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The invention of the Model T
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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The WWI Armistice
"the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany." -
The 19th Amendment
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Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
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Black Thursday
"The Wallstreet Crash," or "Great Crash." Major stock market crash in 1929. -
The New Deal
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Hitler becomes chancellor
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The Munich Pact
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Hitler Invades Poland
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Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
Normandy Landings. Largest sea invasion in history. Involved 15 some-odd different forces. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombings
United states detonated two nuclear bombs over Japan -
The formation of United Nations
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The Long Telegram
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The formation of NATO
"The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries." -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
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The Korean War
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brown v board of education
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The Vietnam War
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
"The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba." -
JFK’s Assassination
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
"...authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia." -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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The Watergate Break-ins
"Police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Evidence linked the break-in to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign." -
Nixon’s Resignation
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The invention of the Internet
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The 9/11 Attacks