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Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by making the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol illegal
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Granted women the right to vote
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Baseball World Series is broadcasted for the first time. The New York Giants beat The New York Yankees 5 games to 3
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Italian immigrant radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are convicted of murder and executed
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Germany suffers hyperinflation due to reparation payments imposed by the Treaty of Versailles
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
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Was the first man to hit 60 home runs in one season playing for the New York Yankees
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Al Jolson's The Jazz singer, becomes the first talking motion picture, marking the beginning of the end to the silent film era
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The murder of 7 mob associates as a part of a Prohibition-era conflict between 2 powerful criminal gangs in Chicago
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Stock Market Crash
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Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union under the codename operation "Barbarossa"
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The Japanese surprise the United States by bombing Pearl Harbor
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Roosevelt started the War Production Board to supervise war production during the war
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All Japanese Americans that lived in highly populated areas were sent to relocation centers in fear that they were spies or would turn against us
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4 African American college students sat down at a whites only counter and refused to move causing an uproar in the South
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The first freedom riders consisted of 7 African Americans and 6 white people who boarded a bus going from Birmingham, AL to Anniston, AL. They were pushing for them to enfore the Alabama law that stated bus terminals could not be segregated. This lead to the people being beaten and the buses attacked.
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Organized by A. Phillip Randolph to march for jobs, school intergration,
