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The Invention of the Model T
On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. -
The Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office that stated a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. In the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. -
The WWI Armistice
Ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany. -
The 19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Black Thursday
When panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange, and investors suffered $5 billion in losses. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
President Paul Von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
The New Deal
A series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. -
The Munich Pact
The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
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Hitler Invades Poland
An invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States dropped the bombs over Japan after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. -
The formation of United Nations
The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the 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
Kennan responded on February 22, 1946, by sending a 8,000 telegram from Moscow to Secretary of State James Byrnes outlining a new strategy for diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. -
The formation of NATO
The Western Nations Join Forces. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
he Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or "First Lightning", at Semipalatinsk on August 29, 1949. -
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The Korean War
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. -
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Brown v Board of Education
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. -
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The Vietnam War
War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, with U.S. involvement ending in 1973. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest on December 1, 1955 sparked the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
JFK’s Assassination
Assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. -
The Watergate Break-ins
The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking into the DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex on Saturday, June 17, 1972. -
Nixon’s Resignation
By late 1973, the Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. After his resignation, he was issued a controversial pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford. -
The invention of the Internet
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
The 9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.