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Henry Ford unveils his invention and his factories make a cheaper and more efficient way to make them make it affordable for the average American.
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The Zimmerman Telegram was sent by the Germans the Mexican government to try and convince them to side with the Germans and attack the United States.
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WW1 ends!
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The 19th Amendment guarantees that women have the right to vote.
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Charles Lindbergh flies nonstop from New York to Paris solo.
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The stock market crashes, causing the United States to fall into a depression.
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FDR comes up with "The New Deal" as a way to get people jobs and out of poverty.
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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
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The Munich Pact gave Germany parts of German-speaking Czechoslovakia in hopes that it would permenatly satisfy Hitler.
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Hitler Invades Poland, causing WW2.
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The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into the war.
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The Allied Forces launch an attack on German-held territories in France.
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki were each destroyed using an atomic bomb, anilating both cities.
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The United Nations is founded.
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George Kennan pushes his anti-communist views in "The Long Telegram."
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The a millitary alliance, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is founded in April 1949.
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Because of Brown v Board of Education, segregation is now illigal in public schools.
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Americans discover that the Russians are bringing missiles to Cuba and put a naval blockade around the island until the Russians agree to remove the missiles if the Unided States doesn't attack Cuba.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution enables the president to take any means necessary to protect the United States, resating ing the Vietnam war.
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First men land on the moon.
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A couple burgale are caught after breaking into Watergate, taping phones and stealing important documents.
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President Nixon resigns.
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Many brilliant minds come together, and over the course of the next few decades leads to the invention of the Internet.
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall unites a once divided Berlin.
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Terrorists hijacked a couple planes and purposely crashed them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.