Cultural Literacy

By wc1472
  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

  • Jan 1, 1453

    Mehmed II takes Constantinople

  • Landing of the Mayflower

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Ratification of the US constitution

  • Start of the French Revolution

  • Napoleon Declared Emperor

  • Car Invented

  • Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo

  • Period: to

    Us Civil War

  • assassination of Franz Ferdinand

  • Bolshevik Revolution

  • US enters WW1

  • Armistice WW1

  • German invasion of poland

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

  • German Surrender

  • Fat Man

  • Little Boy

  • Japan Surrenders

  • Iron Curtain Speech

  • Period: to

    Berlin Airlift

  • Communist China

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Vietnam War begins

  • Berlin Wall Constructed

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Kennedy Assassinated

  • Period: to

    Tet Offensive

  • Woodstock

  • Watergate Scandal

  • America completely leaves Vietnam

  • Tiananmen Square Protest

  • Re-Unification of Germany

  • USSR ends

  • End of Apartheid and Nelson Mandela's release

  • 9/11