Timeline 1930-1975

  • Hitlers nazi party gains majority in parliment

  • 1932 - FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT ELECTED PRESIDENT

  • 1933 - FDR INAUGURATED “100 DAYS”

  • 1934 - HINDENBURG DIES, HITLER APPOINTS HIMSELF PRESIDENT - “ FUEHRER”

  • 1936 - FDR RE-ELECTED- GERMANY AND ITALY SIGN “AXIS” TREATY

  • (SEPTEMBER) WORLD WAR II STARTS IN EUROPE with German Invasion of Poland. In just five weeks Poland surrenders to Germany.

  • (May) Germany invades Holland, Belgium and France – Churchill becomes P.M.- (May 30) British evacuate Continent at Dunkirk- (June) France Surrenders

  • (June) Germany invades Russia- (DECEMBER) JAPANESE ATTACK PEARL HARBOR – U.S. DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN - HITLER DECLARES WAR ON U.S.

  • Germans beging to retreat from Moscow area

  • Roosevelt and churchill meet in Casablanca, North Africa

  • Soviet troops have arrived in poland

  • U.S troops in Korea

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established

  • U.S recognizes Vietnam

  • 22nd Amendment was enacted

  • U.S provided militray aid for France

  • Brown vs Board of Education

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Eisenhower and Nixon re-elected

  • Period: to

    Eisnehower Presidency

  • Alaska and Hawaii become states

  • U.S increases invovlement in vietnam

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK Assassinated

  • Johnson defeats Goldwater in the 1964 election

  • Vietnam peace talk starts

  • 26th amendment was enacted to lower the voting age to 18

  • Vietnam war ends