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A secret proposal for a military alliance between Germany and Mexico during WWI. It said that if the United states entered the war against Germany, they would help Mexico recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
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The armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending WWI. It ended fighting on land, sea, and air between the Allies and Germany and was signed at Le Francport.
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Granted women the right to vote in the United States
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Charles Lindbergh successfully completed the first solo, transatlantic flight and the first nonstop flight between New York to Paris in his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis
Lindbergh lands at Le Bourget Field in Paris, successfully completing the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight and the first ever nonstop flight between New York to Paris. His single-engine monoplane, The Spirit of St. Louis, had lifted off from Roosevelt Field in New York 33 1/2 hours before. -
The beginning of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 which was the stock market crash that began the Great Depression.
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Hitler attains power after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 giving him expanded authority
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a series of programs, published work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Rosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939 as an attempt to end The Great Depression
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Also called the Munich Agreement or Munich Betrayal, it was an agreement concluded by Nazi Germany, The United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia
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The German army launched an invasion of Poland under Adolf Hitler. The battle only lasted about a month for Poland before Nazi victory. This marked the beginning of WWII.
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a surprise military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. This led the United States to enter World War II.
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The largest seaborne invasion in history. Allied forces launches a combined naval, air, and land assault on Nazi-occupied Normandy, France.
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On August 6 and 9, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, many of whom were civilians. This remains the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
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An intergovernmental organization aimed to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations, formed in San Fransisco, California.
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A 5,500-word telegram response from George F. Kennan in Moscow to Secretary fo State James Byrnes, outlining a new strategy for diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
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An intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries, NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organizations.
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The soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1, and nicknamed "First Lightning."
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A war between North Korea and South Korea. It began when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended unofficially on July 27, 1953 in and armistice.
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the decision of the U.S. supreme court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional
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A conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia that lasted from November 1, 1955 until the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975
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Rosa Parks, an African American woman who later became an American activist in the civil rights movement, refused to give up her seat for a white man on a bus and was arrested
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a one month, and four day confrontation between the united states and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba. it is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
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passed by congress, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed necessary to retaliate and promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia
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The first workable prototype of the internet was came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. it used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network
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The first spaceflight that landed humans on the moon with commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin
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police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. after a break-in which evidence linked to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign
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President Richard Nixon made and address to the American Public from the Oval Office to announce his resignation from presidency due to the Watergate scandal
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It fell in the middle of a wave of revolutions that left the Soviet-led communist bloc teetering on the brink of collapse and helped define a new world order
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a series of coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Quaeda against the United States in which they flew hijacked planes into the Twin Towers
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The COVID-19 pandemic was declared as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization in March of 2020. The virus originated in China and spread to other countries, eventually reaching the United States.
