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Hollywood, California, becomes the center of movie production in the U.S.
The first feature film was created. The Nestor Company built the first movie studio in Hollywood in nineteen-eleven. Two years later, Cecil B. Demille produced the first long, serious movie in Hollywood. It was called "The Squaw Man." Director D. W. Griffith also arrived in Hollywood in those early years. He created new ways of using a camera to tell a story through moving pictures. -
Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
-His wife was assasinated as well
-Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1896 until his death
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Germany declares war on Russia and France. Great Britain declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Germany invaded Belgium. In Brussels, the Belgian capital, an American war correspondent described the first major refugee crisis of the 20th century. As german troops swept across Belgium, thousands of civilians fled in terror. -
Germany Declares War
-Declares war on russia and grance
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Albert Einstein proposes his general theory of relativity
Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers. This was the theory of special relativity. It introduced a new framework for all of physics and proposed new concepts of space and time. -
Alexander Graham Bell makes first transcontinental telephone call.
Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service as part of a demonstration that included dignitaries in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Jekyll Island, Ga. Bell, in New York at the time, made the first call to Thomas Watson, his former assistant, who was in San Francisco. -
German U-boats sink
One of the worst disasters. Of the 1,198 people lost, 128 were Americans. Despite Germany's explanation, Americans became outraged with Germany because of the loss of life. -
The battles of Verdun and the Somme claim millions of lives.
The british suffered 60,000 casualties the first day alone. The scale of slaughter was horrific. Known as trench warfare. -
Woodrow Wilson is reelected president
pitted against Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. After a hard-fought contest, Wilson defeated Hughes by nearly 600,000 votes in the popular vote and secured a narrow majority in the Electoral College by winning several swing states with razor-thin margins. Wilson's re-election marked the first time that a Democratic Party candidate had won two consecutive Presidential elections since Andrew Jackson won re-election in the 1832 election. -
The Bolsheviks establish a Communist regime in Russia
overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd and established the Russian SFSR, eventually shifting the capital to Moscow in 1918. The Bolsheviks appointed themselves as leaders of various government ministries and seized control of the countryside, establishing the Cheka to quash dissent. To end Russia’s participation in the First World War, the Bolshevik leaders signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in March 1918. -
The First World War ends.
This first global conflict had claimed from 9 million to 13 million lives and caused unprecedented damage. Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war.
