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The Second Boer War rages in Africa
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"Brownie" camera introduced
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Queen Victoria dies.
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Theodore Roosevelt serves his first term as President after McKinley is assassinated.
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Guglielmo Marconi sends the first wireless Trans-Atlantic message.
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Roosevelt sends out the Great White Fleet
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William Howard Taft is president.
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John Arthur "Jack" Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight champion in the world.
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W.E.B Du Bois establishes the NAACP
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Great Britain lays the world's first oil pipeline in Persia.
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146 people die in a fire at Manhattan's Triangle Shirt-waist Factory
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Revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen establishes a new republic in South China
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Wilson signs the Underwood Tariff Act, reducing or eliminating import tariffs
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Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act, the most wide-reaching banking bill in the nation's history
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1,517 people perish when the "unsinkable" Titanic sinks
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Ottoman Empire collapses; great European powers carve it up.
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Seventeenth Amendment provides for direct election of senators.
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Sixteenth Amendment authorizes an income tax.
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Woodrow Wilson is President
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Congress passes the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Adamson Act (8-hour day for railroad workers), and the Child Labor Act.
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Assassination of Acrhduke Ferdinand sparks World War 1
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The failure of the Schileffen Plan and the final battles of the Race to the Sea necessitate trench warfare on the Western Front
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Balkan campaign fails for Austria-Hungary
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Italy joins the Allies
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The Allies lose 50,000 men in the disastrous Dardanelles campaign (Gallipoli)
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Germans utilize poison gas against Allied troops during the Second Battle of Ypres
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German U-boats sink the Lusitania
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Alexi Brusilov launches his campaign against Austria-Hungary
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Over a million men die in the Battle of the Somme
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Over a million men die at the Battle of Verdun.
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Both the Allies and Central Powers claim victory at the Battle of Jutland
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Wilson ends diplomatic relations with Germany after Germans sink the U.S.S Housatonic
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Wilson's administration makes the Zimmermann Note public to Americans
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Congress declares war against Germany
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The heartbreaking Third Battle of Ypres (known as Passchendaele) takes thousands of lives
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Bolsheviks take over the Russian government
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Jerusalem is overtaken by the Allies
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Police arrest White House suffragette picketers
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Italians are devastated at the Battle of Caporetto
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Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, conceding enormous amounts of land and people to Germany
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Wilson announces his Fourteen points for a just peace
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Germany breaks the Allied line on the Western Front during its Spring Offensive
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U.S. troops help the Allies win the Second Battle of the Marne
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The Ottoman Empire collapses
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Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
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Allies and Germans agree to an armistice effective at 11 a.m.
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Russian Civil war is fought between the Reds and the Whites.
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Germany is forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles
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Eighteenth Amendment prohibits the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States
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Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote
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First radio network broadcast
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Congress refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations
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Warren Harding is President.
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Mussolini secures dictatorial powers in Italy
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Stalin is named the general secretary of the Russian Communist Party.
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Hitler is arrested and put in prison, where he writes Mein Kampf after the failed Beer Hall Putsch
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Calvin Coolidge is President
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Lenin dies.
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J. Edgar Hoover becomes head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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The Scopes Trial takes place
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Robert Goddard launches the first modern rocket
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Charles Lindbergh successfully flies an airplane nonstop from New York to Paris
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Stalin introduces the first Five-Year Plan to expand the U.S.S.R.'s military and industry.
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The stock market crashes on Black Tuesday
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Stalin rules as undisputed dictator of the Soviet Union.
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Herbert Hoover serves as President
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Stalin persecutes church members and leaders, drastically reducing active churches in the U.S.S.R.
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15,000 veterans march on Washington, D.C., demanding to be paid their bonus insurance early.
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Stalin forces a secret famine in the Ukraine and other rich farming areas in order to break the people's resistance to his seizure of personal property.
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Twentieth Amendment is ratified
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Twenty-first Amendment is ratified, repealing Proibition
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A drought hits the Great Plains, causing the Dust Bowl and displacing 60% of the Plains population
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Italy invades Ethiopia
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Italy invades Ethiopia
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German troops occupy the Rhineland
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German troops occupy the Rhineland
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Japan seizes the main ports of China and commits many heinous acts against the Chinese people.
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Francisco Franco leads the Nationalists against the left-wing Republicans in the Spanish Civil War
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Francisco Franco leads the Nationalists against the left-wing Republicans in the Spanish Civil War
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Japan seizes the main ports of China and commits many heinous acts against the Chinese people
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Demanding Anschluss, Germany takes over Austria
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Demanding Anschluss, Germany takes over Austria.
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Franco turns Spain into a fascist state
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Japan invades Chinese Manchuria
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Germany seizes the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia under the Munich Agreement
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Hitler and Stalin sign a non-aggression pact to divide Poland
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Japan invades Chinese Manchuria.
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Franco turns Spain into a fascist state.
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Germany seizes the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler and Stalin sign a non-aggression pact to divide Poland.
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The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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U.S. declares war on Japan, entering World War II
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Bataan, the last defense of the Philippines, falls to the Japanese
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Japan's advance is stopped by the U.S. at the battle of the Coral sea
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U.S. victory at the Battle of Midway is the turning point of the war in the Pacific
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General Montgomery defeats Rommel at the Battle of El Alamein in Africa.
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Executive Order 9066 directs all Japanese-Americans to relocation camps in the American west
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The Germans surrender to the Soviets at the Battle of Stalingrad.
