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The invention of the Model T
On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen Beetle surpassed it in 1972.
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The Zimmerman Telegram
German Foreign Minister sent a telegram to the Mexican Minister, promising that if Mexico join Germany and become their ally, they would help Mexico get back the land the U.S. had taken away. -
The WWI Armistice
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The 19th Amendment
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. ( https://www.google.com/search?q=The+19th+Amendment&oq=The+19th+Amendment&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.715j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 ) -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
At 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh gunned the engine of the "Spirit of St Louis" and aimed her down the dirt runway of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Heavily laden with fuel, the plane bounced down the muddy field, gradually became airborne and barely cleared the telephone wires at the field's edge. Thirty-three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone.
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Black Thursday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929, and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history
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Hitler becomes chancellor
In the hope of creating a stable government, the elderly President Hindenburg agreed to the plan. So on 30 January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
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The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later.
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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.
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Hitler Invades Poland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
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Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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The formation of United Nations
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The Long Telegram
Kennan responded on February 22, 1946, by sending a lengthy 5,500-word telegram (sometimes cited as being more than 8,000 words) from Moscow to Secretary of State James Byrnes outlining a new strategy for diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
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The formation of NATO
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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
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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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The Watergate Break-ins
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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
