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The first production is completed and unveiled.
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The telegram is sent in January. "German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admitted the telegram was genuine on March 3 (wikipedia)." This helps get the U.S involved in WW1.
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The armistice is signed.
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For the first time, women can vote.
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Lindbergh takes off- the flight lasts 33.5 hours. It's the first time someone flew non-stop from New York to Paris.
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Black Thursday helps "kick off" the Great Depression.
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This occurred in three waves, from 1933 to 1939
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An agreement between Britian, France and Germany that stalls the start of the war. However, in the deal Germany acquires Czechoslovakia.
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The Japanese surprise and bomb Pearl Harbor. The next day, Congress approves the President's call for war on Japan.
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Begins the Battle of Normandy.
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Hiroshima is bombed on August 6- Nagasaki is bombed on the 9th
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It became effective.
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"George Kennan, the American charge d’affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state (history.com)." This greatly affected U.S policy during the Cold War.
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(Western) leaders meet in D.C to sign the North Atlantic Treaty.
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The Russians successfully set off their first atomic bomb.
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The war ended in July.
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The Supreme Court declares racial segregation in education as unconstitutional.
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This event helps spark a civil rights movement.
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The first idea of the internet is proposed, addressing the military concern that if telephone lines are targeted by the enemy, communication will be down.
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Happened in October. Missiles are installed in Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of Florida. A tense month between the U.S and the Soviets begins. In the end, the Cuban missiles are disarmed when the U.S promises not to invade Cuba, and removes missiles from Turkey.
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JFK is assassinated in Texas, while traveling in an open car with his wife, the Texas governor and his wife.
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The Resolution is passed in Congress, essentially putting us in the Vietnam War.
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The U.S becomes the first country on earth to land on the moon. The moon surface is walked.
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Several men are caught trying to bug the Democratic National Committee building. This marks the beginning of the Watergate Scandal (publicity).
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Ended in January.
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Nixon announces his resignation. The next day, he officially leaves, becoming the first U.S president to resign.
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The government of East Berlin announces that, at midnight, it will now allow people to enter and exit the East. People flock to the wall and either cross it, or start trying to tear it down.
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The idea of internet shifts from begin a way of sending files to different locations, and to the idea that the internet can be a "web" that anyone can get information from.
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