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Calvin Coolidge Death
The death of the former President Calvin Coolidge was a sad time in America. He was the one that returned public confidence into the White House after the Scandals. I picked this event because it is another historic event that effects America. -
Bonnie and Clyde's death
Barrow and Parker were ambushed and killed on May 23, 1934, on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. The couple appeared in daylight in an automobile and were shot by a posse of four Texas officers Frank Hamer, "Manny" Gault, Bob Alcorn, and Ted Hinton and two Louisiana officers Henderson Jordan and Prentiss Morel Oakley. -
Berlin Olymbic Games
The Games was during the time the Nazi Party was in power and Hitler was the Reich Chancellor and he saw the games as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy. Hitler actually threatened to boycott the games if any Jews was attending. I also chose this event because it also affected America, the US couldn't have any Jew athletes that was supposed to attend but was not permitted by Hitler so the US couldn't use our best players in the game. -
Albert Einstein writes President Roosevelt about atomic energy
Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt on August 2, 1939. In it he observed, among other things, that: “it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs.” The reason why I picked this event because this is another historic event in America. -
Glenn T. Seaborg's group discover plutonium
Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillan, Joseph Kennedy and Arthur Wahl first synthesized and identified that is discovered plutonium (atomic number 94, symbol Pu) at U.C. Berkeley on the night of February 23-24, 1941. We found this plutonium in the form of isotope Pu. This isotope was produced by the bombardment of uranium with deuterons in the 60-inch cyclotron at U.C. Berkeley. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was an attack from the Japanese against the United States Naval base in Hawaii. I picked this event to put in this timeline because it was a historic and tragic event in American history. -
Germany and Italy declare war on U.S.
On December 8, Japanese Ambassador Oshima went to German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop to nail the Germans down on a formal declaration of war against America. On December 11 Italy also agreed to declare war on U.S. -
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Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima
Hiroshima was a very tragic moment in history. 146,000 was killed throughout the explosion and radiation spread. Little boy was the first ever atomic bomb to be dropped on a city. Before U.S. did it they asked Japan to surrender but they ignored so Harry Truman ordered for the bombs to drop. -
Russia declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria
On this day, Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria with 1 million soviet soldiers into 700,000 Japanese stronghold. Japan would not surrender until they knew what was to come for Japan's future and to keep there emperor in power. -
U.S. dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki
The second atomic bomb was dropped on this day and made history once again. It was very tragic moment, 140,000 Japanese civilians were killed. A few days later was when Japan finally surrendered. -