Timeline: Social studies | Timetoast

Period: Jan 9, 1914 to Jan 9, 1918

WWI

Also know as the First World War. It was centered in Europe.
Jan 9, 1921

NCSS is founded
Period: Jan 9, 1929 to Jan 9, 1932

Great Depresseion

Stock market crashed and sent the US into the great depression.
Period: Jan 9, 1939 to Jan 9, 1945

WWII

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.
Dec 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor
Period: Jan 9, 1950 to Jan 9, 1953

Korean War

was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union.
Jan 9, 1957

First Satellite Launched (Sputnik, Russia)
Period: Jan 9, 1960 to Jan 9, 1973

Vietnam
Jan 9, 1961

First Man in Space (Yuri Gagarin, Russia)
Jan 9, 1969

First Man on Moon (Niel Armstrong, USA)
Jan 9, 1974

Watergate
Period: Jan 9, 2000 to Jan 9, 2014

N.C.L.B. mandate in schools
Sep 11, 2001

World Trade Center Attacks