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Franz Ferdinand and his family was assassinated by Serbian
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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The U.S. President Woodrow Wilson says the U.S. will remain nuetral
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The unofficial Christmas truce is declared
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Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain, essentially effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets.
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The Second Battle of Ypres begins. It is during this battle that the Germans first use poison gas.
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The British ocean liner, the Lusitania is sunk by German U-boat.
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Tsar Nicholas II takes personal control over Russia's armies
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The Battle of Verdun was the longest battle of World War 1 and was one of the bloodiest.
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During the Battle of the Somme, tanks are first introduced into battle.
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The US declares war on Germany
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The Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian Government
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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issues his Fourteen Points to peace
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Germany launches the Spring Offensive
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German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees Germany
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The planet PLuto was discovered
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The Empire state building was officially finished
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Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt had just sat down after giving a speech at the Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida when five shots rang out. Giuseppe Zangara, an Italian immigrant and unemployed bricklayer, had emptied his .32 caliber
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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, ending prohibition
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the Nazi government passed two new racial laws at their annual NSDAP Reich Party Congress in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Hoover Dam is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
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the world came together for the quadrennial Summer Olympics in Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany.
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while the Hindenburg was attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, a flame appeared on the outer cover of the rear of the Hindenburg. Within 34 seconds, the entire airship was consumed by fire.
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I Was a war fought primarily between the Axis Powers (Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States).
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The United States government approves a sale of surplus war material to Great Britain.
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commences at 7:55 a.m. when Japanese fighter planes launch a surprise attack on United States soil, destroying the U.S. Pacific Fleet docked at the base.
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Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause forty deaths and seven hundred injuries.
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The Normandy Invasion, D-Day, occurs when one hundred and fifty-five thousand Allied troops, including American forces and those of eleven other Allied nations (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, and the United Kingdom) land in France.
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President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Josef Stalin hold the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union.
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The Atomic Energy Commission is established.
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Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's barrier against colored players when he debuts at first base for Branch Rickey's Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the United States military, is signed into effect by President Harry S. Truman.
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United States withdraws its troops from Korea.
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The Brinks robbery in Boston occurs when eleven masked bandits steal $2.8 million from an armored car outside their express office.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of conspiracy of wartime espionage and sentenced to death. They were executed June 19, 1953. Morton Sobell was also convicted of the crime and sentenced to thirty years in prison. September 1, 1951 - The United States, Australia, and New Zealand sign a mutual security pact, the ANZUS Treaty.
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At Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the first hydrogen bomb, named Mike, is exploded
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The first color televisions go on sale.
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The first large scale vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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The United States government agrees to train South Vietnamese troops
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Interstate highway system begins with the signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for his second term in office.
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Explorer I, the first U.S. space satellite, is launched by the Army at Cape Canaveral. It would discover the Van Allen radiation belt.
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Alaska is admitted to the United States as the 49th state
