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The first production of the Model T Ford. Ford built 15 million Model T vehicles.
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It was an agreement that Mexico would be Germany's ally against America if the U.S. joined the Allies. This is one of the reasons why America joined the war.
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This was the end of World War 1. Germany signed the armistice agreement with the Allies.
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This was when the law was passed that women had the right to vote in America
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He was the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. He became famous after his flight.
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Black Thursday is also known as The Wall Street Crash of 1929. It was a huge stock market crash that led to the Great Depression.
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Paul von Hindenburg make Adolf Hitler the Chancellor of Germany. This also made him the leader of the Nazi party.
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt first became President, he created the New Deal to help get Americans jobs again. The New Deal was also to help the economy.
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British Prime minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime minister Edouard Daladier signed the Munich pact with Hitler. The pact was letting Germany have rule over territory in Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler staged a Polish attack on Germany to invoke them to invade poland. The next day, Germany invaded Poland.
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Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing a lot of American soldiers and destroying battleships and airplanes.
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This was the day that the Allies enter France. This was also the Normandy Landings.
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America dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. It happened at the end of World War 2.
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The United Nations was formed to try to prevent another event such as World War 2. It is to help with the cooperation of the countries.
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George Kennan sends the long telegram to the State Department. He told them about how he thought of the Soviet Union
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NATO stands for The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was an organization of different countries to defend against the Soviet Union.
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The U.S. realized that Russia also was developing an atomic bomb. The ideas were given to them by someone who was working with the Americans on their bomb.
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The Korean War was when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations and America joined the war to help South Korea.
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This was when Supreme Court that segregating the blacks and the whites was unconstitutional.
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The war was North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and America
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In Alabama and black woman named Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on a bus. She was arrested because of this.
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This was a crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted thirteen days. The crisis was because there were Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on this day in Dallas, Texas. He was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was what congress passed for the approval for expansion of the Vietnam War.
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This was when the first people ever landed on the moon. They were American astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.
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There were burglaries inside the office of the Democratic National Committee. They were caught trying to steal secret documents. Nixon tried to cover up the scandal.
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President Richard Nixon resigned from office because of the Watergate Scandal. He was also in danger of impeachment.
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When the internet was developed, it started as a weapon in the Cold War to share data.
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The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to separate East and West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was torn down almost 30 years after it was built.
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There were terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers when airplanes were hijacked and crashed into the twin towers. There was also an airplane that hit the Pentagram.