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THE INVENTION OF THE MODEL T
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THE ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM
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THE WWI ARMISTICE
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THE 19TH AMENDMENT
Signed on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920 -
CHARLES LINDENBURG'S FLIGHT
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BLACK THURSDAY
The first day of the stock market crash -
HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR
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THE NEW DEAL
Roosevelt sent to Congress the Emergency Banking Act -
THE MUNICH PACT
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HITLER INVADES POLAND
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PEARL HARBOR
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D-DAY
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HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI
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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
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. -
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THE KOREAN WAR
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BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION
May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional -
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THE VIETNAM WAR
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ROSA PARKS REFUSES TO GIVE UP HER SEAT
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama -
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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 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
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