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Invention of the Model T
Henry Ford's first production is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue in Detroit. -
Zimmerman Telegram
Sent by the Foreign Ambassador of Germany to Mexico in the form of a coded telegram. -
The WWI Armistice
Germany signs the armistice agreement with the Allies, ending WWI. -
Ratification of the 19th Amendment
It gave women the right to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh's Flight
Lindbergh was a famous aviator and the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone nonstop. -
Black Thursday
Panicked investors traded a then-record number of shares on the New York Stock Exchange, making the stock market crash and causing the Great Depression. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg nominates Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party) as chancellor of Germany. -
The New Deal is Lauched
The New Deal was a series of federal programs launched by FDR after taking office in 1933. -
The Munich Pact
The agreement between France, Italy, Germany, and Britain where Hitler agreed to not use his military power in the future in exchange for keeping the Czechoslovakia land he had conquered. -
Hitler Invades Poland
The German-Soviet Pact stated that Poland would be subdivided between the two nations (Russia and Germany) and this allowed Hitler's army to invade Poland, defeating the Polish Army within weeks. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base Pearl Harbor. -
D-Day
More than 160,000 Allied troops land on the heavily fortified French coastline to fight Germany. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The United States of America drops a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima during the final stage of WWII -
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
The United States of America drops a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city Nagasaki during the final stage of WWII -
The Formation of the United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and it replaced the inefficient League of Nations. -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan outlines his opinions and views on the Soviet Russians through this 8,000 word telegram he sent to the Department of State. -
The Formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance. -
Russians Acquire the Atomic Bomb
The Soviets successfully tested their first atomic weapon called RDS-1, or "First Lightning." -
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The Korean War
It began when North Korea invaded South Korea, which prompted the United Nations--The US as the principal force-- to aid the Southerns. -
Brown v. Board of Education
A landmark Supreme Court case in which the court declared it unconstitutional for there to be separate public schools for blacks and whites. -
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The Vietnam War
The longest war in US history, it was the struggle to keep North Vietnam and communism from overtaking South Vietnam. -
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat
She refuses to obey the bus driver who orders her to give her seat in the colored section to a white passenger. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union over the installation of nuclear armed Soviet missiles in Cuba, but 90 miles from US shore. -
JFK's Assassination
He was shot twice and killed in Dallas, Texas; an hour later, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
It was a joint resolution that the US Congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. It gave President Johnson the authority to take any measures he believed necessary to retaliate against North Vietman -
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
The American spaceflight that landed the first three human on the Moon: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. -
The Watergate Break-ins
Several burglars were caught breaking into the Watergate building in Washington D.C.and found to be connected with President Nixon's election campaign; they were found trying to steal secret documents and wiretapping phones and even though historians don't know if Nixon really was connected to them, he took serious steps to cover it up afterwards. -
Nixon's Resignation
After his actions of trying to covering up the Watergate scandal being connected to him came to public light, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal of office. -
Invention of the Internet
The earliest form, ARPANET is created, and from there, the researchers assemble "networks of networks" until it became the modern Internet. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
It was torn down by the Germans as a symbol of the fall of the East German communist government and it now enabled East Germans to freely enter West Germany now. -
The 9/11 Attacks
They were a series of four coordinated attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the United States.
