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Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
Klaus Fuchs gave Russians the atomic bomb -
The invention of the Model T
the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. In the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. -
The WWI Armistice
armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany. -
The 19th Amendment
U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Black Thursday
when panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor -
The Munich Pact
The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Hitler Invades Poland
the Poland Campaign, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, -
D-Day
World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
The formation of United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that was tasked to maintain international peace and security -
The Long Telegram
They received back an 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan, an Embassy official. -
The Korean War
the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
Brown v Board of Education
as a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
JFK’s Assassination
JFK was in a parade and got assassinated -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -
The Watergate Break-ins
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters -
Nixon’s Resignation
By late 1973, the Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam. -
The invention of the Internet
ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
when they took done the Berlin wall. -
The 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,