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The Invention of the Model T
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. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
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. -
The WWI Armistice
This was the armistice that ended fighting in World War I between the Allies and their last remaining opponent, Germany. -
The 19th Amendment
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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Charles Lindbergh's Flight
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. -
Black Thursday
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
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. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
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. -
The Munich Pact
The agreement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy
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Hitler invades Poland
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. -
Pearl Harbor
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. -
The Formation of the United Nations
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. -
D-Day
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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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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. -
The Long Telegram
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. -
Russians Acquire the Atomic Bomb
The Soviets Acquired their knowledge of the Nuclear Bombs through spies, and deployed their first one on December 25th, 1946. -
The Formation of NATO
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
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. -
Brown V. Board of Education
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
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. -
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat
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. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
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. -
JFK's Assassination
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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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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. -
The Watergate Break-ins
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. -
Nixon's Resignation
Richard Nixon resigned over accusations of being involved with and/or behind the Watergate Scandal. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
After a string of tumultuous events, the Berlin Wall fell and thousands of people rushed to West Germany. -
The Invention of the Internet
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. -
The 9/11 Attacks
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. -
The Covid-19 Pandemic
