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Franz Ferdinand the heir to the Australian Hungary throne is killed by Gavrilo Princip.
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German declares war on Russia and France.
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German invades Belgium, the Schlieffen Plan.
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Germans use chemical weapons for the first time.
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German U-boats sink Lusitania and kill 1,198 people.
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French held the line in the longest battle of the war, battle of Verdun.
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Disastrous British offensive, battle of Somme.
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Russia withdraws from the war.
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America mobilized for war against Central Powers.
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The steel strike ended.
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The 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote.
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Sacco and Vanzetti are cinvicted.
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A lease of the Teapot Oil Reserves in Wyoming.
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Louis Armstrong plays for King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago.
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America adopted the Fordney-McCumber Tariff which raised taxes in some places 60 percent.
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The Scopes trial takes place in Tennessee.
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British laborers declare a strike.
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Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs.
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Sacco and Vanzetti were executed and died in the electric chair.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.
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Became the first women to fly over the Alantic Ocean.
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The American Stock market collapses, causing the Great Depression.
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre occured.
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The stock market crashes.
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Herbert Hoover is elected president.
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More than 40% of the nations banks failed.
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8.20 Americans are unemployed.
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The bonus army arrives in Washington, D.C.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President.
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30 million Americans are unemployed.
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the 20th Amendment was passed making presidential inauguration to January.
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FDR is inaugurated.
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The Congress creates SEC to regulate the stock market.
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Congress pass the Social Security Act.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected twice.
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The Labor Unions started using sit down strikes.
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The wizard of Oz was released in theaters.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected a third time.
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union.
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Japanese bombed pearl harbor
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In the Battle of Midway it turns in favor of the Allies.
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Nazis developed the "final solution" for exterminating Jews.
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Allies lunched a massive invasion of Europe.
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Allies invaded Germany
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After allies invaded germany, Hitler commiteted suicide.
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The kKorean was begins.
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Chinese troops joined the war on North Korea side.
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Truman annouced that he had fired MacArther.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is electer as president.
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U.S. explodes first hydrogen bomb.
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Aided 16 countries $13 billion.
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The Korean war cease-fire is signed.
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed.
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West Germany joined the NATO.
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Soviets crush uprising in Hungary.
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Eisenhower is reelected.
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Soviets lunch Sputnik I.
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NASA is established.
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Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba.
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Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th state.
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The National Liberation Front forms in South Vietnam.
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John F. Kennedy is elected president.
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
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Congress pass the Civil Rights Act.
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Lyndon B. Johnson is elected president.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.
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First major combat units arrived in Vietnam.
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Cultural Revolution begins in China.
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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded black political party called the Black Panthers.
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Race riot occurs in major U.S cities.
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Martin Luther King. Jr is assassinated.
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President Nixion is elected.
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Robert Kennedy is asssassinated.
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U.S. troops begin their withdrawal from Vietnam.
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First man to walk on the moon.
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Ohio National Guard kills students at Kent State.
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Nixon Announced that they are invading Cambodia to clear out Noth Vietnam supplies.
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Daniel Ellsberg leaks the pentagon papers.
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North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam in the largest attack. which led to Nixion bombing North Vietnam.
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Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines.
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Henry Kissinger announced that there is "Peace at hand."
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Richard Nixion is reelected.
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Boming campaign against the two largest cities in North Vietnam.
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Last of the troops pull out to go home to America.
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Unitede States signs cease-fire with North Vietnam and Vietcong.
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Congress passed the War Powers Act.
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Gerald R. Ford becomes President.
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South Vietnam surrenders.
