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The invention of the Model T
Invention of the first automobile to be manufactured in bulk. It was reliable, inexpensive transportation on a massive scale
"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for... But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces." ~Henry Ford -
The Zimmerman Telegram
Germany's foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman sent a telegram to Mexico. It contained Germany's proposal and stated that if America was to join WWI, that Germany would side with Mexico, and would offer back territories stolen during the Mexican-American war in return for Mexico's assistance. It was intercepted and decoded by British Intelligence. -
The WWI Armistice
Armistice- "A temporary cessation of fighting by mutual consent; a truce."
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The 19th Amendment
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Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
Charles Lindbergh preforms the first non-stop flight over the Atlantic, between New York and Paris, alone. -
Black Tuesday
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The New Deal
A series of programs enacted by the Government in response to the Great Depression. These focused on "the three Rs." Relief, Recovery and Reform. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
"On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany."
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The Munich Pact
"British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest."
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Hitler Invades Poland
The German's invade poland, claiming that it was a defensive action. This action initiates WWII.
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Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The US dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki -
The Formation of the League of Nations
"The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945" -
The Long Telegram
"George Kennan, the American charge d’affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union."
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The Formation of NATO
"The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance"
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Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
"At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb."
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The Korean War
"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. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance." -
Brown v Board of Education
"Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was 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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The Vietnam War
"It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies and the war is therefore considered a Cold War-era proxy war."
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
"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."
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
"A Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation, elements of which were televised, was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war."
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John F. Kennedy's Assassination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
"It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty". This included involving armed forces."
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The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
First moon landing -
Watergate Scandal
"Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C."
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Nixon’s Resignation
Pres. Richard Nixon resigns. -
The invention of the Internet
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The 9/11 Attacks
Four coordinated terrorist attacks. Four passenger airliners were hijacked and crashed, two of which crashed into New York's Twin Towers.