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Ford Model T invention
One of the most popular American cars for its cheap price and reliability, Ford first produced the Model T production model on August 12, 1908, and sold over 15,000 within days of production. -
Zimmermann Telegram
This telegram was a top secret diplomatic communication from Germany that proposed a military alliance between them and Mexico if the United States would have entered WWI. It promised that Germany would help Mexico recover the territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, but the British had intercepted this message and brought it to light. -
Armistice of 11/11/1918
The Armistice of November 11, 1918, ended the fighting on all fronts in WWI. -
19th Amendment
The day the 19th Amendment was adopted. The amendment says the right of US citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or Senate due to gender, and Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
Charles Lindbergh's cross-Atlantic flight
Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field to fly across the Atlantic for Paris, France. The flight took 33 1/2 hours to complete, and he landed at Le Bourget Aerodrome in Paris. -
Black Thursday
This black Thursday refers to the Wall Street crash of 1929. This crash, along with the London Stock Exchange crash, marked the start of the Great Depression. -
The New Deal
This was a series of projects instituted during the Depression by FDR which were meant to restore American prosperity and stabilize the economy while he was in office. -
Hitler comes to power
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The Munich Pact
Agreed between France and Nazi Germany, this agreement stated that the French wouldn't give military support to Czechoslovakia in the coming German occupation of what was called "Sudetenland", which dishonored the French-Czechoslovak alliance. -
Hitler invades Poland
The invasion of Poland by Germany had marked the start of WWII, and started on September 1 and lasted until October 6, 1939. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
This brutal attack by the Japanese certainly got a point across to America and caused the US to join WWII. The Arizona, California, Maryland, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia were sank that day and nearly 2,400 lives lost along with almost 2,000 injured. -
The Normandy Landings (D-Day)
The Allied invasion of Normandy. The invasion was code-named Operation Neptune and became the largest invasion in history. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed with atomic bombs on August 6 (Hiroshima) and 9 (Nagasaki), 1945. Although the bombing of Hiroshima had no influence on Japan's fighting spirit, Nagasaki's bombing caused the Japanese to rethink the option of surrendering. The Japanese ended up surrendering on August 14. -
The UN forms
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The Long Telegram (Article X)
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NATO forms
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Russians acquire the atomic bomb
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Invention of the Internet
The idea of the internet came from the development of computers in the 1950s. The internet we know today, the World Wide Web (www. sites), came to light inn 1980s and has grown ever since. -
The Korean War
The war between North and South Korea lasted from June 6, 1950, to July 27, 1953. Korea split after the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, and both governments of each Korea claimed to rule the entire Korean country. The heat between the conflict boiled over into combat when North Korea, being backed by China and the Soviets, invaded South Korea. The fighting lasted for about 3 years until an armistice was signed on July 27, 1953, creating the demilitarized zone to split both Koreas. -
Brown v the Board of Education
This court confrontation was a highly important Supreme Court case which caused the US to make separate schools for whites and blacks unconstitutional. The case had lasted from December 9, 1952, to May 17, 1954. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict between North and South Vietnam. The North was supported by China and the Soviets, and the South by the US, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand, and almost every other anti-communism ally. The conflict lasted for almost 20 years until it ended on April 30, 1975, with the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. North and South Vietnam were rejoined the next year. -
Rosa Parks' bus seat refusal
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Cuban Missile Crisis
This confrontation lasted 13 days (October 16-28, 1962) between the US and Soviet Union. The CMC started when the US deployed ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey and the Soviets deployed missiles in Cuba in response. The confrontation was so heated that it almost resulted in a world wide nuclear war. The conflict ended on October 28, 1962, when the Soviets agreed to dismantle the missiles and planes and take them off Cuba and the US did the same in Turkey. -
JFK's assassination
JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Not even an hour and a half later, Lee was arrested by the Dallas PD, but was then shot by Jack Ruby on November 24. Oswald was convicted of Kennedy's murder, and Ruby was convicted of Oswald's murder. Ruby later died in prison while he was waiting for a new trial. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Southeast Asia Resolution)
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution that the US Congress passed on August 10, 1964, as a response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. This resolution is significant because it gave President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization to use conventional military force in Southeast Asia without a declaration of war. -
Apollo 11 moon landing
The Apollo 11 landing craft touched down on the moon on July 20, 1969, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in the landing craft and Michael Collins orbiting the moon in the Columbia command module. Armstrong stepped out of the landing craft and onto the moons surface 6 hours after touchdown on July 21 and famously described the even as "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Buzz and Neil collected 47.5 pounds of lunar rock, and the Apollo 11 crew landed in the Pacific on July 24. -
Watergate Break-ins (Watergate Scandal)
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that eventually led to President Nixon almost getting impeached from office. The break-in by Bernard Baker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, James McCord Jr., and Frank Sturgis at the Democratic National Committee HQ led to an investigation of the Watergate facility. This investigation led to the discovery of abuses of power by Nixon administration members, Nixon's attempts to cover up the scandal, and the resignation of Nixon. -
Nixon's resignation
Due to the discovery of the events of the Watergate scandal (see previous time stamp for info on the Watergate scandal), Nixon faced certain impeachment because of his attempts to cover up the scandal. Because impeachment was practically unavoidable in his eyes, President Richard Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
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9/11 Attacks
These attacks were coordinated by the terrorist group al-Qaeda. Two planes were taken towards and hit the Twin Towers, one hit the Pentagon, and one crashed in a field headed towards D. C. in Stonycreek Township. The planner of this attack and head of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, was hunted down to Pakistan and killed by SEAL Team Six in May 2011. The attacks caused nearly 3,000 deaths and over 6,000 injuries and has been recognized as the deadliest terrorist attack in history.
