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America History A overview time line

  • First U.S Military Advisors Were Sent Into Vietnam

    In the 1870 the 15th amendment was signed. It alowed black guys the right to vote. However many states ignored or found ways to the law with things like pole taxes.
  • Assassination Of Frank Ferdinanm

    The Archduke of The Austro-hungarian empire was assassinated in the 1914. This was the cause of WWI. WWI was known as the great war when it broke out.
  • The Panama Canal is Completed

    In 1914, the panama canal was officialy opened. for years the U.S had been working to build the panama canal for esayer travel. Teddy Roosevelt considered this his greatest achivement.
  • The U.S. enters WWI

    The 1917, was a result of what is known as the Zimmerman telegram the reason the U.S. entered WWI on the side of the Allies. Many things lead up to the U.S. entry into the war such as the sinking of the Lucitania.Before the the Zimmerman telegram the U.S. planed to stay out of the war completely
  • 19th Amendment Passed

    19th amendment was passed in the 1919. This gave women the right to vote in the U.S. The amendment was pushed as a part of the progressive movement. It was originally denied but eventual passed by Woodrow Willson. One of the finding fathers
  • treaty of versailles signed

    WWI ended with the signing of the treaty of Versailles in the 1919. This document required the Germans to pay reparations to the allied powers sending their economy to a near halt. This is the season of WWII.
  • Hitler invades Poland

    In 1939 The Germans ocupied the land of Poland as the first of Hitlers territories act. Let it be known as the trigger of WWII. It was Hitlers plan to use Polland for his prisoners while the original territory of Germany was kept for patriots.
  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    In 1941, Pearl Harbor was bombed by the japanese. They were lead by eperor Hirohito..this is what brought the U.S. into WWII
  • Executive Order 9066

    The Ececutive order 9066 hapened in 1942. This was the order to put japanese americans into internment camps. this lasted for two years
  • Martin Luther Kig. Jr

    The first atomic bomb was droped on Hiroshima In 1945. It was droped because franklin rooseve wanted to shorten the war in japan to stop any more americans soldiers from dieing in the pacific. the seconed bomb was droped 3 days later
  • Second bomb droped in Japan

    In 1945 the last atomic bomb was droped on Nagasaki. this was the bomb that convince emperor Hirohito to surrender to the U.S. This day was known as V.J. day or victory in Japan day
  • First military advisors were sent to Vietnam

    1955 the first military advisors were sent into Vietnam. they were sent to oversee how the possible future unrest due to the future election. not long after the rest of the armed forces moved into Vietnam.
  • March On Washington

    Martin Luther King lead a march on washington for civil rights In 1963. this is where Martin Luthier King gave his I Have a Dream speech. this was responsible for the civil rights act in 1965
  • John F. Kenedy is Assassinated

    In 1963 Pressident John F. Kenedy was assassintated while in his car at a public event. The man held responsible was Lee Harvey Oswald, who elegedly shot The president in the head. However Oswald himself was shot while being brought into custody.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

    In 1968 Martin Luther King was assasinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis Tennessee. he was 39 when he died. Martin Luther King died in Saint Joesephs hosspital in Memphis.
  • Vietnam war ends

    In April of 1975 all the GI's were removed from vietnam. the war ceased fire in 1973. after we pulled out the communists took ove vietnam
  • U.S Provides support to Afghanistan against the U.S.S.R.

    In Apri of 1985 the U.S provided weapons and training to the Afghani People for protection against the U.S.S.R. while the soviets were trying to take controll of the Suez Csnal. The U.S evan dug most of the caves in the Afghan Mountains for a better tactical position to fight from. This to many is considered the begining of The Tallibans millitarisation.
  • Desert storm starts

    In 1991 The U.S. lead a coalition to get iraq out of kuwait. it started when Iraq acused kuwait of drilling in iraqi territory. the U.S. moved in to defend kuwait from iraq. this was known as the persian gulf or desert storm.
  • U.N, Resolution 678 is offered

    In 1990 the U.N. offered its resolution 678 giving Iraq one last chance to exit Kuwait before the U.S. took military action. Sudam refused the resolution. this lead to the first Persian Gulf War
  • UN Declares victory in Persian Gulf

    In 1991 The U.S was declared victorios in the persian gulf. Many know this event by its more common name Desert storm.