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The first production of the Ford Model T is released. Ford sold over 15 million between 1908 and 1927.
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Britain intercepted a telegram from Berlin that they knew would bring America to the aid of the allies.
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This ended WWI with a signing of the armistice calling for a ceasefire .
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This granted women the right to vote.
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Charles Lindbergh flew the first solo flight across the entire Atlantic ocean.
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This the day when the stock market crashed as the most devastating stock market crash in history.
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The New Deal was a series of financial reforms in the 1930s following the great depression.
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Hitler was elected the Chancellor of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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This was the settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's border mainly inhabited by German speakers.
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Hitler and the german army invade Poland at the start of WWII
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Pearl harbor was a naval base near Honolulu, Hawai'i. It was destroyed in a surprise air assault by Japan and brought america into WWII.
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D-Day was the day that Allies launched a successful invasion on the beaches of Normandy to retake eastern Europe.
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These were the two cities that the allies dropped atomic bombs on in Japan during WWII
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The United Nations was formed to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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An 8000 word telegram from George Kennan, and Embassy official. It stated exactly what the American Government wanted it to. Kennan hated communism and the Soviet government.
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The North Atlantic Alliance is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European States.
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The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, nicknamed, "First Lightning".
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A war between North and South Korea after several clashes at the border.
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When the supreme court ruled that separate schools for whites and blacks was unconstitutional.
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A conflict that occurred throughout Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia until 1975.
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A 13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American Ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey and subsequent soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a presidential motorcade in Texas around Dealey Plaza.
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It was a joint resolution the the United States congress passed in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
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The first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
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Part of a major political Scandal following the break in by five men at the Watergate Complex in Washington D.C.
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Nixon resigned in the face of near impeachment after the Watergate Scandal had cost him much of his presidential power.
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Scientists pulled together a "network of networks" successfully creating the internet as we know it.
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The wall that had been Separating Eastern and Western Germany was taken down to allow people to cross between the border freely.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the "colored" section of the bus when the "whites" section was filled.
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Two planes were taken over by terrorists and flown into the World Trade Center marking it as the first terrorist attack on American Soil.