The launch of the Sputnik. I'm pretty sure
Commodore Perry sailed to Japan's shores with a few American vessels. What he did was, he basically forced the Japanese government to sign trading treaties with the US (soon other European nations followed as well). This meant thta he basically opened the nation to foreign investment and influence.
The French founded colonies in much of eastern North America. They established forts and settlements that would become such cities as Quebec and Montreal in Canada; Detroit, Green Bay, St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Mobile, Biloxi, Baton Rouge, New Orleans in the United States; and Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitien, in Haiti; Cayenne in French Guiana; and Sao Luis (founded by St. Louis) in Brazil.
The Palmer Raids didn't let anyone have freedom of speech against the government
