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The Model T is built by Henry Ford. HE creates an assembly line to mass-produce cars. This is what is known as the Second Industrial Revolution. The assembly line revolutionaries American Industry.
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The stock market crashed this was the beginning of the great depression. Millions of people lost jobs, it was a time of hunger and uncertainy. Roosevelt creates numerous government programs to try and combat this during the following decade.
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December 7 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor WWI was fought 20 years earlier Now Europe and Japan were at war again Japan conducted a sneak attack on Hawaii. This brought us into war.
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U.S. Drops two atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII but this ushered in the nuclear age. After WWII the Cold War begins with the soviet Union. We engaged in a missile race with the Soviet Union for the rest of the country.
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We put a human being on the moon This took a decade of dedicated effort.
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The Berlin Wall is torn down and the Cold War ends. For forty year we had been in in a Cold War with the Soviet Union. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Germany, the cold war came to an end.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus Ushers in the civil rights movement 1964 civil rights legislation was passed 1968 Martin Luther King is assassinated.