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The first actual running, working car is built in a Ford automobile factory.
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Earnest Sirrine of Chicago, Illinois patented perhaps the first automatic street traffic system in 1910.
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The very first assembly line is created by Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Co. The assembly line cut the time of making a car in half, undoubtedly making cars better and more affordable.
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The sinking of the Lusitania is the only reason that we went to war with France, Britain, and Russia. 128 americans died because a German U-Boat put a torpedo through the starbourd bow, but it was revealled later that the ship was carrying millitary weapons to help the French and other countries.
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The first encounter with more than one nation at a time. Back then they called it the "War to end all wars", now it world war 1. Fighting the Germans before theywere coruppted by the Nazis.
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The 1920s have long been remembered as the "Roaring Twenties," an era of unprecedented affluence best remembered through the cultural artifacts generated by its new mass-consumption economy: a Ford Model T in every driveway.
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The Wall Street crash, more commonly known as black teusday, was the start of an era that should have never been, the Great Deprssion.
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The package of legislative reforms that came to be known as the New Deal permanently and dramatically transformed the politics and economy of the United States. But we never got out of the Great Depression until the start of WWII.
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In 1940, after the invasion of France by the Nazis, Britain is the only Democracy left standing in Europe. We had less than no choice but to join the fight against old uncle Adolf.
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Instead of most people thinking that Americans stormed the Riechstag, it was the Soviets and when I say stormed, I mean a slaughter of Nazis
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It was the case that would change history forever, the desegregation of all schools. North and South, people watched to see what the ruling of the Supreme court would be.
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The first of its kind, the USSR made attelite is launched into space to circle around the world and be the first "Hawk" of the century.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.
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Ceasar Chavez and others formed this organization to make sure that none are disregarded of their rights.
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For thirteen days Americans waited for the sound of sirens to signal that the Cubans have launched the first of many nuclear bombs, but they never did.
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Thousands of East Berliners went to the border crossings. At Bornholmer Strasse the people demanded to open the border and at 10.30 pm the border was opened there.
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In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994.
