timeline 2nd semester.

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  • the invention of the model T

    October 1 1908
    the first car ever made.

  • The Zimmerman telegram

    1917
    This was a German telegram they were using to communicate with Mexico.

  • WW1 Armistice

    On Nov 11 1918
    Ended world war one.

  • 19th amendment

    Ratified august 18 1920
    This amendment gave women the right to vote.

  • charles lindberghs flight

    May 21 1927
    Was the first solo plane to fly across the Atlantic.

  • black thursday

    October 24 1929
    Millions of stocks were sold.
    It marked the start of the great depression.

  • the new deal

    Duration 1933-1937

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    Jan 30 1933
    Hitler rises to power.

  • munich pact

    Sep 30 1938
    Temporarily stops war

  • hitler invades poland

    Sep 1 1939
    The start of world war 2

  • pearl harbor

    December 7 1941
    Japan attacks the united states .
    America decides to enter the war.

  • D-Day

    June 6 1944
    One of the largest amphibious assault missions in history.

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    August 1945
    The USA drops two atomic bombs on japan.
    Pretty much taking japan out of the war.

  • The formation of the united nations

  • the long Telegram

    Feb 22 1946
    George Kennan sends an 8000 word message with his impute about the containment of the cold war.

  • russians aquire the atomic bomb

    August 29 1949
    It came to the USA sooner than we expected.

  • formation of NATO

  • the korean war

    June 25 1950
    The strange thing about this war is it never ended, because the never had a peace treaty or anything.

  • brown v board of education

  • vietnam war

    1954
    The tensions of the cold war made it hard

  • Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat

  • the cuban missile crisis

    October 1962
    A 13 day standoff between Russia and America, because of Russia nuclear bombs on Cuba.

  • JFK'S Assassination

  • the gulf of tonkin resolution

  • apollo 11 moon landing

  • waterate breaks in

  • Nixon resigns

    August 9 1974
    Resigned in face of almost certain impeachment.

  • invention of the internet

    January 1 1983
    hurray

  • fall of berlin wall

  • the 9/11 attacks

    9/11/2001
    “And there went the twin towers” 