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The invention of the Model T
https://corporate.ford.com/articles/history/the-model-t.html
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The Zimmermann Telegraph
https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-zimmermann-telegram The Germans attempted to send a coded telegraph to their Mexican ambassador saying that if the US should enter the war, the ambassador was to speak to the Mexican president to ask them to attack the US. -
The WWI Armistice
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/armistice
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The 19th Amendment
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/amendment-19
Women were granted the right to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
The first successful trans-Atlantic airplane flight
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Black Thursday
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blackthursday.asp
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The New Deal
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/new-deal
the series of programs set in motion to help americans -
Hitler becomes chancellor
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The Munich Pact
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/munich-pact-signed
avoided war, but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest -
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D-Day
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
One of the attacks that turned the war against the germans -
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The formation of United Nations
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The Korean War
https://www.history.com/topics/korea/korean-war
Americans got involved because they saw it as a war on communism itself. -
The Watergate Break-ins
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Brown v Board of Education
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/347us483
Law case on racial segregation within schools. Argued Dec 9-11 1952, Re-argued Dec 7-9 1953. Decided May 17, 1954 -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rosa-parks-ignites-bus-boycot
Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man -
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/gulf-of-tonkin
Two US fighter planes fired upon Vietnamese forces, prompting the start of the war -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html
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The invention of the Internet
https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet
After many years of scientific contributions, the first computer to computer message was sent. -
Nixon’s Resignation
https://www.archivesfoundation.org/documents/richard-nixon-resignation-letter-gerald-ford-pardon/
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The Vietnam War
https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
When people were told they could cross, hundreds went to the wall. Some were able to cross freely and others chipped away at the wall with various tools -
The 9/11 Attacks
https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/9-11-attacks
One of the scariest days in US history that brought the country together for a short time. -
Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid 19: a flu like illness with a more than 90% survival rate that shut down countries because of what was more than likely a politically powered front to hide bigger things.
