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https://corporate.ford.com/articles/history/the-model-t.html
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https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-zimmermann-telegram The Germans attempted to send a coded telegraph to their Mexican ambassador saying that if the US should enter the war, the ambassador was to speak to the Mexican president to ask them to attack the US.
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https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/armistice
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https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/amendment-19
Women were granted the right to vote. -
The first successful trans-Atlantic airplane flight
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blackthursday.asp
The day the stock market crashed leading to the great depression -
https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/new-deal
the series of programs set in motion to help americans -
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/munich-pact-signed
avoided war, but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest -
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https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day
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https://www.history.com/topics/korea/korean-war
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https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/347us483
Law case on racial segregation within schools. Argued Dec 9-11 1952, Re-argued Dec 7-9 1953. Decided May 17, 1954 -
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rosa-parks-ignites-bus-boycot
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https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/gulf-of-tonkin
Two US fighter planes fired upon Vietnamese forces, prompting the start of the war -
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html
The first man landed successfully on the moon -
https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet
After many years of scientific contributions, the first computer to computer message was sent. -
https://www.archivesfoundation.org/documents/richard-nixon-resignation-letter-gerald-ford-pardon/
after the Watergate scandal, Nixon resigned. -
https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history
Long and costly, nearly 3 million people were killed (58,000 Americans) November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975 -
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
When people were told they could cross, hundreds went to the wall. Some were able to cross freely and others chipped away at the wall with various tools -
https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/9-11-attacks
One of the scariest days in US history that brought the country together for a short time. -
Covid 19: a flu like illness with a more than 90% survival rate that shut down countries because of what was more than likely a politically powered front to hide bigger things.
