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Model T was introduced to the public world in 1908. Henry Ford (the inventor) wanted the Model T to be affordable, simple to operate and very durable.
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A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917.
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The armistice signed at LE Francport near Compiègne that finally ended the fighting on land, sea and air in World War I.
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Passed by Congress on June, 4, 1919, woman were legally given the right to vote.
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Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France.
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This event occurred when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted drastically as soon as trading opened and an unprecedented number of shares changed hands. It's considered the first day of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
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Germany invades Poland, sharing World War II with Europe.
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Hitler attainted power.
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The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D.
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British and French prime ministers, signed the Munich Pact with Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor. A strike from the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service.
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The day in World War II where Allied force invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The Long Telegram warned that the USA had emerged from World War II economically strong and bent on world domination.
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The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.
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he war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.
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A landmark 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, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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he Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
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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.
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Police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Evidence linked the break-in to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.
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President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office on August 8, 1974, to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal. ... Nixon ultimately lost much of his popular and political support as a result of Watergate.
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The Cold War, a global power struggle between dictatorship and democracy, ended in Berlin on November 9, 1989. The course of history, however, was set in motion by decisive events outside the country long before that.
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19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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