apush alex fox timeline

  • Joseph Fox

    Relations: Great Grandpa
    He was born in Beckly, West Virginia in May 1895.
  • Martha Fox

    Relations: Great Grandmother
    She was born in Charleston, West Virginia. She was Scots-Irish.
  • Argie Dowdy

    Argie Dowdy
    Argie Dowdy was born February 11, 1907 in Kentucky.
  • Fred Dowdy

    Fred Dowdy
    Fred Dowdy was born on July 18, 1907 in Kentucky.
  • World War 1

    World War 1
    Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated, the beginning of the first World War is started.
  • Paul McEldowney

    Relations: Great Grandfather
    Paul was born on November 19, 1917 in New Jersey.
  • Ruth McEldowney

    Relations: Great Grandmother
    Ruth McEldowney was born on January 15, 1919 in New Jersey.
  • Gertrude Rexroad

    Relations: Great Grandmother
    Gertrude Rexroad was born on April 3, 1922 in West Virginia.
  • Lorah Fox

    Relations: Grandfather
    He was born on September 18, 1922 in West Virginia.
  • Virgil McIntire

    Relations: Great Grandfather
    Virgil McIntire was born on December 14, 1922 in Kentucky.
  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash
    The Stock Market crashes which leads to the beginning of the Great Depression.
  • Alice Dowdy

    Relations: Grandmother
    She was born on November 2, 1930 in Kentucky.
  • WW2

    WW2
    After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. joined the Allied powers in WW2.
  • Enlist

    Enlist
    Lorah Fox enlists in the military to serve in WW2.
  • Grandparents are married.

    Grandparents are married.
    Virgil McIntire and Gertrude Rexroad are married.
  • Robert McEdowney

    Relations: Grandfather
    He was born on September 22, 1944 in Trenton, New Jersey.
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    The 1st of 2 Atomic bombs are dropped upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • Cheryl McIntire

    Cheryl McIntire
    Relations: Grandmother
    Cheryl McIntire was born on Dec. 27 1946 in Portsmouth, Ohio.
  • Indian Independence

    India declare themselves independent from the British Empire.
  • Ghandi's death

    Ghandi's death
    Mohandas Ghandi is assassinated.
  • Grandparents get Married.

    Lorah Fox and Alice Dowdy are wed.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The U.S. aids South Korea and helps them win the war.
  • The King Of Rock and Roll

    The King Of Rock and Roll
    Elvis Presley signs a record deal that will soon make him an American Icon.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    Relations between U.S. and Soviet union weaken. The U.S. wants to ensure that Communism would not spread into South Vietnam.
  • JFK's Death

    JFK's Death
    John F Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
  • Dennis Fox

    Dennis Fox
    Relations: Father
    He was born in Lithopolis, Ohio.
  • Christine McEldowney

    Christine McEldowney
    Relations: Mother
    She was born in Columbus, Ohio.
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the 1st men to walk on the moon.
  • Vietnam Ends

    Vietnam Ends
    South Vietnam surrenders on April 30, 1975. This is the end of the Vietnam war, the U.S. suffers there first military defeat.
  • Mt. St. Helen

    Mt. St. Helen
    Mt. St. Helen erupts, which was at the time the most devastating earthquakes in U.S. history.
  • John Lennon's Death

    John Lennon's Death
    The famous Beatle, John Lennon, was murdered by Mark David Chapman.
  • Marriage of Christine McEldowney and Dennis Fox

    Christine McEldowney and Dennis Fox are married.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall falls, no longer separating East and West Germany.
  • Cold War Ends.

    Cold War Ends.
    The Cold war ends after 44 years of confilct between Communism and Capitalism.
  • Alex Fox

    Alex Fox
    I was born on October 20, 1993.
  • 9/11

    9/11
    Al Qaeda plots attack on the U.S. They destroy the twin towers, part of the Pentagon, and try to attack the white house.
  • New House

    New House
    I move to my new home in Slate Ridge.
  • First Black President

    First Black President
    Barack Obama is inaugurated in Washington D.C. becoming the United States first black president.
  • Sydneys Graduation.

    Sydneys Graduation.
    My sister Sydney Fox graduates from Canal Winchester high school.