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Was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Ford built 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history.
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An internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico
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Granted women the right to vote.
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An American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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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.
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Hitler becomes chancellor
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Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington's Capitol Plaza.
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Germany attacked Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. Poland's army's were defeated.
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The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest.
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Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars.
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The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii.
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The Allied invasion of Normandy lands in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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the formation of United Nations
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Being more than 8,000 words from Moscow to Secretary of State James Byrnes outlining a new strategy for diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed.
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The Russians are able to build an Atomic Bomb.
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea.
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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.
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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. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation.
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John F Kennedy was assassinated.
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Was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed.
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America lands on the moon for the first time in history.
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Former Nixon aides G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident.
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Nixon resigns.
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
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Citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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The twin towers were bombed, as well as other terrorist attacks around the U.S.