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The Zimmerman Telegram- 1917
It was a message sent by the Germans offering the Mexicans the land they had lost to the United States if they joined the Germans -
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1918 Flu Pandemic
This was a disastrous influenza strain called H1N1 that lasted two years and killed 50,000,000 people and infected 500,000,000 people. It was spread around by soldiers returning home from the Europe battleground. -
The WWI Armistice
It was the start of peace with the Germans after four years of war and millions of deaths. -
Ford's Model T Car
As the first mass distributed car and household brand in the auto industry, it led the way in mass transportation and better roads. -
The 19th Amendment
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." - The Constitution
Pressed for by the progressive suffragettes. -
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Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre)
These were a series of attacks on black neighborhoods in Tulsa from white mobs which ended up with 36 deaths. -
British Broadcasting Corporation Founded
It was started as a public broadcasting radio mixed with music and news. Right now it is owned by Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport in the UK. -
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Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
While it wasn't the first flight across the Atlantic, it was the first solo flight across the Atlantic and from America that lasted 34 hours. -
Black Thursday
It was the start of the Wall Street 1929 crash and the Dow Jones dropped 75 points or 25%. -
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Adolf Hitler's Rise to Power
He appealed to the German people by making them as an elite race and telling people to take back "their" land (taken by other countries) to create a Fatherland. In addition, he promised to bring Germany out of the Depression. -
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The New Deal
It was an initiative created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to create more jobs by programs such as the US Travel Bureau, CCC, CWA, and FSA. -
The Munich Pact
"It was a settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of western Czechoslovakia" -
Hitler Invades Poland
It was the invasion of Poland led by false accusations from Germany's propaganda ministry on Poland attempting to side with allies to encroach Germany. This started World War 2 one week after the Germany's treaty with the Soviet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
It was the watershed event that pushed the United States into World War 2. The Japanese Army bombed the harbor in Hawaii and killed 2403 army members and civilians. -
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Russia and the Atomic Bomb
"The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or "First Lightning" (codenamed "Joe-1" by the United States)"- atromicheritage.org -
D-Day
This is another watershed which turned the tide of the war for the allied powers through amphibious attacks, paratroopers, and bombers. This penetrated Hitler's Atlantic Wall and -
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
These were two atomic bombs dropped on Japan to threaten the Japanese government into surrendering. This was a very controversial move since it killed many civilians in the process. -
United Nations Created
Founded in San Francisco, the United Nations includes all countries of the world except for Kosovo and Taiwan. It was meant to be a peacekeeping and humanitarian organization but has now become more of a mass political power. -
The Long Telegram
"George Kennan, the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union"- history.com -
The formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is another peacekeeping wing of international military regulation consisting of 28 countries. -
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The Korean War
Korea was in two pieces- one side was communist and one side was willing to be democratic. The Allies were fighting this war in an attempt to crush the communist revolution in the North. -
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Brown Vs. Board of Education
It was a ruling that made racial segregation in schools across the United States that got rid of the "Separate but Equal" statement. -
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The Vietnam War
"The United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam's government and military since Vietnam's partition into the communist North and the democratic South in 1954. "
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"March 1965: President Johnson launches a three-year campaign of sustained bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Operation Rolling Thunder. " - history.com -
Rosa Parks
She refuse to give up her seat for a white person. She stood up against the odds and became a driving force of civil rights. Just her one action, led to a nationwide boycott of the bus system. Just from here one person protest she revolutionized a -
The Invention of the Internet and World Wide Web
First created by Tim Berners Lee in Switzerland around the 1960s, the internet has transformed the entire way we live and conncect. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This scare frightened Americans for a little over a month when several missile sites created by the Soviet Union popped up in Cuba. -
John F. Kennedy's assassination
His assassination was a shock to America which happened on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly was the person who killed him. However, many people suspect the CIA was behind it because JFK threatened to get rid of the CIA and expose a "plan to enslave every man women and child". -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This bill which was passed by Congress was seen as a necessary step to bring peace to Southeast Asia. Richard Nixon saw the war powers in the bill given to the military as unconstitutional -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins this mission by NASA sent them to the moon and back. This was a historical landmark in space missions and gave America a lead in the First Space Race. -
Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a scandal during and after the 1972 Presidential Election in which campaign managers of Nixon would sneak into the DNC headquarters. -
The Berlin Wall Falls
"Five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. " - bbc.com -
Yugoslavia is broken into different countries
"After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart, but the unresolved issues caused bitter inter-ethnic Yugoslav wars." - wikipedia.com -
The 9/11 attacks
Leaving 2977 dead and being one of the biggest acts of terrorism against America, this renewed American patriotism and defined what it meant to be American. -
Hurricane Katrina
Causing 1800 deaths and billions of dollars in damage, Hurricane Katrina only is challenged by Hurricane Harvey . Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans with 170 MPH winds and many feet of rain -
Coronavirus (COVID19)
It began in China on December 31, 2019 and spread around the world like wildfire. Now more than a year later lock downs, face masks, and social distancing are the new normal. There have been 86.8 million cases and 1.88 million deaths worldwide.
