American History Timeline

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    It was Between the US and several southern slave states that declared their susscion informed the confederate states of America.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed it to have been adopted. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted after the American Civil War.
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War
    A conflict between spain and the US and American attacks spains pacific possesions, which led to the phillipine revoulution
  • Gilded Age

    Gilded Age
    the Gilded Age was the period following the American Civil War, roughly from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the turn of the twentieth century
  • WWI

    WWI
    was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances
  • US enters WWI

    US enters WWI
    When war erupted in 1914, the United States attempted to remain neutral and was a proponent for the rights of neutral states. The Germans responded by temporally ceasing submarine warfare until 1917 when German Ambassador Berstorff announced the continuation of submarine warfare and ended diplomatic relations with the United States.
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    The Stock Market Crashed, and all they banks were closed therefore none of the people could get their money.
  • Stock Market Crashed

    Stock Market Crashed
    The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in history. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries and did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    Hilter made Germans beilieve that he was going to help their country and instead he was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout German-occupied territory
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japan invaded our military base in Hawaii, it was first attack on US soil.
  • Baby Boom

    Baby Boom
    When soilders came back from WW2, they were making love like crazy and they made they biggest generation yet.
  • WW2

    WW2
    was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations including all of the great powers eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military units from over 30 different countries
  • Cold War

    Cold War
    The Cold War, often dated from 1947 to 1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc, dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the Eastern Bloc, dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    It was the War between the Repuplic of Korea supported by the United Nations and the democratic peoples republic of korea, at one time supported by the peoples republic of China and Soviet Union
  • Veitnam

    Veitnam
    was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by the People's Republic of China and other anti-capitalist, communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other capitalist, anti-communist countries.
  • NASA

    NASA
    s the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.
  • JFK Assignted

    JFK Assignted
    JFK assignated in 63' in Dallas Texas
  • Dr.King assignated

    Dr.King assignated
    Was Assiganted in Memphis at 6:01PM , while he was standing on the balcony of his Hotel Room
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    The last US plane to get US soilders from Japan
  • Collaspe of The Soviet Union

    Collaspe of The Soviet Union
    was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration № 142-H of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[1] This declaration acknowledged the independence of the twelve republics of the Soviet Union that subsequently created the Commonwealth of Independent States
  • First Gulf War

    First Gulf War
    codenamed Operation Desert Storm (17 January 1991 – 28 February 1991) was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized Coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
  • 911

    911
    Terriost hijacked US planes and attacked the World Trade Center in NYC.
  • Invasion of Iraq

    Invasion of Iraq
    The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 19 March 2003 to 1 May 2003, and signaled the start of the conflict that later came to be known as the Iraq War, which was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States. The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland, invaded Iraq and deposed the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein.
  • Huricanne Katrina

    Huricanne Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States.
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama
    the first African American to hold the office, his election did many people in a postive way, showing that anyone can do what they set there mind to