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The invention of the Model T
The first production Model T Ford was completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
the British intercepted and deciphered a message from Berlin in order to bring America to the aid of the Allies -
The WWI Armistice
The fighting in World War I came to an end after the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany. -
The 19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution bands the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of gender -
The formation of United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
The aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Black Thursday
This was known as Black Thursday, it marked the first day of the crash with panic selling ensuing on the Dow Jones. This was triggered by predictions of an impending market crash, leading to a record 13m shares being traded. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. -
Adolf Hitler is named chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
The Munich Pact
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. -
Hitler Invades Poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was the instagater of the attack -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
D-Day
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II -
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Aug 6, 1945 – Aug 9, 1945 -
The Long Telegram
Practical deductions from standpoint of US policy. They received back an 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan, an Embassy official. This has become known as "the Long Telegram" -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called The formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
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June 25, 1950 – Jul 27, 1953
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Brown v Board of Education
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. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
In Montgomery, Alabama, Rossa Parks refused to obeythe 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. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America. I took place from Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
JFK’s Assassination
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia esolution,was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans to another planet/moon were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. -
The Watergate Break-ins
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men. -
Nixon’s Resignation
The Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. He resigned befofe impeach and removal him from office. After his resignation, he was issued a pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford. -
The invention of the Internet
ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. -
The 9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States.