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Invention of the Model T
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The Zimmerman Telegram
This was the telegram from Germany to Mexico encouraging them to attack America. As a reward, Germany would help Mexico win back the land that they had lost during the Mexican-American War. -
The WWI Amistice
The Germans knew they could not win so they opted for peace. They signed the armistice and there was a ceasefire. -
The 19th Amendment
This amendment to the constitution allowed all adult women the right to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh's flight
He was the man who completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic ocean. -
Black Thursday
This was when the stock market completely crashed on Wallstreet. This event had very devastating effects. -
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The New Deal
This was the institution of "government programs" that FDR used to help curb the effects of the Great Depression. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Hitler becomes Chancellor of the National Socialist Germany. -
The Munich Pact
This agreement allowed for Germany to annex those countries which had high masses of German-speaking people; countries such as czechlosovzkia. -
Hitler invades Poland
Hitler said this action was in self-defence and/or self preservation, but France and Britain did not beleive them and declared war. This event is what initiated WWII. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks American base in Hawaii. -
D-day
This is when the Allied troops "launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II." ~wikepedia -
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The formation of the United Nations
The United Nations was a group of Countries that came together after WWII based on similar points to Wilson's League of Nations. -
The Long Telegram
This was "an 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan, an Embassy official. This has become known as 'the Long Telegram', and it said exactly what the American government wanted it to. Kennan hated Communism and the Soviet government."
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The formation of Nato
Nato was similar to the United Nations except that it is based on military power between The European countries and a few of the North American countries as well. -
Russians acquire the atomic bomb
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The Korean War
This war was between North and South Korea. -
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Brown v Board of Education
This was a court case in which the federal government declared that the segregation of schools, for example, white students separated from black students, was unconstitutional. -
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The Vietnam War
This was a war between North and South Vietnam. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
"Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation."
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
A period during the Cold War when the tension peaked. This crisis was a "confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba."
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JFK's assassination
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The Gulf Tonkin Resolution
This act was passed in response to The Gulf Tonkin incident. This incident which led to the U.S. more openly participating in the Vietnam WAr -
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
This was the first manned mission to land on the moon.
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The Watergate Breakins
During this event, 5 men broke into Democratic National Committee head quarters. -
Nixon's Resignation
Due to the escalation of the Watergate Scandal, Nixon lost much of his support. Sure that he would be impeached he instead chose to reside from office. -
The invention of the Internet
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
This event meant that those in East and West Berlin were able to travel freely between the two places. -
The 9/11 Attacks
This devastating event occurred when terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the Twin Towers in New York City. There were two other plains that had been hijacked, but these are the best known ones.
