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The invention of the "Model T"
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16th ammendment to the Constitution completed
Income taxes now legal! -
17th ammendment to the Constitution completed
Senators no longer elected by the state, but the people. Federalism damaged. -
19th ammendment to the Constitution completed
Women can now vote! -
Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This assassination, coupled with alliances, caused World War I -
Lenin and the Bolsheviks takes control of Russia
The Red October revolution -
Zimmerman Telegram Dispatched
This telegram from the Germans asks the Mexican to join them in World War I, against the United States -
The Great War Armistice
The fighting stopped, but the treaty of Versailles was later -
Beginning of the first solo transatlantic flight by Charles Lindbergh
He finished the next day. -
Invention of the TV
By Philo T Farnsworth -
"Black Thursday" Wall Street Crash
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The New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's efforts to soften the blow of the Great Depression -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
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Invention of the shopping cart
Shopping Cart invented by Sylvan Goldman -
The Munich Pact
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Invasion of Poland; start of World War Two
Hitler begins his Blitzkrieg campaign. -
"Operation Barbarossa" begins
Hitler attacks the largest country in the world. Ignores another pact. -
Snow falls on Russia -German invasion slowed
One of the Russians greatest assets was the Russian winter. They beat Napoleon by letting him march in with his troops, letting the snow fall and weaken them, and then ambushing them. Hitler followed this pattern. Only Genghis Khan, hundreds of years earlier, was able to succeed. (For more information, read World War II: The Rest of the Story and How It Affects You Today, by Richard Maybury) -
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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Normandy Beach; D-Day
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VE-day
The Nazis vanquished. -
Formation of the United Nations
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Hiroshima destroyed by a single bomb!
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Nagasaki destroyed by a single bomb!
Why only three days after Hiroshima? Remember, communication was not near as fast, nor was it ever imagined by the Japanese that one bomb could destroy an entire city. What reports DID come through to the leaders were confusing. -
VJ-Day
Japan Vanquished. -
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Nuremberg Trials
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Start of the Cold War
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"The Long Telegram" or, "The X Article"
Sent from Mr. X, or George F. Kennan. -
Invention of Fast Food
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Formation of NATO
NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Russians complete a secret test and acquire an atomic bomb
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The Korean War
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Brown vs. The Board of Education
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The American Involvement in the Vietnam War
The war continued for a few more months after the American's left -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
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Cuban Missile Crisis
World almost ends. -
"I Have a Dream" speech given
by Martin Luther King Jr. -
John F. Kennedy's assasination
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1964 Civil Rights Act
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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1965 Voting Rights Act
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Apollo 11 Moon Landing Successful; First Man on the Moon!
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1st Watergate Break-In
Break-in successful; they remain undetected -
2nd Watergate Break-In
This time they were caught. -
Nixon resigns
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Beginning of the fall of the Berlin Wall
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First Gulf War
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Invention of the Internet
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Twin Towers Fall
Terrorists hijack planes and wreck them into important buildings -most famously the World Trade Center (AKA the Twin Towers). -
We have our chance to affect and make history!
Let's do it guys! Let's be the change we wish to see in the world.
