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The sinking of SS Titanic
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Henry Ford creates the first moving assembly line.
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Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo.
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Germany invades Belgium, beginning World War I.
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Lusitania was hit by torpedo from German submarine and sunk.
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American press published news of the note.
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President Wilson outlines his case for war to Congress.
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The beginning of the Harlem Renaissance
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League of Nations was established
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Tomb of King Tut Discovered
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F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Great Gatsby"
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John Scopes is arrested for teaching about the theory evolution
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Sacco and Vanzetti were executed
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The Jazz Singer, was the first ever talkie
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First Mickey Mouse cartoon was aired.
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Sliced bread was invented
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The Kellogg-Briand pact was signed to "outlaw" war.
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Al Capone was Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion
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F.D.R was elected president.
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The New Deal begins.
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Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act.
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Roosevelt had his first "fireside chat" on the radio.
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The Works Progress Administration was created.
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Drought hits Central America.
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Social Security was founded for disability and retirement.
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The Hoover Dam was completed.
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The act was adopted.
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Auschwitz Concentration Camp was first opened
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M&Ms were created.
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The Battle of Stalingrad occurred.
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Japanese-Americans were held in internment camps during war.
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The Manhatten Project begins and is introduced.
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Italy joins the Allies.
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Allied Powers attack France to gain back control.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin at the Yalta Conference meeting.
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The first atomic bomb was tested.
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FDR dies of cerebral hemorrhage.
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The Korean War begins.
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Found guilty of conspiracy of wartime espionage and sentenced to death.
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Polio vaccine was created
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Joseph Stalin dies.
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Beginning of bus boycott.
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Opening of DisneyLand
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4-year-old African-American boy from Chicago killed in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
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Refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
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Martin Luther King helps found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to fight for civil rights.
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Dr. Seuss published the Cat in the Hat.
