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The invention of the Model T
The Model T was an Automobile that was invented by Henry Ford. It was highly prized among the people of America for being cheap, enduring, versatile, and had easy maintenance. the first Model T was built on October 1, 1908. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was a telegram that Germany sent to Mexico that proposed a military alliance in the event of America joining WW 1 that was intercepted and decoded by the British. -
The WW 1 Armistice
This was the document that officially ended WW 1. WW 1 ended with the total and un conditional surrender of Germany to the Allies. the three major powers that were involved in writing the treaty was America, France, and Great Britain. -
The 19th Amendment
This was the Amendment that allowed women the right to vote. This right was also known as Women's Suffrage. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
When Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean in his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, it changed the world because it made the huge vastness of the ocean into a easy crossing and it made the world see that there was a major future in the world of flight. The flight path of Charles Lindbergh’s flight was to fly from New York, New York to Paris, France, the flight took him a total of thirty-three hours to complete. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday, also known as Black Tuesday (I don't know why), was the day that started the events that triggered the Great Depression. It all started with the New York Stock Exchange. The stock prices did not fully recover until late 1954. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series if bill's and act's that were passed during FDR's Presidency that were designed to help the economy recover from the Great Depression by providing jobs for the people through the Government. The New Deal did not really bring America out of the Great Depression, given enough time it actually would have worsened the Depression. -
Hitler Becomes Chancelor
When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany it signified a major shift in power although no one knew about it yet. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series if bill's and act's that were passed during FDR's Presidency that were designed to help the economy recover from the Great Depression by providing jobs for the people through the Government. The New Deal did not really bring America out of the Great Depression, given enough time it actually would have worsened the Depression. -
The Munich Pact
this is what got WW 2 into action, when Hitler invaded Poland and conquered it in less than a month. but it also got France and England to declare war on Germany on September 3 1939. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, was attacked by Japanese torpedo and bomber planes on December 7, 1941, at 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time. The sneak attack sparked outrage in the American populace, news media, government and the world. On December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the American Congress, and the nation, to detail the attack. -
The formation of United Nations
The Formation of the United Nations, 1945. On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks on the Empire of Japan during World War II (WWII). The United States and the Allies were fighting against Japan and slowly winning. -
The Long Telegram
The 'Long Telegram' was sent by George Kennan from the United States Embassy in Moscow to Washington, where it was received on February 22nd, 1946. The telegram was prompted by US inquiries about Soviet behavior, especially with regards to their refusal to join the newly created World Bank and International Monetary Fund. In his text, Kennan outlined Soviet belief and practice and proposed the policy of 'containment,' making the telegram a key document in the history of the Cold War. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
In September 1949 the Western world learned that the Soviet Union had exploded an atomic bomb. US government officials had predicted that it would take the Soviet Union a decade to develop atomic weapons. -
The formtion of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. -
The invention of the Internet
The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. Initial concepts of packet networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, Great Britain, and France. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union also gave some assistance to the North. -
Brown v the Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October 1962. When the Soviet Union secretly put nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba, it nearly started a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The missiles were discovered by routine spy-plane surveillance. -
JFK’s Assassination
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, and was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. A ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission from November 1963 to September 1964 concluded that Oswald acted alone. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Lunar Landing Mission. Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. -
The Watergate Break-ins
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's administration's subsequent attempt to cover up its involvement. After the five burglars were caught and the conspiracy was discovered, Watergate was investigated by the United States Congress. -
Nixon’s Resignation
President Nixon’s Resignation. Richard Nixon is the only United States president ever to have resigned the office mid-term. Having secured a landslide re-election in November 1972, his resignation on August 9, 1974 came just eighteen months into his second term. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. -
The 9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage.