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The Model T was made by Ford on October 1, 1908 and was produced till May 26, 1927.
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The Zimmerman Telegram was a coded message sent by German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman to the German minister in Mexico on January 16, 1917.
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The WW1 Armistice was on November 11, 1918. It ended World War One.
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The 19th Amendment to The United States Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920, granting women the right to vote.
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In May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh starts his famous flight across the Atlantic Ocean flying from New York City to Paris. He landed in Paris on May 21,1927.
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Black Thursday was the first day of the stock market crash of 1929, which preceded the Great Depression.
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The New Deal was something Franklin D. Roosevelt made. It aimed to provide immediate economic relief and to bring about reforms to stabilize the economy.
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Hitler was made chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933.
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"The Munich Agreement, reached on September 30, 1938, by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy, allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland region of western Czechoslovakia."-Britannica.
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As dawn broke on September 1, 1939, German forces launched a surprise attack on Poland. The attack was sounded with the predawn shelling, by the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, of Polish fortifications at the Baltic port of Danzig (modern-day Gdańsk).
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"In the decade before World War II, Soviet physicists were actively engaged in nuclear and atomic research. By 1939 they had established that, once uranium has been fissioned, each nucleus emits neutrons and can therefore, at least in theory, begin a chain reaction."-Britannica
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"The first Japanese dive-bomber appeared over Pearl Harbor at 7:55 AM (local time) on December 7, 1941. The attack was part of a massive coordinated offensive that hit multiple targets throughout the Pacific."-Britannica.
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"D-Day was the name given to the June 6, 1944, invasion of the beaches at Normandy in northern France by troops from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries during World War II."-History.com.
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"The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, which marked the first use of atomic weapons in war."-Britannica.
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"United Nations (UN), international organization established on October 24, 1945. The United Nations (UN) was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership."- Britannica.
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"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. Kennan’s analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America’s Cold War policy of containment and became a foundational document of 20th-century U.S. history." History.com.
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"Korean War, conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives."-Britannica
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), military alliance established in 1949 that sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II.
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"Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States."-Britannica
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"Brown v. Board of Education, case in which, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously (9–0) that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits the states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person within their jurisdictions."-Britannica.
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When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus for white passengers in 1955, she was arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation ordinances.
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"Unlike technologies such as the phonograph or the safety pin, the internet has no single “inventor.” Instead, it has evolved over time. The internet got its start in the United States in the late 1960s as a military defense system in the Cold War. For years, scientists and researchers used it to communicate and share data with one another. Today, we use the internet for almost everything, and for many people it would be impossible to imagine life without it."-History.com
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"The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba."-Britannica
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"Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963."-Britannica
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, resolution put before the U.S. Congress by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 5, 1964, during the Vietnam War. Johnson presented it as a response to two allegedly unprovoked attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the U.S. destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy on August 2 and August 4, respectively."-Britannica
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"Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight during which commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin, Jr., on July 20, 1969, became the first people to land on the Moon and walk the lunar surface."-Britannica
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"The Watergate scandal was a series of interlocking political scandals of the U.S. President Richard M. Nixon’s administration. The scandal included a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972, and subsequent cover-up by people who worked for or with the White House, and by Nixon himself."-Britannica
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"In an evening televised address on August 8, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House."-History.com
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"The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, physically and ideologically divided East and West Germany for nearly three decades. The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was due to mass protests, political reforms in the Soviet Union, and economic difficulties in East Germany."-Vajiramandravi.com
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"September 11 attacks, series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history."-Britannica
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"COVID-19, highly contagious respiratory illness, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 was first detected in 2019 in Wuhan, China. A large proportion of infections in China were undocumented before travel restrictions and other control measures were implemented in late January 2020. As a result, COVID-19 very quickly spread to countries worldwide, giving rise to a multiyear pandemic that resulted in millions of deaths."-Britannica