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Invention of the Model T
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Zimmermann Telegraph
Germany secretly asks for Mexico's help in WWI in exchange for reclaiming Mexican territory from the US. -
WWI Armistice
Fighting is officially stopped. -
19th Amendment
Women are enfranchised! -
Charles Lindburgh Transatlantic Flight
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Black Thursday
First day of the stock market crash -
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The New Deal
FDR's federal programs attempting to fix the Great Depression. -
Hitler Become Chancellor
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Munich Pact
Germany is allowed to annex Czechoslovakia. -
Hitler Invades Poland
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. -
D-Day
Allied Forces land on five beaches in Normandy, France. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
Atomic bomb is dropped by Americans on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Nagasaki is bombed on Aug. 9, three days later. -
Formation of United Nations
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Long Telegraph
George Keenan sends an 8,000 word telegraph to the Secretary of State concerning US view on Communist Russia. -
Formation of NATO
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Russians Test First Atomic Bomb
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Korean War
North and South Korea are fighting. N is backed by Soviets; S is backed by Americans. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are unconstitutional. -
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Vietnam War
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Rosa Parks Refuses to Move
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Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK announces that Soviet missile sheds have been found in Cuba. -
JFK Assassination
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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Watergate Scandal
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Nixon Resigns
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Invention of the Internet
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9/11 Attacks