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The invention of the Model T
(The first affordable automobile) -
The Zimmerman Telegram
(The German message asking if the Mexicans will join them in the event that America enters WWI) -
The WWI Armistice
(An agreement between the Germans and the Allied forces to stop fighting) -
The 19th Amendment
(Women can vote!!!) -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
(The end of the first solo flight across the Atlantic) -
Black Thursday
(BIG stock market crash) -
Hitler becomes chancellor
(Communism is strengthened) -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. -
The Munich Pact
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined. -
Hitler Invades Poland
(The Nazi's take back the land that was taken from Germany by the Polish) -
Pearl Harbor
(Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii) -
D-Day
(Allied troops land in Normandy and invade) -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
(Two atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th) -
The formation of United Nations
(The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.) -
The Long Telegram
(They received back an 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan, an Embassy official. This has become known as 'the Long Telegram', and it said exactly what the American government wanted it to. Kennan hated Communism and the Soviet government) -
The formation of NATO
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Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
(Russians gain the technology to build a nuclear arsenal) -
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) -
Brown v Board of Education
(Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, 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) -
The Vietnam War
(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) -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
(On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation) -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
(The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war) -
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) -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
(The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, 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 astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body) -
The Watergate Break-ins
(This was a more serious crime than the break-in: It was an abuse of presidential power and a deliberate obstruction of justice. Meanwhile, seven conspirators were indicted on charges related to the Watergate affair. At the urging of Nixon's aides, five pleaded guilty to avoid trial; the other two were convicted in January 1973) -
Nixon’s Resignation
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The invention of the Internet
(ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web) -
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)