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The invention of the Model T
October 1, 1908 was when Ford created the first model of an automobile which was titled "Model T" and eventually, within the next 19 years, 15 million more would be made, changing transportation forever. -
The Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a diplomatic secret communication issued by the Germans who were trying to form an alliance with Mexico for WWI. -
The WWI Armistice
The WWI Armistice was signed by Germany and prepared by Britain and France that claimed that there would be no more fighting, and there would be peace. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment was the amendment that ratified women's abilites to vote. It stated that a person's ability to vote should not be withheld depending on their gender. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
Charles Lindbergh's flight was an aviator that completed the achievement of flying the first solo flight in 1927. His plane was called "Spirit of St. Louis" and the flight was around paris. -
Black Thursday
This was an event that took place in 1929 when panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange and investors lost almost $5 billion. -
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The New Deal
This was a series of projects and programs instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression that was attempting to result in restoring prosperity in Americans. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
This was when Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. -
The Munich Pact
The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest and was signed between Adolf Hitler and the British and French prime ministers. -
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Hitler Invades Poland.
Hitler invades Poland. -
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Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was a tragic event that got America involved in WWII. It was an attack by Japan because America cut off Japan's oil supply, so they acted quickly and swiftly to get back at America for what they had done. 2403 people died. -
D-Day
D-Day was an invasion on Northern France by allied forces by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This was about the last stage of WWII in which the United States detonated two huge atomic bombs on Japan. -
The formation of United Nations
The United Nations is formed. -
The Long Telegram
The long telegram contains over 8000 words written by George Kennen sent to the Department of State making them aware of his thoughts on the Soviet Union. -
The formation of NATO
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The Korean War
The Korean War was a war fought between North and South Korea and it resulted in it becoming two seperate states with two seperate governments. -
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Brown v Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was 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
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus 60 years ago. Tuesday marks 60 years since 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. -
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 Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was 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
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. The astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body. -
The Watergate Break-ins
In May 1972, as evidence would later show, members of Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President (known derisively as CREEP) broke into the Democratic National Committee's Watergate headquarters, stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office's phones. -
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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ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
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.
