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An automobile contrived by Henry Ford.
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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.
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The Germans knew they could not win so they opted for peace. They signed the armistice and there was a ceasefire.
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This amendment to the constitution allowed all adult women the right to vote.
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He was the man who completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic ocean.
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This was when the stock market completely crashed on Wallstreet. This event had very devastating effects.
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This was the institution of "government programs" that FDR used to help curb the effects of the Great Depression.
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of the National Socialist Germany.
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This agreement allowed for Germany to annex those countries which had high masses of German-speaking people; countries such as czechlosovzkia.
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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.
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Japan attacks American base in Hawaii.
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This is when the Allied troops "launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II." ~wikepedia
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These were two atomic bombs that were dropped by the U.S. over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The United Nations was a group of Countries that came together after WWII based on similar points to Wilson's League of Nations.
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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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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.
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This war was between North and South Korea.
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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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This was a war between North and South Vietnam.
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"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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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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John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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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
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This was the first manned mission to land on the moon.
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During this event, 5 men broke into Democratic National Committee head quarters.
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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.
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This event meant that those in East and West Berlin were able to travel freely between the two places.
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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.
