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The invention of the Model T
It was invented by Henry ford. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. -
The WWI Armistice
It was the ceasefire that ended hostilities between the Allies and Germany. -
The 19th Amendment
Representative James R. Mann wrote the 19th amendment. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
Black Thursday
this is considered the first day of the stock market crash in 1929. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
Hitler attained power in March 1933 after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933, granting him expanded authority. -
The Munich Pact
permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. -
The New Deal
from 1933 to 1939 -
Hitler Invades Poland
this lead to ww2 -
Pearl Harbor
the pearl harbor attack was a surprise attack by Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. -
D-Day
Normandy landings -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
The formation of United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security. -
The Long Telegram
it was an 8,000 word telegram. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
The formation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
The Korean War
fought between north Korea and south Korea. -
Brown v Board of Education
Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954 -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War
Nov 1, 1955 – Apr 30, 1975 -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962 -
JFK’s Assassination
His last words were "no you certainly cant" in response to "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you" -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. -
The Watergate Break-ins
police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Evidence linked the break-in to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
North Vietnamese warships purportedly attacked United States warships -
Nixon’s Resignation
Richard Nixon's resignation speech -
The invention of the Internet
Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
The 9/11 Attacks
9/11 were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States -
Covid-19 Pandemic
December 12, 2019 A cluster of patients in Wuhan, Hubei Providence, China begin to experience shortness of breath and fever.