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The Ford Model T was designed to be simple and affordable. Due to the use of newly made assembly line production, the savings were passed on to the customers. This allowed the vehicle to be sold between $260 and $850.
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A telegram from Germany to Mexico attempting to ally the two should the United States join the war. The telegram was intercepted by British intelligence.
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This was the armistice that ended fighting in World War I between the Allies and their last remaining opponent, Germany.
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The 19th Amendment made a huge step in the women's suffrage movement by extending the right to vote to women. It states that the right to vote will not be defined or limited by sex.
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In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to complete a transatlantic flight in a single trip alone, and the first to complete the first ever nonstop flight between New York and Paris.
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The stock market crash of 1929 that began the Great Depression, this remains the largest crash in American History.
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The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939 as a response to the Great Depression.
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Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg. This appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party "in check." It turned out to have disastrous consequences.
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The agreement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy
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September 1, 1939, the German army under the command of Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II.
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The morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese bombers attacked U.S. military and naval forces in Hawaii. The United States suffered 3,435 casualties and severe damages to our naval force.
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On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
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The Allied invasion of Normandy was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations for the end of the war.
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The US detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945. The bombs killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
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In February 1946, George F. Kennan's Long Telegram from Moscow helped articulate the U.S. government's increasingly hard line against the Soviets and became the basis for the U.S. containment strategy toward the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War. -
The Soviets Acquired their knowledge of the Nuclear Bombs through spies, and deployed their first one on December 25th, 1946.
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The North Atlantic Alliance was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War. Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom, all of which was in the context of the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union.
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The Korean War was a fought between North and South Korea from 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.
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In a landmark decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the U.S. Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for students of different races to be unconstitutional.
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The Vietnam War was between Northern and Southern Vietnam, as well as South Vietnam's ally, the US. Vietnam was the longest war in American history and the most unpopular war of the 20th century. It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and in an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths.
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. For doing this, Parks was arrested and fined for breaking the laws of segregation.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through. He was shot from a nearby building by Lee Harvey Oswald, a US Marine veteran.
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It stated that “Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.” The resolution became the subject of massive controversy, and as resistance to the war grew, it was eventually repealed in January 1971.
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The Apollo 11 Moon Landing was the first manned mission to the moon, and achieved the goal of returning safely to Earth. This mission paved the way for the Apollo lunar landing missions to follow.
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The Watergate Scandal surrounded the June 17th, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. President Nixon resigned under accusation of ordering it. -
Richard Nixon resigned over accusations of being involved with and/or behind the Watergate Scandal.
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After a string of tumultuous events, the Berlin Wall fell and thousands of people rushed to West Germany.
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The internet that we know today can be credited to a programmer in Switzerland named Tim Berners-Lee. He established the World Wide Web, and made huge advancements in this field.
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The largest terrorist attack in American History happened on September 11th, 2001. Two planes flown by terrorists crashed into the World Center, and One crashed into the Pentagon. There was a fourth plane. Its passengers saved countless lives by taking back the plane and crashing it into the ground.
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