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The Zimmerman Telegram
The telegram sent to Mexico by Germany that signaled the US joining World War 1 -
The WW1 Armistice
The armistice signed, ending the war with the last opponent, Germany -
The 19th Amendment
The Amendment passed that gave equal voting rights to women and men -
The invention of the Model T
The first affordable automobile invented by Henry Ford -
Charles Lindbergh's Flight
The first nonstop transatlantic flight -
Black Thursday
The crash 1929 Wall Street Crash -
Hitler becomes chancellor
The supposed thousand year Reich had begun, but Hitler was not in full power yet -
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The New Deal
Program of short term relief measures designed to relieve the economic weight off agriculture, finance, etcetera -
The Munich Pact
The dispute over Czechoslovakia, between the UK, Germany, France, and Italy was settled -
Hitler invades Poland
This invasion was the start of World War II -
Pearl Harbor
Surprise attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, sinking the USS West Virginia and the USS Arizona and leaving wreckage that is seen below the water even today -
The Formation of the United Nations
The representatives of 26 nations forming to create the United Nations in order to end the rule of the Axis powers -
D-Day
Victory in the Battle of Normandy, resulting in the liberation of Western Europe from the control of Nazi Germany -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The detonation of two nuclear bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, drawing WWII to a close -
The Long Telegram
Telegram sent by George Kennan from the United States embassy in Moscow, Russia, to Washington, observing the aftermath of the Russian Civil War -
The Formation of NATO
12 countries originally signed this treaty to insure that every country was at peace with the other and each country was secure -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
The Russians attempted to build two kinds of atomic bombs - plutonium RDS-1 and uranium RDS-2- and successfully tested these bombs in 1949 -
The Korean War
A powerful force from the Soviet-supported Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) swept south of the 38th parallel into the Republic of Korea -
Brown v Board of Education
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
By refusing to give up her seat, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, helped initiate the civil rights movement -
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The Vietnam War
The only war that the United States lost, and in turn brought the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, resulting in 3 communist countries -
The invention of the Internet
The idea of the Internet was created by Leonard Kleinrock after he published his paper titled, “Information Flow in Large Communication Nets”’ -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war -
JFK's Assassination
The assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on a motorcade with his wife -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A joint resolution that the US Congress passed in August of 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Commander Neil Armstrong and his pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module Eagle, and Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon -
The Watergate Break-ins
A major political scandal was brought to light by 5 burglars at the DNC headquarters, leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon -
Nixon's Resignation
President Nixon was the only president to ever have resigned from office midterm, due to the pushback of the Watergate Scandal -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
This Wall was a physical division between communist Germany to Berlin. When the Wall fell, it was just as instantaneous as its creation -
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. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Additional people died of 9/11-related cancer and respiratory diseases in the months and years following the attacks