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 1909 - 1929 (20 years)
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| 1 | 1917 | - 1917—1918: World War One
United States enters into World War One
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| 2 | 1918 | - 1918—1920: Flu pandemic
Current estimates say 50–100 million people worldwide were killed - 500,000 to 675,000 in the US. The pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history". It is said that this flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century.
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| 3 | 1920 | - 1920: Women get right to vote
19th Amendment gives women the right to vote
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| 4 | 1929 | - 1929: Stock market crash
Stock market crash - great depression begins
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