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The Model T was an important vehicle for American history because it was cheap allowing many people to afford and own cars.
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In January of the year 1917, the German Foreign Office sent a proposal for a military alliance with Mexico.
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On November 11, 1918 the Allies and their enemies finally agreed to stop fighting.
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The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.
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On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took a solo flight from New York to Paris.
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On Thursday of October 24, 1929 the stock market crashed which began the Wall Street crash or 1929.
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From 1933 to 1939 President FDR enacted programs, projects, and reforms to help the US recover from the Great Depression.
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On January 30th, 1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler to be the chancellor of Germany.
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On September 30, 1938 an agreement was signed between Germany and Britain which allowed Germany to annex Sudetenland.
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On September 1, 1939, the German army launched an invasion against Poland
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On December 7, 1941 the Japenese attacked the United State's naval base in Pearl Harbor.
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On June 6, 1944 the Allies launched an attack on German-occupied Normandy, France's shores.
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On August 6, 1945 America dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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On August 9, 1945 America dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki
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On October 24, 1945 the United Nations was formed to maintain international peace.
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On February 22, 1946 George Kennan sent a telegram from Russia to the US which was 8,000 words long.
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NATO was formed on April 4, 1949 to provide collective protection from the Soviet Union.
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On August 29, 1949 the Russians dropped their first Atomic Bomb.
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On June 25, 1950 the Korean war began between North and South Korea.
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On December 9, 1952 the ruling began on whether racial segregation in schools is constitutional.
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The Vietnam War was fought by the US in an attempt to contain communism and stop its spread.
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On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a public bus.
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On October 16, 1962 the US engaged with the Soviet Union in a standoff concerning Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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On November 22, 1963 JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave President Johnson the ability to take any measures necessary to retaliate or to keep peace in southeast Asia.
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On July 24, 1969 the Apollo 11 was the first spacecraft to land humans on the surface of the moon.
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On June 17, 1972 Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office Building was broken into. Nixon attempted to coverup his involvement.
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Nixon resigns from the presidency in the face of impeachment.
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On January 1, 1983 the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network adopted Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol and assembled a new network that became the modern internet that we have today.
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The Berlin Wall which was meant to divide Berlin is taken down.
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On September 11, 2001 there were four attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the US.