U.S. History B Timeline

By Ayden Hutton

  • invention of the model t

  • The Zimmermann Telegram

  • WW1 Armistice

  • The 19th Amendment

  • Charles Lindbergh's Flight

  • Black Thursday

    (start of market crash)

  • The New Deal begins

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • The Munich Pact

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    (start of WW2)

  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • The Long Telegram

    (written Feb 22, 1946, but historically tied to 1945–46 postwar context)

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

  • Formation of the United Nations

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

  • Formation of NATO

  • The Korean War (start)

  • The Korean War (end)

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • The Vietnam War (start)

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • U.S. escalation mainly (start)

  • Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • Watergate Break‑ins

  • U.S. escalation mainly (end)

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The Vietnam War (end)

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Invention of the Internet

    early 1990s

  • public adoption begins

  • 9/11 Attacks

  • COVID‑19 Pandemic begins globally