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1900
First Olypics involving women held in Paris
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1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright fly first successful airplane
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1909
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People is founded
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1913
Income Tax Amendment establishes a tax on wages people
make
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1914
Panama Canal opens
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1914
World War One in Europe begins
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1918
World War One ends in Europe
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1920
Prohibition of alcoholic beverages begins
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1920
Women given right to vote
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1931
The 102-story Empire State Building completed as tallest
in the world
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1933
President Roosevelt inaugurated and begins New Deal
to end Great Depression
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1939
Germany invades Poland to begin World War II
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1941
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor Dec 7 and U.S. enters World
War II
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1945
U.S becomes a member of the United Nations
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1947
Jackie Robinson becomes first black major league baseball
player
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1950
U.S enters Korean War
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1954
Korean War ends
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1955
Rosa Parks refuses to follow segregation rules on
Montgomery Bus
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1955
Martin Luther King Jr. begins organizing protests
against black discrimination
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1959
Alaska becomes 49th state
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1959
Hawaii becomes the 50th state
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1961
Alan Shepard becomes first U.S. astronaut in space
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1963
President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas,
Texas
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1965
U.S combat troops sent to Vietnam to stop communism
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1968
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
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1971
18 year olds are given right to vote
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1974
President Richard Nixon resigns
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1975
Vietnam War ends
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1979
Iran seizes U.S. hostages
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1981
Sandra Day O'Conner becomes first woman on Supreme
Court
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1983
Sally Ride becomes first U.S. woman in space
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1986
Challenger spacecraft explodes killing the entire
crew
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1989
Berlin Wall, seperating East and West Germany, is
torn down
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1991
Persian Gulf War "Operation Desert Storm"
begins
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