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Henry Ford introduced his Model T to the world in 1908. -
Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States when the Zimmerman telegram was signed. -
This was a truce between Germany and the allies where fighting stopped between Germany and the allies. -
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
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He was the first person to fly straight from New York to Paris.
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This started the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and Herbert Hoover was president when Black Thursday occurred. -
This refers to a series of domestic programs that were put in place by president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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This was a pact between Britain, France and Germany to avoid war, and it gave Czechoslovakia over to German conquest.
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This was what started World War II when Hitler and Germany decided to invade Poland with the Soviet Union -
This was the end of his invasion and it was one the main causes of World War II. -
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and this marked the start of American military involvement in World War II. -
This brought the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies, in what became known as the largest invasion force in human history. -
This bombing was the first of two bombings on Japan and the bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people. It remains the only time that nuclear weapons were ever used in warfare. -
This was the second atomic bombing in Japan, and between the two bombings 129,000 to 226,000 people, and it effectively ended World War II in the pacific. -
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
George Kennan sent a 5,500 word telegram to James Byrnes outlining the new diplomatic relations that were to be exercised with the Soviet Union. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 27 European countries, 2 North American countries, and 1 Eurasian country. -
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan. The device had a yield of 22 kilotons. -
This was a war that was fought by South Korea and North Korea, and it was the first military action of the Cold War.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was 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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This was a war between the United States and Vietnam. The U.S went to war against them to stop the spread of communism, but foreign policy, economic interests, national fears, and geopolitical strategies also played major roles.
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She was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a bus. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba. John F. Kennedy was the president of the United States of America at the time. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba. It is also called the Caribbean Crisis or the Missile Crisis. -
He was 35th president of the United States. He was assassinated at the age of 46. -
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. -
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on the moon. -
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. -
President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal. -
Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol. -
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. -
The September 11 attacks, also commonly referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States. -
The Covid-19 Pandemic started in 2019, and it is still here today.
