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The invention of the Model T
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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The WWI Armistice
On this day in History, World War I ends. -
The 19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied of abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight (DAY 1)
This is the first time a man made a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight (DAY 2)
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The Watergate Break-ins
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Black Thursday
The onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression. -
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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The New Deal
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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. -
Hitler Invades Poland
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Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War II. -
The formation of United Nations
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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, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
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The formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
The Korean War Begins
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The Korean War Ends
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Brown v Board of Education
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The Vietnam War Starts
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
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The Cuban Missile Crisis Starts
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The Cuban Missile Crisis Ends
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JFK’s Assassination
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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Nixon’s Resignation
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The Vietnam War Ends
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The invention of the Internet
ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The 9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
