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The telegram sent to Mexico by Germany that signaled the US joining World War 1
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The armistice signed, ending the war with the last opponent, Germany
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The Amendment passed that gave equal voting rights to women and men
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The first affordable automobile invented by Henry Ford
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The first nonstop transatlantic flight
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The crash 1929 Wall Street Crash
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The supposed thousand year Reich had begun, but Hitler was not in full power yet
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Program of short term relief measures designed to relieve the economic weight off agriculture, finance, etcetera
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The dispute over Czechoslovakia, between the UK, Germany, France, and Italy was settled
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This invasion was the start of World War II
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Surprise attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, sinking the USS West Virginia and the USS Arizona and leaving wreckage that is seen below the water even today
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The representatives of 26 nations forming to create the United Nations in order to end the rule of the Axis powers
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Victory in the Battle of Normandy, resulting in the liberation of Western Europe from the control of Nazi Germany
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The detonation of two nuclear bombs over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, drawing WWII to a close
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Telegram sent by George Kennan from the United States embassy in Moscow, Russia, to Washington, observing the aftermath of the Russian Civil War
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12 countries originally signed this treaty to insure that every country was at peace with the other and each country was secure
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The Russians attempted to build two kinds of atomic bombs - plutonium RDS-1 and uranium RDS-2- and successfully tested these bombs in 1949
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A powerful force from the Soviet-supported Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) swept south of the 38th parallel into the Republic of Korea
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United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
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By refusing to give up her seat, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, helped initiate the civil rights movement
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The only war that the United States lost, and in turn brought the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, resulting in 3 communist countries
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The idea of the Internet was created by Leonard Kleinrock after he published his paper titled, “Information Flow in Large Communication Nets”’
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A 13-day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war
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The assassination of President John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on a motorcade with his wife
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A joint resolution that the US Congress passed in August of 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident
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Commander Neil Armstrong and his pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module Eagle, and Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon
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A major political scandal was brought to light by 5 burglars at the DNC headquarters, leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon
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President Nixon was the only president to ever have resigned from office midterm, due to the pushback of the Watergate Scandal
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This Wall was a physical division between communist Germany to Berlin. When the Wall fell, it was just as instantaneous as its creation
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The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Additional people died of 9/11-related cancer and respiratory diseases in the months and years following the attacks