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the Germans had started making overtures about an armistice in early October.
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The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in the US, after a long and hard fight that lasted almost a century.
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Model T, automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927.
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Charles Lindbergh made the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight from New York City to Paris on May 20-21, 1927, flying alone for 33.5 hours in his aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis
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Black Thursday refers to two different historical events that occurred on the same date, October 14, in 1929 and 1943.
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The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938.
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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party) -
The Munich Pact was an agreement signed in 1938 between Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, which allowed Germany to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia where German-speaking people lived. -
On September 1, 1939, German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. -
World War II and accelerated feasibility The 1942 Russian report on the feasibility of uranium titled: Disposition No. 2352 -
the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
The US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. -
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· The Long Telegram [original], from George Kennan in Moscow to the Secretary of State, February 22, 1946
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Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark case that challenged racial segregation in public schools in 1954
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a pivotal moment in the Vietnam War that gave President Johnson broad war powers
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Rosa Parks is known for her historic act of civil disobedience in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws
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the Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, symbolizing the Cold War and the Iron Curtain.
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The Cuban missile crisis was a tense standoff between the US and the Soviet Union in October 1962 over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, when he was fatally shot from the nearby Texas School Book Deposit…
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On July 19 at 17:21:50 UTC, Apollo 11 passed behind the Moon and fired its service propulsion engine to enter lunar orbit. In the thirty orbits that followed, the crew saw passing views of their landing site in the southern Sea of Tranquility about 12 miles (19 km) southwest of the crater Sabine D. -
The Watergate break-in was a burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972, by five men with ties to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign..
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President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office on August 8, 1974, to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal. Nixon's resignation was the culmination of what he referred to in his speech as the "long and difficult period of Watergate"
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January 1, 1983
ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard on January 1, 1983, hence the birth of the Internet. -
The September 11 attacks were a series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 terrorists associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda.
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the pandemic