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On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit.
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Ended fighting on land, air, and sea in WWI
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The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote.
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On May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Black Thursday refers to October 24, 1929, when panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange
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a series of programs instituted during the great depression by President Franklin D. Roosesvelt.
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agreement between France and Nazi Germany, that France would not provide military assistance to Czechoslovakia.
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The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. 1940-1949
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When Japanese navy air service attacked Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor brought the United States into WWII. I think that in a sense, Pearl Harbor was a huge mistake on the Axis side.
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When allied forces invaded northern France by beach landings.
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The formation of NATO occurred on April, 4 1949 in Washington, D.C. NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 north American and European countries.
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities: Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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The formation of United Nations occurred on October 24, 1945 in San Francisco, CA. The United Nations was created to maintain international peace and security.
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"The Long Telegram" was a 8,000 word telegram sent by George Kennan.
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War between North and South Korea following a series of clashes along the boarder. June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
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The U.S. aid in Vietnam's Civil War.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus. she was arrested
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13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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When President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated.
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a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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First manned mission to land on the Moon!
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Major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970's, following a break in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
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Nixon's resignation because of the Watergate scandal
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The internet was created. ARPANET
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at the end of the Cold War the Berlin was taken down and citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist.