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The invention of the Model T
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The Zimmerman Telegram
was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office, that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. -
The WWI Armistice
Was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany. -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th amendment granted 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
panicked investors sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging 11 percent at the open in very heavy volume. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
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The Munich Pact
An agreement between Britain and Germany, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia in which German-speaking peoples lived. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Hitler Invades Poland
The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii -
D-Day
The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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 responsible for maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and being a center for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
The Long Telegram
Was a review of how the Soviet Union saw the world. -
The formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or "First Lightning" -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. -
Brown v Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
The Vietnam War
Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger while she was seated in the "colored section" of a Montgomery city bus. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
JFK’s Assassination
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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 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. -
The Watergate Break-ins
The Watergate scandal was a major federal political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon -
Nixon’s Resignation
Was an address given by President of the United States Richard Nixon to the American public. It was delivered in the Oval Office of the White House -
The invention of the Internet
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
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
