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invention of the Model T
The first production of the Model T Ford was October 1, 1908 at the Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a diplomatic communication issued in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. It purposed that in the event that the US entered WWI Germany would give Mexico would Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The British were the ones that intercepted and decoded it. When confronted German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann admitted the telegram was genuine. This helped generate support for the US to enter WWI against Germany in April 1917 -
WWI Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 or also known as the Armistice of Compiegne was the armistice the ended fighting between Germany and the Allies on land, sea and air in World War I. The Allies were acknowledged the victors. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, The Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
19th Amendment
This amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to women. It became part of the US constitution August 19, 1920. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
On May 21, 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh landed his plane the Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Black Thursday
October 24, 1929 was when the stock market crashed brought about the Great Depression of 1930's. Panic caused 13 million shares to plummet in the New York Stock Exchange. -
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of government by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which funded project and programs put in place to combat the Great Depression. (20+ New Deal organizations were made) -
Hitler becomes chancellor
Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January 30, 1933. National Socialist German Workers Party. It formed after WWI and was an anti-communist party. -
signing Munich Pact
British and French prime ministers signed an agreement to avoid conflict with Germany giving away Czechoslovakia On September 30, 1938. It permitted Germany to annex Sudetenland on their claim that they were going to unite the German populous. -
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invasion of poland
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Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii which caused the US to enter into WWII. -
D-Day
(June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. It was called operation Neptune. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion -
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August the 6 and 9 of 1945 During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
formation of United Nations
October 24, 1945 was founded in San Francisco at the end of World War II, the organization was established with the aim of preventing future wars. -
formation of NATO
April 4, 1949 in Washington D.C to stop the expansion of Soviet Russia it was formed with US and 11 other western European countries. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
It was tested August 29, 1949, and was code-named by the Americans as Joe 1. The design was very similar to the first US "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, using a TNT/hexogen implosion lens design. -
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Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. In ended on July 27, 1953 -
Brown v Board of Education
May 17, 1954 was a decision to end segregation in public schools in Topeka Kansas. -
Vietnam War
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Rosa Parks incident
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat this began the December 1, 1955 sparked to civil rights movement. -
Long Telegram
February 22, 1956 George Kennan wrote a long telegram of 8,000 from the US embassy in Soviet Russia giving his opinion about Soviet Russia. He despised it and said it was a threat. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
October 15-28, 1962 it was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
JFK’s Assassination
President John Kennedy was assassinated November 22, 1963 -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Landed on the moon on July 20, 1969 -
Watergate Break-ins
he Watergate scandal began early in the morning of June 17, 1972 had been caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents. Nixon took aggressive steps to cover up the crime afterwards, and in August 1974, after his role in the conspiracy was revealed, Nixon resigned. The Watergate scandal changed American politics forever, leading many Americans to question their leaders and think more critically about the presidency. -
invention of the Internet
The internet was invented on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall was November 9, 1989. -
The 9/11 Attacks
The coordinated attacks on the east coast include the twin towers happened on September 11, 2001.