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The invention of the Model T
On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
Unknown actual date, January, 1917 -
The WWI Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 -
The 19th Amendment
Ratified on August 18, 1920 -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. -
Black Thursday
October 24, 1929. On this date, a then-record number of shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange by panicked investors, marking the onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 (Unknown technical date) -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
On 30 January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. -
The Munich Pact
Munich Pact signed - Sep 30, 1938 -
Hitler Invades Poland
Germans invade Poland - Sep 01, 1939 -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941 -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 -
The Formation of United Nations
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945. -
The Long Telegram
Kennan wrote the Long Telegram outlining his opinions and views of the Soviets; "According to Kennan, the Soviets' view of the world came from a traditional 'Russian sense of insecurity...'" It arrived in Washington on February 22, 1946. -
The Formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Russians Acquire the Atomic Bomb
The Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, RDS-1, codenamed First Lightning, on 29 August 1949 -
The Korean War
Period: June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953 -
Brown vs Board of Education
End date: May 17, 1954 -
The Vietnam War
Period: November 1, 1955 – April 30, 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 white section was filled. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Period: October 14, 1962 – October 28, 1962 -
JFK’s Assassination
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, 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
July 20, 1969 -
The Watergate Break-ins
Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. -
Nixon’s Resignation
On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. -
The Invention of the Internet
Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (No Specific Dates) -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989. -
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