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In January of 1917, Germany and Mexico made an alliance saying that if the US entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
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After over four years of fighting and death, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. This was the first armistice (aka truce) and the first step to ending the war.
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Woman get the right to vote.
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The Model T was built by Ford Motor Company which was owned by Henry Ford. Although being invented in 1908, it wasn't ready for the public until 1927 and Henry Ford made sure that everyone could afford one.
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Charles Lindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean in less than 34 hours
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Lasting up to 5 days after Black Thursday was the Wall Street crash of 1929 after some panicked investors sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging 11%.
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After a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues, President Paul von Hindenburg thought it best to appoint Adolf Hitler as Chancellor
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The New Deal was a bunch of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations that President Franklin D. Roosevelt set up.
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The Munich Pact or the Munich Agreement was when Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.
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The Nazis planted fake evidence saying that Poland was preparing to invade Germany so the Germans stroke first. This was the start to WWII.
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At 08:00 on December 7th of 1941, Pearl Harbor's naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service.
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The Normandy landings were a series of airborne and landing operations during WWII. One of the more well known ones was Operation Neptune AKA D-Day.
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The US set off two nuclear weapons in the Japanese towns of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. To this day, those are the only nuclear weapons ever to be used in combat.
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The United Nations is an organization that maintains peace and keeps the US safe.
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The Long Telegram AKA the X Article was an news article about foreign affairs by George F. Kennan.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
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Soviet made it's own nuclear bomb and tested it at Semipalatinsk.
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The Korean War was a civil war between North and South Korea.
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The US Supreme Court declared that no matter what your race is, you'll have the same opportunity's to learn as everyone else.
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Vietnam and America went to war and after years of fighting, America won.
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Parks was a colored woman who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.
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Before receiving it's name, the internet was called ARPANET which was short for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
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The Soviet Union wanted to put nuclear weapons in Cuba but the US didn't agree.
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JFK was the 35th President of the US and he was killed after being in office for two years.
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Congress gave President Johnson the power to do whatever was necessary to have peace and security in southeast Asia.
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Commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin were the first Americans to land on the moon with the help of their ship, Apollo Lunar Module Eagle.
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Some burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to mess with President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.
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After the Watergate break-in, President Richard Nixon resigned.
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The Berlin Wall was built to keep West Berlin from surrounding East Germany.
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A couple of terrorists attacked the twin towers in NYC killing hundreds of innocents.
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Covid-19 is a virus that was discovered in China and is still here in the present day.
