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The Invention of the Model T Ford
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The Zimmermann Telegram
German, Arthur Zimmermann sends telegram to Mexico asking for an alliance against America. -
WWI Armistice
The WWI Armistice ended the World War I hostilities on the Western Front -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment was passed giving women the right to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh's Flight
Lindbergh an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Black Thursday
Wall Street crash. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
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The New Deal
At the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington's Capitol Plaza. -
The Munich Pact was Signed
The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Hitler Invades Poland
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Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
The allies invade Normandy. -
Hiroshima and Nagaski
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
The Formation of the United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations. -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan sends “long telegram” to State Department. -
The Formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
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The Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance. -
Brown v Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
The Vietnam War
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Rosa Parks Refuses to give up Seat
in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de octubre), the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, tr. Karibskij krizis), or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
JFK's Assassination
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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The Watergate Break-ins
Former Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident. Five other men plead guilty, but mysteries remain. -
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
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States.