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World War 1 Timeline Essay

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Cooper Clayton

WWI
WWI began July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. This was the very first war among the countries. The war lasted 4 years. The president at the time was Woodrow Wilson. The war too place in Europe. August 1 Germany declared war on Russia. They sold war bonds and nobody got there money back. This event is connected to the russian revolution. “The man swimming against the stream knows the strength of it” - Woodrow Wilson

Prohibition
Prohibition was the banning of the distribution of alcoholic beverages. It began in 1920. Crime rate actually rose because of it. A significant person of the prohibition was Al capone. He was a famous gangster. He ran a illegal booze smuggling community under a casino. …show more content…

This war had a lot of air conflict in it. Like kamikazes and bombers machine gun planes. There was a lot of marine warfare too. Like destroyer ships. When germany started running out of oil they made synthetic oil but they wanted the oil fields in russia. Germany in a dictatorship there is only one leader that was Adolf Hitler. We the allies won the war the british beat the german. The U.S dropped two atomic bombs on Japan because they bombed pearl harbor. “The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates

CIA Established
The CIA was established September 18, 1947. Like most business the CIA took time to develop. It wasn't up and running the next day. The very first CIA headquarters was located on 2430 E St, NW in Washington DC. Harry S. Truman was the founder of the CIA. He was our 33rd president of the United States. The CIA's primary mission is to collect, analyze, evaluate and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the president in making decisions relating to national security. This is a very complex process and involves a variety of steps. So basically the cia protect the united states along with the

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