troops -
Canadians take Vimy Ridge
Canda gets a big win -
Wilson warns Germany to stop unrestricted submarine policies
Stop submarine attacks -
Wilson re-elected as U.S. President
campaign slogan: "He kept us out of the war" -
David Lloyd George becomes British Prime minister
Britain gets new prime minister -
First American Expeditionary Force land in France
Ground troops arrive in France as America joins war -
18th Amendment
U.S. out laws the making, selling, or transportating of any liquor -
Senate Rejects League
The U.S. Senate refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versaillies. -
The 19th Amendment
The U.S. grantes women the right to vote -
Warren G. Harding
Wins the Electoral College vote 16 million to James M. Cox's 9 million votes. -
Emergency Quota
The United States of America made this act to curb legal immigration -
Reader's Digest
It was founded by Dewitt and Lila Wallace. -
Lincoln Memorial
It was is dedicated in Washington D.C -
Time Magazine
Published for the first time -
First Winter Held
held in French Alps in Chamonix, France -
The Grand Ole Opry
transmits its first radio broadcast -
First flight to the North Pole
pilots were Floyd Bennett and Richard Evelyn -
First Mickey Mouse comic strip was published
it was published in the New York Mirror -
The Chrysler Building opens
It opens to the public for the first time -
James Chadwick publishes his discovery of the neutron in Nature
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Charles Lindbergh son is kidnapped
He was found three years later dead -
John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split atoms nucleus
First in the world -
Summer Olympics
Hosted in Los Angeles -
Adolf Hitler become chancellor of Germany
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21st amendment is passed
it ended prohibition -
Henry Ford increases minimum wage.
It is raised to $5.00 per day -
Amelia Earhart Becomes first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean
She went from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California. -
Babe Ruth retires
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Hoover Dam
It is dedicated by President Roosevelt -
Summer Olympics open
It was held by Nazi Germany -
Hindenburg bursts into flames
At Lakehurst, New Jersey -
Golden Gate Bridge opens
First time open to the public to drive on -
Constructionof Auschwitz
a concentraction camp -
1st U.S. opra was telecast
NYC -
Germany invades Denmark
The Nazi's take over -
1st televised baseball game on WGN-TV
White Sox vs. Cubs in a exhibition game -
1940 Olympics were cancelled
was suppose to be in Tokyo -
Yalta Conference held
Cold War begins -
Germany Surenders
WWII ends with Germany -
Japan surenders
Peace treating singed of U.S Navy Boat -
British soldiers arrive in South Vietnam
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Greek Civial War
Truman declares active role -
Berlin Blockade
Stop people from going into Eastern Europe -
Birlin Blockade ends
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Truman Orders troops into Korea
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Federal Civil Defense Administration established
countries unite incease Russia would attack -
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes 34th prersident
Was a 5 star geniral -
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin dies
Nikita Khrushchev takes over -
Rosenberg spy executions
Russian spy caught in United States -
Korean War ends
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The last French soldier leaves South Vietnam
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Sputnik Launched
First spacecraft launched into space -
American U-2 shot down
Shot down over Russia -
U.S. breacks relation with cuba
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Cuba is invaded at Bay of Pigs
an estimated 1,200 anti-Castro exiles aided by U.S.; invasion crushed -
East Germany builds Berlin Wall
Built it to seperate West Berlin and East Berlin -
First American to orbit Earth
John H. Glenn Jr. three times in 4 hr 55 min -
Fance and West Germany sing treating
ended centuries of conflict -
Civil rights rally held in Washington D.C
Martin Luther King delivers “I have a dream” speech -
Pesident John F. Kennedy assinated
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Malcolm X assinated
In Harlem Rally -
Three Apolloa Astronaunts killed
Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee -
First hand-held calculator is on market
Selling price of $395. Modle HP-35 -
Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany
eight Palestinians belonging to Black September kill eleven Israeli athletes. -
Iraq invades Kuwait
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George Bush gives speach about Iraqi soldiers
U.S threatens to use force to remove Iraq soldiers from Kuwait. -
President Clinton plans to lifts ban on gays in military
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Channel tunnel opens
first passangers travel through -
Yahoo is founded
In Santa Clara, California
