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First Model T car was produced.
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The telegram that brought America into World War I. America learned of its contents February 26, 1917.
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Germany signs an armistice ending the war.
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Women in the U.S. get the right to vote.
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Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic alone.
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The stock market crash began.
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Franklin Roosevelt initiates a plan to stabilize American employment.
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Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany.
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Britain and France avoid war by giving Czechoslovakia to Germany.
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The Germans (Nazis) begin war.
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The Japanese bomb a U.S. naval base.
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Allied forces attack a German controlled beach losing thousands to mere hundreds.
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America ends the war by dropping the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima (first) and Nagasaki (second).
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The United Nations is formed to maintain peace among the nations.
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John D. Clare sends out an 8000-word telegram.
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North American and European states form an intergovernmental military alliance.
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Russians successfully detonate an atomic bomb.
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The U.S. joined forces with the South Koreans during their war against North Korea.
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A supreme court case that concluded with white and black students being in separate schools was unconstitutional.
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The U.S. supported the South Vietnamese against the North Vietnamese during this war.
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Rosa Parks disobeyed the driver's instructions to move to a different seat, so that a white man could sit there.
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This was when the U.S. was trying to put atomic bombs closer to Russia and Russia responded by attempting to put atomic bombs in Cuba.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
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Passed on the 7th it didn't become effective until the tenth.
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America became the first country to step onto another planetary-like body.
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President Nixon had spies wiretap phones and steal documents to help him win reelection.
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President Nixon was almost certainly going to be impeached, so he resigned before it could happen.
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First created in 1983 the internet would evolve into its more modern form by 1990.
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The Berlin Wall was finally destroyed after 38 years.
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Four planes were hijacked and three destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, while the fourth landed in a field in Pennsylvania that was targeting an unknown place.