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The Invention of the Model T
the first Model T Ford was completed -
The Zimmerman Telegram
German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman issued a telegraph to Mexico about becoming allies with Germany if the US joined WWI -
The WWI Armistice
the WWI fighting stopped; the Treaty of Versailles was completed six months later, officially ending the war -
The 19th Amendment
gave women the right to vote -
Charles Lindbergh's Flight
Lindbergh flew an airplane across the Atlantic ocean from New York to Paris, France -
Black Thursday
the stock market crashed in the US and began the Great Depression; is also called the Wall Street Crash of 1929 -
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The New Deal
experimental programs instituted during the 1st term of President FDR in response to the Great Depression -
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler becomes head of the government of Germany -
Hitler invades Poland
Hitler and the Germany invaded Poland, leading to Great Britain and France declaring war on Germany two days later -
The Munich Pact
signed by Hitler and British and French prime ministers to avoid war, but it gives Czechoslovakia to Germany -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attacked American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii -
D-Day
Allies invaded Normandy during WWII -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
on the 6th and 9th of August, US dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japan cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Formation of the United Nations
replacing the League of Nations, the UN was designed to negotiate peace and work through conflict during WWI -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan in Moscow sends a 5000 - 8000-word telegram to the US State Department outlining a new diplomatic relations strategy with the Soviet Union -
Formation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization created to stop the expansion of Communism -
Russians acquire the atomic bomb
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The Korean War
began when North Korea invaded South Korea; the United Nations and the US came to South Korea's aid -
Brown v Board of Education
US Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to establish separate public schools for black and white students -
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The Vietnam War
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger -
The Invention of the Internet
J.C.R. Licklider of MIT envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site; the idea of the internet also started during the Cold War as a governmental weapon -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
military and political standoff between the US and Cuba after Cuba received nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union -
JFK's Assassination
President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
the first humans, including Neil A. Armstrong, landed on the moon -
The Watergate Break-ins
burglars connected to Pres. Richard Nixon are arrested in Washington D.C. trying to wiretap phones and steal secret documents -
Nixon's Resignation
President Richard M. Nixon resigned as president after the Watergate break-ins -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Germans living in east Germany could now freely cross into West Berlin -
The 9/11 Attacks
terrorists hijacked four planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in NYC, the Pentagon near Washington D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania