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Women granted the right to vote
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First commercial radio broadcast was aired.
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League of Nations was born
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oil scandal
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Mussolini led troops into Rome
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First year of the Winter Olympic Games
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Scopes was sued for teaching evolution in a public school.
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Babe Ruth clinches the all-time homerun record
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Great Depression caused by stock market crash
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Stock Market Crash
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Act of civil disobedience in India, led by Mohandas Gandhi
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United States officially gets an anthem
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Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic ocean
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Hitler creates first Nazi concentration camp
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Dust cloud creates a drought leaving farmers unable to grow crops
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Germany's anti-Jewish laws
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Hoover Dam was completed
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A giant blimp, The Hindenburg, goes up in flames
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Albert Einstein contacts FDR about building an atomic bomb.
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Germany invades Pland and WWII starts
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German air raid on Britain lasting 3 months
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Leader of the Red Army was assassinated
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Nazi Rudolf Hess flies to England to negotiate a peace agreement
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The Jeep is created
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Prolonged military operation performed by Germany which failed.
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Mount Rushmore Memorial was finished
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Japanese attack US Naval base in Pearl Harbor
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One of the most important naval battles of WWII
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Anne Frank goes into hiding after getting a phone call from someone about Nazi invading.
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Top Secret plan to build a nucleear bomb begins
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Nazis tried to take over Soviet city, Stalingrad, but failed
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Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Americans invade Italy and Italy surrenders to join the allies
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US troops invade Normandy
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US drops atomic bomb Hiroshima. Drops a second 3 days later in Nagasaki
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Truman orders construction of hydrogen bomb.
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McCarthy "witch hunt" of communists begins
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North and South Korea begin a war
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Truman sign treaty with Japan ending WWII
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Polio Vaccine discovered
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Former Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin dies at age 74
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed for suspected espionage.
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Report claims that cigarettes cause cancer.
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Segregation is ruled illegal in the US.
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Eastern European Alliance
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14 year old African American boy kidnapped and mugged to death in Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
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Elvis' controversial performance on Ed Sullivan Show
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Soviets launch first satellite into earths orbit.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration created.
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Walsh and Piccard explored the deepest par tof the earths ocean.
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First Presidential debates held on television.
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The Peace Corps is a group of people who travel to underdeveloped countries teaching them the essentials in life
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Soviet launch Yuri Gagarin into space
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USA invades Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Castro.
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Wall built between East and West Berlin
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Rachel Carson's book on harmful effects of pestisides.
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Soviets insert medium range offensive nuclear missiles into Cuba
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Direct phone line between the US and USSR
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President Kennedy Shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
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US military troops go into Vietnam
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Warren Commission gives final report on JFK assassination.
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Massive protests begin arising against the draft
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First successful adult heart transplant
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Charles Manson convinced his heavily drugged group of followers to kill
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The National Guard opens fire on a student protest against the Vietnam War, killing four.
