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The invention of the Model T
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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The WWI Armistice
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The 19th Amendment (U.S. women’s suffrage)
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Charles Lindbergh’s Flight (first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
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Black Thursday (stock market crash)
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The New Deal (start of Roosevelt's policies)
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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The Munich Pact (appeasement with Hitler)
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Hitler Invades Poland
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Pearl Harbor Attack
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki (Atomic bombings)
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D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
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The formation of the United Nations
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The Long Telegram (by George Kennan)
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The formation of NATO
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Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
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The Korean War
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Brown v. Board of Education (Supreme Court ruling)
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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JFK’s Assassination
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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The invention of the Internet (early development of ARPANET)
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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 Vietnam War
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The 9/11 Attacks
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Covid-19 Pandemic