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Wright Brothers have first sustained flight in Kitty Hawk, NC
Orville and Wilbur Wright flew at 852 ft. for 59 seconds -
U.S. enters WW1
U.S. declares war on Germany after German U-boats sink American merchant and passenger ships. -
First Woman elected into Congress
Jeanette Rankin was the first woman elected into Congress and served until 1919 -
Austria-Germany peace treaty
President Warren G. Harding signs a resolution with Austria and Germany declaring peace. -
Stock market crash and start of the Great Depression
Large bank loans, large amounts of debt and low wages led to the stock market crash which ultimately led to the Great Depression. -
New Deal established by FDR
After F. Roosevelt's inauguration, he established the New Deal that was put in place to help provide recovery and relief for the American people from the Great Depression. -
U.S. enters WW2
Japan planned a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor which was a US naval base. 2,403 Americans died during this attack. -
Worlds first atomic bomb dropped by U.S.
The U.S. dropped the worlds first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. On August 9, the U.S. dropped another smaller atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Ultimately, these bombings ended the war. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Linda Brown was denied entrance into school because she was black. Her case made it to the Supreme Court where Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren ruled that segregation of schools was unconstitutional. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The U.S. entered a military stand off with the Soviet Union because of the presence of nuclear weapons in Cuba. This was such a big deal because Cuba is only 90 miles away from the coast of Florida. -
MLK Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech "I have a dream" to over 200,000 people during the march on Washington for civil rights. -
First men to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. -
Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court case that ruled first trimester pregnancy abortions were legal.