Americas By joshuabowyer 1901 First Nobel Peace prize is awarded 1908 First commercial radio transmission 1908 first boy scouts troupe is formed 1911 Ernest Ruthford identifies the atomic nucleus 1912 Titanic sank 1913 First modern assembly line by Henry Ford Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I 1917 Halifax Explosion 1919 Treaty of Versai is formed Period: 1920 to 1929 Roaring 20's 1924 1924 FBI is formed Period: 1930 to 1940 Great Depression 30's 1931 Empire state building is formed Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II 1941 Pearl Harbor 1942 Manhattan Project Begins 1943 Pentagon is completed 1944 D-day Period: 1947 to 1989 Cold war 1949 Creation of NATO 1950 Korean War 1952 Usa makes first hydrogen bomb Period: 1955 to 1975 Vietnam War 1957 Creation of the contraceptives pill 1958 NASA is formed 1958 Avero Aero Program 1960 U-2 incident causes tensions with the USSR 1962 Cuban missile crisis Starts & Ends 1963 Assassination of JFK 1969 Concord Flies for the first time 1981 First orbital flight of the Space Shuttle 1987 Stock market crash 1993 World Trade Center bombing 1994 Establishment of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 2001 911