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  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.
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  - 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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  - the cubans did not succeed in rebeling against spain.
- the cubans forced spain to abolish slavery in 1886.
 
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  - Thomas edison invented the light bulb.
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  - people were traped in barbed wire fences.
- 300,000 cubans died in there.
 
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  - 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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  - germany invades belgium
 
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  - lusitania sunk by germans
 
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  on this day germans agree to cease fire and sighned the armistice.
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  The stock market crashed and everyone tried to sell there stocks all at once.
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  650 banks closed because people paniked when the stock crashed and they withdrew all of there money from the banks.
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  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
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  Hitler was appointed chancellor. Once in power Hitler quickly dismantled Germany's democratic weimar republic.
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  German troops marched into Austria unopposed. A day later they had taken union with them.
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  This was known as "night of broken glass." Nazi storm troppers attacked jewish homes synagogues across Germany.
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  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.
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  The Americans swarmed and captured the first German town named Aachen.
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  president rosevelt did not get to see V-E day
 he was posing for a portrait and he had a stroke and died.
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  the soviet army stormed Berlin.
 the inocent dead had placards on them saying "we betrayed the fuhrer.
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  the japs would attack feircley by dive bombing the planes into things.