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the first Model T Ford was completed
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German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman issued a telegraph to Mexico about becoming allies with Germany if the US joined WWI
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the WWI fighting stopped; the Treaty of Versailles was completed six months later, officially ending the war
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gave women the right to vote
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Lindbergh flew an airplane across the Atlantic ocean from New York to Paris, France
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the stock market crashed in the US and began the Great Depression; is also called the Wall Street Crash of 1929
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experimental programs instituted during the 1st term of President FDR in response to the Great Depression
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Adolf Hitler becomes head of the government of Germany
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Hitler and the Germany invaded Poland, leading to Great Britain and France declaring war on Germany two days later
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signed by Hitler and British and French prime ministers to avoid war, but it gives Czechoslovakia to Germany
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Japanese fighter planes attacked American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
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Allies invaded Normandy during WWII
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on the 6th and 9th of August, US dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japan cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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replacing the League of Nations, the UN was designed to negotiate peace and work through conflict during WWI
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George Kennan in Moscow sends a 5000 - 8000-word telegram to the US State Department outlining a new diplomatic relations strategy with the Soviet Union
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization created to stop the expansion of Communism
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began when North Korea invaded South Korea; the United Nations and the US came to South Korea's aid
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US Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to establish separate public schools for black and white students
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger
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J.C.R. Licklider of MIT envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site; the idea of the internet also started during the Cold War as a governmental weapon
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military and political standoff between the US and Cuba after Cuba received nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union
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President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas
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gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War
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the first humans, including Neil A. Armstrong, landed on the moon
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burglars connected to Pres. Richard Nixon are arrested in Washington D.C. trying to wiretap phones and steal secret documents
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President Richard M. Nixon resigned as president after the Watergate break-ins
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Germans living in east Germany could now freely cross into West Berlin
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terrorists hijacked four planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in NYC, the Pentagon near Washington D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania