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United States Timeline between 1900-2000

By jdyer2013
  • The Galveston, Texas hurricane

    The Galveston, Texas hurricane

    with winds of 135 miles an hour, kills 8,000 people. It remains the most deadly natural disaster in American history. It was not named, during that era, and would have been a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale today.
  • United States joins allies in WWI

    United States joins allies in WWI

    Four days after receiving the request from President Woodrow Wilson, the United States Congress declares war on Germany and join the allies in World War I.
  • Spanish Flu

    Spanish Flu

    The influenza epidemic Spanish flu spans the globe, killing over twenty million worldwide and five hundred and forty-eight thousand people in the United States.
  • Woman are given the right to vote in the U.S.

    Woman are given the right to vote in the U.S.

    Women are given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States constitution grants universal women's suffrage. Also known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment, in recognition of her important campaign to win the right to vote.
  • Start of the Great Depression

    Start of the Great Depression

    Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history.
  • The U.S. enters WWII after the attack of Pear Harbor

    The U.S. enters WWII after the attack of Pear Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when Japanese fighter planes launch a surprise attack on United States soil, destroying the U.S. Pacific Fleet docked at the base. This attack, which took the greatest amount of U.S. naval life in history, led to the entry of American troops into World War II. On December 11, 1941, the United States declares war on Germany and Italy, responding to their declaration of war against America.
  • Racial Segregation becomes against the law.

    Racial Segregation becomes against the law.

    Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education. The ruling of the court stated that racial segregation violated the 14th Amendment's clause that guaranteed equal protection.
  • President John F. Kennedy is Assassinated

    President John F. Kennedy is Assassinated

    In Dallas, Texas, during a motorcade through downtown, President John F. Kennedy is mortally wounded by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
  • First US woman in space

    First US woman in space

    Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman to travel into space.
  • 9/11 Terrorist Attack in the US

    9/11 Terrorist Attack in the US

    Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. The fourth plane is heroically crashed by passengers into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania cornfield when they learn of the plot, preventing destruction of another structure in Washington, D.C.