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The invention of the Model T
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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The WW1 Armistice
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The 19th Admendment
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Charles Lindebergh's Flight
On May 20, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh left Long Island's Roosevelt Field in a single-engine plane built by Ryan Airlines. The plane, named the Spirit of St. -
Black Thursday
On October 24, 1929, as nervous investors began selling overpriced shares en masse, the stock market crash that some had feared happened at last. A record 12.9 million shares were traded that day, known as “Black Thursday.” -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
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The Munich Pact
Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany. -
Hitler Invades Poland
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Pearl Harbor
the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
D-Day
Many soldiers landed and died on Normandy Beach. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima from the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, at 8:15 AM. The second bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki from the Bockscar, also a B-29 bomber, at 11:02 AM. -
The formation of United Nations
Four months after the San Francisco Conference ended, the United Nations officially began. It came into existence after its Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan, an American diplomat living in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word telegram to President Truman's State Department. -
The formation of NATO
.The foundations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were officially laid down on April 4th 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, more popularly known as the Washington Treaty. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
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The Korean War
After five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel. -
Brown v Board of Education
The case that came to be known as Brown v. Board of Education was actually the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools. -
The Vietnam War
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks stands up for her rights by not giving her seat to a white man. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
On October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. -
JFK's Assassination
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This joint resolution of Congress (H.J. RES 1145), dated August 7, 1964, gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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The Watergate Break-ins
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. -
Nixon's Resignation
President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office on August 8, 1974, to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal. -
The invention of the Internet
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Although changes in the GDR leadership and encouraging speeches by Gorbachev about nonintervention in Eastern Europe boded well for reunification, the world was taken by surprise when, during the night of November 9, 1989, crowds of Germans began dismantling the Berlin Wall -
The 9/11 Attacks
Terrorists stole a plane and crashed into the twin towers. -
Covid-19 Pandemic