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The Confederacy surrenders to the Union.
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Guglielmo Marconi sent and received the first radio signal in Italy.
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The Wright brothers launch, fly, and land the first plane.
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Henry Ford introduces the Model T
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Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, WWI is imminent.
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An armistice is signed, bringing the war to an end.
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Over production, the dust bowl as well as other factors in other countries lead to a worldwide depression.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Britain and the U.S. declare war on Japan the following day.
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The first room sized computer (occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons)
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes, Harry S. Truman takes his place.
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The German forces surrender.
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Hiroshima is hit with an atomic bomb. Nagasaki follows three days later.
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The Japanese forces surrender.
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The Republic of Korea (South Korea), and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) engage in war. The UN backs the south, while China and the Soviets back the north
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The Vietnam war begins.
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Kruschev announces the removal of missiles from Cuba.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to protest the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson begins the Civil Rights Movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
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The first American Moon landing.
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Nixon resigns due to the Watergate scandal.
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Saigon falls, Viet Cong win.
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Economic policies regarding supply-side economics (trickle-down)
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Response to Irag's invassion of Kuwait. Went until early 1991.
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The Simon Personal Communicator is released by IBM before the term "smart phone" is even coined.
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Google is created.
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Four planes are hijacked in America. Two are crashed into the Twin Towers, one crashed into the pentagon, and one crashed in PA.
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The US invades Afghanistan.
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In response to the 9/11 attacks, the US led an offensive into Iraq aimed at removing Saddam Hussein.
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Steve Jobs announces the first iPhone.
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The Iraq War ends.
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American presence continues in Afghanistan. (2015 - present)
