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Created by Hampsont on Oct 20, 2010
Last updated: 03/16/11 at 11:02 AM
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The Cold War ends
public became aware that the US/USSR had enough bombs to destroy the planet.
Russian army failed to fight Afghan terrorists and showed the world how weak it was.
Czecholslovakian leader wanted to democratize his country. Soviets kicked him out.
Kennedy sends US troops into Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro
Soviet Union supplies North Korea to invade South Korea.
military alliance between capitalist nations around the world to defend against communism
Palestinian Jews created te new nation of Israel
Plan set up to help rebuild European countries
Stalin gives a speech in Moscow to voters about how incompatibl communism and caapitalism are.
Churchhill gives a speech declaring that an Iron curtain had been dropped
The Atomic bomb was first used on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
Coordinated all government agencies involved in war
Over 70,000 U.S and Filipino soldiers were forced to march to Japanese prison camps.
Japanese navy crushed a fleet of Austrailian, Brittish, Dutch, and U.S. warships which had attempted to block the japanese invasion of Java.
Japanese planes bombed Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines
Japan attacks the naval base of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Winston Churchhill and FDR sign a post war plan to not pursue territorial expansion
Winston Churchhill and FDR sign a post war plan to not pursue territorial expansion
a line of defenses along the french-german border
Gave $7 billion worth of supplies to any country fighting the Axis powers
created to increase military poduction
Men all ages 21 to 35 were required to register
it crashed
Congress repeals 18th Amendment
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president
Never found again
WW1 veterans demanded an early payment of pension bonuses.
5000 unemployed people sieze goverment building
4 people killed when police opened fire
a dam established by hoover
9 african americans charged with rape, communist party defended them and all defendents released by 1950
largest building in the world untill 1954 was 1,250 feet high
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largest tariff on imported goods in U.S history
Written by Ernest Hemingway to explain the devastation of World War 1.
first pilot flies nonstop form New York to Paris flight lasted 33.5 hours.
biology teacher sued- Lawyers debate the credibility of the bible
enforced the 18th Amendment
Banned the munfacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol.
Peace conference held in Paris
Written by Woodrow Wilson to prevent a future war. Was presented to congress and accepted, but rejected by Europeans
The Senate declares War on Central Powers. Troops land in France lte june that year
Brittish cryptographers uncovered a note adressed to Mexico sent from Germany proposing an allinace against US.
German U-Boat sinks British passenger ship killing Americans
Heir to Austro-Hungarian throne killed by serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princep
Henry Ford mass produces Model Ts
Public unhappiness escaates into a riot casuing Czar Nicholas II to abandon the throne.
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