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The invention of the Model T – 10/1/1908
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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The WWI Armistice – 11/11/1918
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The 19th Amendment – August 18, 1920
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Charles Lindbergh’s Flight – 5/20/1927
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Black Thursday – 10/24/1929
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The New Deal – 1933-1939 (started 1933)
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Hitler becomes chancellor – 1/30/1933
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The Munich Pact – 9/30/1938
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Hitler Invades Poland – 9/1/1939
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Pearl Harbor – 12/7/1941
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D-Day – 6/6/1944
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki – 8/6/1945 and 8/9/1945
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The formation of United Nations – 10/24/1945
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The Long Telegram – 2/22/1946
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The formation of NATO – 4/4/1949
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Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb – 8/29/1949
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The Korean War – 6/25/1950 – 7/27/1953
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Brown v. Board of Education – 5/17/1954
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat – 12/1/1955
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The Cuban Missile Crisis – 10/16/1962 – 10/28/1962
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JFK’s Assassination – 11/22/1963
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution – 8/7/1964
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The Apollo 11 Moon Landing – 7/20/1969
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The Watergate Break-ins – 6/17/1972
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Nixon’s Resignation – 8/8/1974
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The Vietnam War – 11/1/1955 – 4/30/1975
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The invention of the Internet – 1/1/1983
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall – 11/9/1989
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The 9/11 Attacks – 9/11/2001
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Covid-19 Pandemic – 12/2019 (recognized globally 3/2020)