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History Timeline Of The 20th Century
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Henry Ford introduces Model T
Model T is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company in 1908. It is known to be the first affordable automobile, The Model T made its debut in 1908 with a purchase price of $825.00. Over ten thousand were sold in its first year, establishing a new record. -
Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. -
Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the Hawaiian U.S. naval base on Pearl Harbor. Everyone in the U.S who was Japanese, where guilty until proven innocent even people who lived in the U.S for many years were considered terrorists, so they were sent to internement camps or were forced to go back to japan. -
JFK Assassinated
President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, while riding in the presidential motorcade. Accused of committing the John F Kennedy assassination was Harvey Lee Oswald. Lyndon Johnson took over as president of the U.S and the Vietnam war was there and America got heavily involved in it. -
New Plague Identified as AIDS
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Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially
