History timeline By PrestonKeyes Period: 1870 to 1924 Massive immigration to America Period: 1870 to 1899 Labor unions starts 1873 Carnegie builds steel mill 1876 First telephone conversation-Alexander Graham Bell 1878 Edison invents electric light bulb Period: 1880 to 1890 Electricity for cities Period: 1890 to 1910 Progressive Era 1893 The Panic of 1893 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes President 1903 Wright brothers make first airplane flight 1913 Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line 1914 U.S. opens Panama Canal Period: 1914 to 1918 World War 1 1917 Russian Revolution Period: 1929 to 1941 World-wide Depression Period: 1939 to 1945 World War 2 1945 First atomic bomb exploded 1946 Beginning of Cold War Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War Period: 1950 to 1960 American Civil Rights Movement 1959 Cuban Revolution 1963 Assassination of President Kennedy Period: 1965 to 1973 Vietnam War Jun 20, 1969 Apollo 11 1989 Collapse of Communism in Europe 1991 End of the Cold War and Break up of the Soviet Union 1992 Formation of the European Union 2001 Terrorists attack American landmarks Period: 2003 to 2011 Iraq War 2008 Election of President Barrack Obama
