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19th Amendment gives women the right to vote.
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Warren G. Harding is elected president.
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Secret leasing of federal oil reserves.
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Times Magazine start publishing
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Tennessee passed the nation's first law that made it a crime to teach evolution,
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Charles A. Lindbergh makes the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight
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Anacharists convicted of murdering two men in an armed robbery.
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Tunney defeats legendary heavyweight champion Dempsey.
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Babe Ruth hit his 60th home-run.
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Stock Market crashes
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Jane Addams was the first woman awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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The Empire State Building opened in New York City.
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The Bonus Army arrives in Washington DC
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president.
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21st Amendment ended the Prohibition
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Congress passes the social security act
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Amelia Earhart disappears on her legendary flight
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Route 66 is completed
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Wizard of Oz is shown in theaters
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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US enters World War II after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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The US and Britain formally declare war on Japan.
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Japanese Americans were sent to relocation centers.
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US soldiers taken captive and forced to march across an island.
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US attacks Japan
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Women are recruited to do men's jobs while they are at war.
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Riots in Las Vegas injuring Mexican immigrants,
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Invasion of Normandy France.
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GI Bill of Rights is passed
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President Roosevelt is elected for a 4th term.
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Deadliest US battle VS Japan
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US Marines take Iwo Jima
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Hrry S. Truman becomes president when Roosevelt dies.
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World War II comes to an end.
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The United States sent their troops into Korea.
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Rhythym, blues, country, and pop.
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Richard Nixon's televised speech.
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The United States sets off the first hydrogen bomb.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president of the United States.
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Federal Government gave up responsibility of Native American tribes.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed as spies.
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The Korean War cease-fire is signed.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka outlaws school segregation.
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Joseph McCarthy alleges communism in US
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Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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Eisenhower is reelected for president.
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Soviets launched first satelitte into space.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration is established
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Alaska and Hawaii become the last 2 states of the United States
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Francis Gary Power's U2 spy plane is shot down by Soviets.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy is elected president.
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US launches attack on Cuba with Cuba's own citizens, ending in huge embarrassment.
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Soviet Union installs missiles in Cuba that can destroy Washington DC in 15 minutes.
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JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
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Lydon B. Johnson is sworn in as president.
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Lyndon B. Johnson is elected as president.
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US troops sent into Vietnam.
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Thurgood Marshall becomes first black justice in the Supreme Court.
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Richard Nixon was elected president.
