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1900's to 1950's
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Henry Ford opens assembly lines to African American Workers
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Germany invades Belgium (Schlieffen Plan)
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WWI
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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Passage of the Selective Service Act
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War Industries board Established for WWI
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Food Administration is set up under Herbert Hoover
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Russian Communist Revolution Begins
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Woodrow Wilson presents his Fourteen Points Peace Plan
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Russia withdraws from WWI
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Worldwide Spanish Flu Epidemic
Kills 30 million people world wide -
National War Labor Board established by Woodrow Wilson
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Espionage and Sedition Acts passed by Congress
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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles establishing the peace at the end of WWI
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Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies
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Armistice ends WWI
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Passage of Prohibition
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Prohibitiion
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Chinese Communist Government founded in Shanghai
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Benito Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
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Charles Lindbergh makes first nonstop transatlantic flight
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Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic in a solo flight
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President Alvaro Obregon of Mexico is assassinated
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Herbert Hoover elected President
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National Revolutionary Party organizes in Mexico
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Great Depression
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Al Capone is arrested for tax evasion
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Japan conquers Manchuria
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Hoover disbands the Bonus Army
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Marx Brothers
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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End of Prohibition
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First proposal of New Deal Programs to ease Great Depression
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Bank failures begin
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First Fireside Chat by FDR
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Hitler sets up Dachau
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Civilian Conservation Corps camps begin
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FDR is elected President
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FDR's Presidency
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Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted
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Congress creates the SEC
Securities Exchange Commission -
Babe Ruth hits 700th home run
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Works Progress Administration
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Dust Bowl
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Boulder Dam project is finished
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Congress passes the Social Security Act
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Civil War in Spain begins
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Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Olympics in Munich, Germany
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FDR is reelected president (2nd term)
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Hindenburg disaster
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Japan invades northern China
Machuria invasion for resources -
Orsen Welles broadcasts the War of the Worlds
Original Orsen Welles broad cast of War of the WorldsPanic as people fear we are being invaded. -
Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass)
German Jews are rounded up into ghettos and concentration camps and their property is confiscated by Hitler and the Nazis -
Hitler and Stalin sign a non aggression pact
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Hitler begins using his military strategy called blitzkrieg or lightning war
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Germany invades Poland
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WWII
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Britain and France declare war with Germany over the invasion of Poland
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Woody Guthrie sings this land is our land
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Japan, Germany, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact
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FDR reelected for a third term in office
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Lend Lease Act is passed
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Hitler invades the Soviet Union
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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United States enters WWII on the side of the allies
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Hitler begins his Final Solution
Increases the killing of Jews even by removing some of his elite troops from the front lines to work in concentration camps. -
WWII War Production Board created by Franklin D Roosevelt
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Japanese Internment Camps begin
Japanese are required to report to internment camps because of fear of espionage during WWII -
Doolittle's Raid on Toyko
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Battle of Midway begins
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Battle of Stalingrad begins
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Rommel surrenders in North Aftrica
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D day invasion of French Coast
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Battle of the Bulge begins
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FDR reelected President for the fourth time
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Yalta Conference
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Battle for Iwo Jima begins
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Victory in Europe Day
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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Victory over Japan day
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Seven year occupation of Japan begins
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Nuremburg War Trial begins
