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the invention of the telephone
Alexander graham and Thomas Watson were the people that invented the telephone. The telephone aloweed world wide communication. In 1870 5% of women were employed and in 1910 more then 40% of workers were women. -
the united states acquires alaska
- The U.S bought Alaska from russia for 7.2 million dollars.
- Alaska had alot of resources such as timber, minerals, and oil.
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industrialization
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cubans rebel against spain
- the cubans did not succeed in rebeling against spain.
- the cubans forced spain to abolish slavery in 1886.
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the power of electricity
- Thomas edison invented the light bulb. -
war fever escalates
- people were traped in barbed wire fences.
- 300,000 cubans died in there.
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the united states takes hawaii
- Yankie missionaries found christian schools and churches.
- the congress basically made the hawaiians give up there land to the U.S.
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the fighting starts
- germany invades belgium
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german U-boat
- lusitania sunk by germans
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the collapse of Germany
on this day germans agree to cease fire and sighned the armistice. -
black tuesday
The stock market crashed and everyone tried to sell there stocks all at once. -
financial collapse
650 banks closed because people paniked when the stock crashed and they withdrew all of there money from the banks. -
how the depression took lives
shantytown was a place where people went if they had no money. the towns were on the outskirts of town and you slept in shacks or sewers with ripped up newspapper as a blanket -
Nazi's take over Germany
Hitler was appointed chancellor. Once in power Hitler quickly dismantled Germany's democratic weimar republic. -
Germany takes Austria
German troops marched into Austria unopposed. A day later they had taken union with them. -
kristallnacht
This was known as "night of broken glass." Nazi storm troppers attacked jewish homes synagogues across Germany. -
pearl harbor
this was when the japs came bomed our battelships.
For an hour and a half the Jap airplanes bomed thoes ships and there planes barley got shot down. -
the battle of the bulge
The Americans swarmed and captured the first German town named Aachen. -
rosevelts death
president rosevelt did not get to see V-E day
he was posing for a portrait and he had a stroke and died. -
unconditional surrender
the soviet army stormed Berlin.
the inocent dead had placards on them saying "we betrayed the fuhrer. -
the japanese defense
the japs would attack feircley by dive bombing the planes into things.
