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The Ford Motor Company unveils the Model T, the first affordable car for a majority of Americans.
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The British intercepted and deciphered a message from Berlin which they knew would bring America to the aid of the Allies.
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World War I came to an end following the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany that called for ceasefire.
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This amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to US citizens based on their gender.
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This flight, New York to Paris, made Charles the first pilot to solo a nonstop transatlantic flight.
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Also known as the Wall Street Crash of 1929, this was the most devastating stock market crash in history.
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A series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in response to the Great Depression.
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Hitler is named chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
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This agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest.
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Hitler claimed this was a defense action, but days later war was declared on Germany, initiating World War II.
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The Japanese Navy Air service attacked Pearl Harbor with a surprise Military strike against the US base at Pearl Harbor.
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The Normandy landings, which were landing operations of the Allied during World War II.
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During the final stage of World War II, the US detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this resulted in allied victory.
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Organized to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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An embassy official, George Kennan, wrote an 8,000 word telegram which said exactly what American government wanted it to. He hated communism and the Soviet government.
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a military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
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North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes at the border.
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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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Conflict that pitted the government of North and South Vietnam against each other. This was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger after the "whites only" section was filled. This helped initiate the civil rights movement.
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A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American missile deployment.
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The President was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade.
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A resolution enacted in result of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
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The Watergate scandal has costed Nixon much of his political support, Nixon faced certain impeachment and removal from office, he then resigned.
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The Internet was the work of dozens of pioneering scientists, programmers and engineers who each developed new features and technologies, which is what we know as the internet today.
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The 9/11 attacks were four attacks coordinated by an Islamic terrorist group on the United States.