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1920

• 19th Amendment passes (Women can vote)

• Worldwide influenza pandemic

• Panama Canal complete

• U.S. joins League of Nations

1929

• Stock Market Crash

• Herbert Hoover elected president

• U.S. leaves League of Nations

• 19th Amendment passes (Women can vote)

1933

• New Deal begins

• Stock Market Crash

• World War 2 begins

• Theodore Roosevelt becomes U.S. president

1939

• World War 2 begins

• U.S. enters World War 2

• New Deal begins

• Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes U.S. president

1941

• U.S. enters World War 2

• World War 2 begins

• Atomic bomb used by U.S.

• World War 2 ends

1945

• World War 2 ends

• Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to 4th term

• Cold War begins

• Truman Doctrine

1947

• Jackie Robinson breaks baseball "color barrier"

• Berlin Airlift

• World War 2 ends

• Atomic Bomb first used

1948

• Berlin Airlift

• China becomes Communist

• Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's "color barrier"

• Cold War begins

1949

• China becomes Communist

• Berlin Airlift

• Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's "color barrier"

• Cold War begins

1954

• Brown v Board Decision

• Rosa Parks arrest

• Martin Luther King leads Montgomery Boycott

• Little Rock 9 escorted to integration