U.S. History Timeline Semester 2 By stressedd Oct 1, 1908 The First Model T Jan 15, 1917 The Zimmerman Telegraph Nov 11, 1918 The WWI Armistice Aug 18, 1920 The Ratification of the 19th Amendment May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh's Flight Oct 24, 1929 Black Thursday Period: Jan 15, 1933 to Jan 15, 1938 The New Deal Jan 30, 1933 Hitler Becomes Chancellor Sep 30, 1938 The Munich Pact Sep 1, 1939 Hitler Invades Poland Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki Oct 24, 1945 United Nations is Formed Feb 22, 1946 The Long Telegram Apr 4, 1949 NATO is Formed Aug 29, 1949 Russians Acquire Atomic Bomb Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 The Vietnam War Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks Refuses to Give up her seat Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK's Assasination Aug 7, 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Jul 20, 1969 The Landing of the Apollo May 15, 1972 The Watergate Scandal Aug 9, 1974 Nixon Resigns Jan 1, 1983 The Internet's Invention Nov 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Attacks