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Henry Ford makes the Ford Model T, the first car made for middle-class people to afford. This changes transportation forever.
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The Zimmerman Telegram is sent from Germany to Mexico. In it, Germany promises to return several U.S. states to Mexico if Mexico will attack the U.S. Because of this, the U.S. enters WWI
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This event ended WWI, with Germany and the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire) surrendering to the Allied Powers of America< the United Kingdom, Russia and France.
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This Amendment allowed for women to vote in the U.S.
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Charles's Lindbergh flies from Long Island, New York to Paris, France, making him the first person to fly across the atlantic
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the Stock Market crashes, sending the U.S. and Europe into the Great Depression.
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Adolf Hitler is made Chancellor in Germany and begins making socialist and anti-Semitic policies
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U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt makes his "New Deal" which helps create jobs and welfare efforts to help lift America out of the Depression.
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Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich Pact, making Czechoslovakia give it's border regions to Germany.
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Adolf Hitler attacks Poland, starting World War Two in Europe.
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Japan bombs the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii, causing the U.S. to join WWII
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The U.S. and the other Allied Powers launch an invasion on the northern French coastline, driving Hitler and his forces to Paris, where Russian forces await them, ending WWII in Europe
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The U.S. drops nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing Japan to surrender, ending WWII for good.
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China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other countries form the U.N. (United Nations), a world-wide organization working to keep peace in the world.
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George Kennan sends the "Long Telegram" to the State Department, detailing Joseph Stalin's Communist plan for the U.S.S.R, planting the seeds for the Cold War. It's called the Long Telegram because it has 8,000 words.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed by 30 different European and North American countries including The U.S. and the U.K. as way to help secure peace in Europe in and North America
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The Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) makes it's first nuclear bomb, furthering the Cold War
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The U.S. sends troops to help South Korea fight off North Korea's invasion.
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the Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in schools can no longer exist.
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The U.S. helps South Vietnam fight Communist North Vietnam. The war ends in a North Vietnam victory.
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A Black women named Rosa Parks breaks Alabama law by giving giving up her seat in the bus to a white man, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
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in the late 1960s, the first workable prototype of the internet is made, for use by the U.S. Department of Defense, but is now a worldwide network, for communication, research, and entertainment.
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The U.S. and Soviet Union have a standoff as Soviet nuclear missiles are found in Cuba, which are matched by U.S. missiles found in Italy and Turkey
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy is shot while driving through Dallas, Texas
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Congress passes the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" allowing U.S. President Johnson to send troops to Vietnam without declaring war, but still starting the Vietnam War
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The U.S. sends the spaceship "Apollo 11" to the moon, making Lee Armstrong the first man on the moon, and winning the "Space Race" with the Soviet Union.
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A political Scandal in the U.S. involving President Richard Nixon's campaign for re-election, that lead to his resignation.
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the wall diving UN controlled West Germany and Soviet controlled East Germany, is taken down, ending Communism in Germany
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The terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, flies suicide planes into the Twin Towers in New York City, as well The Pentagon, but that attack was subdued. This launches the War on Terror, a Western fight against terrorism
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The first case of the Corona Virus (COVID-19) is reported in Wuhan, China. in the next few months, the world is sent into a global pandemic. You know the rest, hopefully this shit ends soon.