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The Invention of the model T
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Zimmer Telegram
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US History B Timeline
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The WW1 Armistice
World war 1 comes to an end, the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany. -
The 19th Amendment
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Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
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Black Thursday
The first of the stock market crash of 1929 -
Hitler becomes chancellor
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The New Deal
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The Munich Pact
British and French prime ministers with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Hitler Invades Poland
1.5 million german soldiers invade Poland, along with U boats and the bombing of Polish airfields. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese forces bomb American naval base on Hawaiian territory -
D-Day
the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi powers. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Hiroshima & Nagasaki were bombed on the 6th and the 9th of August, respectively. -
The formation of United Nations
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The Long Telegram
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The formation of NATO
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Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
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The Korean War
Korean war begins -
Brown v Board of Education
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The Vietnam War
Nov 1, 1955 – Apr 30, 1975 -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962 Soviet missile bases are found set up in Cuba -
JFK’s Assassination
The president is assassinated as he rode in a motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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The Watergate Break-ins
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Nixon’s Resignation
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The invention of the Internet
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The 9/11 Attacks
A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001