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Franz Ferdinand assassinated
Someone from serbin shot him -
war is declaerd
war has started -
First gas
germany first to use gas -
lustitania sunk
sunk by a germany u boat -
battle of Verdun begins
first battle -
U-Boats
germany first to make them -
russian revolution
they leave the war -
one hundred days offenive begins
they been at it hundred days of offensive -
Armistice with germany sighed
germany has to say they are done and pay money up -
treaty of versailles
war is over -
red scare
the second anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia -
Palmer Raids
The Palmer Raids begin, launching a period of intense government persecution of radical political dissidents in response to the postwar Red Scare sweeping the nation. -
the league of nations
established -
Senate Rejects League
The Senate refuses to ratify the Versailles Treaty or authorize United States participation in the League of Nations. -
Garvey Conference
Charismatic black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, convenes the first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York's Madison Square Garden. -
woman rights
they got rights for voting -
football
first pro football -
Harding Landslide
Republican Warren G. Harding is elected to the presidency by a landslide. Harding wins 60% of the popular vote and 75% of the electoral vote; Democrat James Cox wins only a handful of states in the South. -
Immigration Quota
Congress passes immigration restrictions, for the first time creating a quota for European immigration to the United States. Targeted at "undesirable" immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europen -
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial
The Sacco-Vanzetti trial begins; immigrant Italian radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will eventually be convicted of murder and executed. -
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9 -
Germany attacks western Europe—France and the neutral Low Countries.
Luxembourg is occupied on May 10; the Netherlands surrenders on May 14; and Belgium surrenders on May 28. On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. -
Italy enters the war
Italy invades southern France on June 21. -
Nazi Germany and its Axis partners
invade the Soviet Union. Finland, seeking redress for the territorial losses in the armistice concluding the Winter War, joins the Axis just before the invasion. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
they are very sneaky -
The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II.
Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and British Singapore. By April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina, and Singapore are under Japanese occupation. -
The British bomb Köln
bringing the war home to Germany for the first time. Over the next three years Anglo-American bombing reduces urban Germany to rubble. -
Soviet troops counterattack
breaking through the Hungarian and Romanian lines northwest and southwest of Stalingrad and trapping the German Sixth Army in the city. -
Allied troops conquer Okinawa
the last island stop before the Japanese islands. -
atomic bomb
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. -
Chinese Civil War
between Communist and Nationalist forces. -
Truman is presented with the Clifford-Elsey Report
a document which listed Soviet violations of agreements with the United States. -
President Harry Truman announces the Truman Doctrine
starting with the giving of aid to Greece and Turkey in order to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere -
The Communist Party takes control
in Czechoslovakia, after President Edvard Beneš accepts the resignation of all non-communist ministers. -
Truman signs the Marshall Plan into effect
By the end of the programs, the United States has given $12.4 billion in economic assistance to European countries -
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin orders the blockade of all land routes from West Germany to Berlin
in an attempt to starve out the French, British, and American forces from the city. In response, the three Western powers launch the Berlin Airlift to supply the citizens of Berlin by air. -
: Dwight D. Eisenhower
becomes President of the United States. -
The first large scale vaccination
children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. -
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
inaugurated for his second term in office. -
Alaska is admitted to the United States
49th state to be followed on August 21 by Hawaii.
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Four black college students from NorthCarolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro
North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter, protesting their denial of service. This action caused a national campaign, waged by seventy-thousand students, both white and black, over the next eight months, in sit-ins across the nation for Civil Rights. -
The Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba is repulsed by Cuban forces in an attempt by Cuban exiles under the direction of the United States government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro. -
The construction of the Berlin Wall begins
by the Soviet bloc, segregating the German city, previously held in four sectors by Allied forces, including the United States. The wall would last for twenty-eight years. -
he first sign of a looming Vietnam conflict emerges
President Kennedy admits that the military advisors already in Vietnam would engage the enemy if fired upon. -
The Cuban Missile Crises begins
In response to the Soviet Union building offensive missiles in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade of military equipment to the island. An agreement is eventually reached with Soviet Premier Khrushchev on the removal of the missiles, ending the potential conflict after thirty-eight days, in what many think was the closest the Cold War came to breaking into armed conflict. -
The last twenty-seven prisoners of Alcatraz,
the island prison in San Francisco Bay, are ordered removed by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and the federal penitentiary is closed. -
The Panama Canal incident occurs
Panamanian mobs engage United States troops, leading to the death of twenty-one Panama citizens and four U.S. troops. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson wins his first presidential election
Johnson extended the Democratic victory by former running mate John F. Kennedy with a 486 to 52 thrashing of the Republican candidate in the Electoral College and over 15 million surplus in the popular vote. -
Medicare
the government medical program for citizens over the age of 65, begins. -
The Outer Space Treaty is signed
into force by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, to take effect on October 10, 1967.
