U.S History Combined With Fritz G. A.'s Life

By geek3.8

  • Fritz is born

  • Stock Market Crashes

    Who: The U.S.
    What: On October 24, 1929 (known as ‘Black Thursday’) was when stocks hit rock bottom and everyone who had bought shares in companies tried to pull out their shares but the bank didn’t have the money. This was one of the biggest causes of the Great Depression. Quote: “my father had pulled his stocks long before the market crashed so we didn’t lose a lot of money and my friends were the same way”

  • World War II begins

  • First Peacetime Draft

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

  • G.I Bill Signed Into Law

  • Hitler Found Dead By Suicide

  • Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The U.S. dropped 2 atomic bomb on Japan, killing over 200,000 people. The long lasted effects include radiation poisoning, new types of cancers, birth defects, and environmental damage. This was the event that ended WWII and forced Japan into submission. Quote: “... No of course I remember when the first bomb went off... I went home from the war in Europe rolling across fights in a boxcar... and then we heard that the bomb went off. Went home on leave, and then I was discharged soon after.”

  • Cold War Begins

  • Korean War Begins

  • McCarthy Discredited in Hearings

  • School Segregation is deemed Unconstitutional by Supreme Court

  • The First Hydrogen Bomb Developed and Tested

  • John F. Kennedy Becomes President

  • John F. Kennedy Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

  • Neil Armstrong Walks On The Moon

  • U.S signs peace act and pulls troops out of Vietnam

  • Watergate scandal

  • The Space Shuttle, Challenger, Explodes

  • Berlin Wall Comes Down

  • World Wide Web Invented

  • Google Introduces Search Engine To The Web

  • School Shooting at Columbine High School

  • Terrorist Attack On Twin Towers

  • US and Britain Launches War Against Iraq

  • First “Iphone” introduced