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The invention of the Model T
The first, (semi-acceptable) car! Invented by Ford Motor Co. by, guess who? No! It wasn't Henry Ford! Lol, of course I'm only joking, his name is on the freaking company!! -
The Zimmerman Telegram
This Telegram was a message sent from the German foreign office, telling Mexico that if they helped them, Germany would help them get back the land we stole, I mean conquered, from them. A real driving point for America to get started in the war -
The WWI Armistice
It basically was a peace treaty between Germany and the allies, ending fighting on the western front. It went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. -
The 19th Amendment
It was the amendment that granted women the right to vote. This would later be known as woman suffrage. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
What can I say? This was the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic. Totaly Boss!! -
Black Thursday
I know what your thinking, no no no, CC, I think you mean Black Friday.I don't mean Black Friday; it's Black Thursday.Where a bunch of worried investors, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, then the economy crashed, and everybody was depressed. That's just great. -
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The New Deal
Teddy came into office and put things right in the great Depression by stabilizing the economy and providing jobs for many. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
I've got a bad feeling about this... -
The Munich Pact
Edouard Daladier, and Nevil Longbottom. I mean Nevil Chamberlain, sign the Munich Pact, to avert war. But in doing so, they have to give Czechoslovakia to Hitler. -
Hitler Invades Poland
I knew that guy was trouble! Poland didn't even stand a chance, Germany won within weeks of invasion. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed our naval base in Hawaii. We go to war. -
D-Day
The landing of Allied troops in Normandy, code name, operation Neptune. -
Nagasaki
The city where the Fat Man was dropped, the larger of the two... -
Hiroshima
The first atomic bomb dropped on a city, with people still living in it. -
The formation of United Nations
Aka, the peace core! And guess what created it! A war... -
The Long Telegram
George Kennen writing to the secretary of state, Byrnes, about a strategic outline for diplomatic relations to the soviet union. By writing a 8000 word novel?!!? -
The formation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, safeguards of freedom and security. Apparently. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
Remember that thing that was basically the herald of the apocalypse? Yeah, let's have everyone have one of those. At least Puttin couldn't mess with this... -
The Korean War
North Korea invaded south Korea, and the US stuck there nose where it didn't belong. -
Brown v Board of Education
The famous supreme court case in which the supreme court found that having separate schools for colored and white people was unconstitutional. -
The Vietnam War
The longest war in US history. 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Even though Claudette Colvin did it first!!! -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The missile scare, a 13-day scare in which America and Russia yelled at each other for having so many nukes in so many places. -
JFK’s Assassination
Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice... And Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of the crime... But did he actually do it?!? Find out next time on, nutters on tv! -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
It was meant to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in Southeast Asia. And was given to President Johnson. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
You remember this! It was the lunar landing in which Armstrong said,
well, you know the line. -
The Watergate Break-ins
Nixon broke into the Watergate break-in, and tried to cover it up! Well technically not him, but he was involved! -
Nixon’s Resignation
finnaly! a face we can trust! Instead of being impeached, he decided just to resign. -
The invention of the Internet
Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented it, huh, that odd. I've never actually heard of the internet, sounds familiar but... Oh well, probably wasn't important anyway. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
This was the ending of the tyrannical rule of the Russian government; this wall was built by, who again? Trump, Puttin? Khrushchev! What kind of name is that! It was put in place by... Khrushchev... -
The 9/11 Attacks
I'm not even going to try to make a joke about this; it was terrible!