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The invention of the Model T
The first Ford Model T was built. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. -
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US History Timeline (1917-2001)
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The WWI Armistice
The Armistice was the agreement that ended fighting on land, sea, and air in World War I -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment granted Women the right to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
The Spirit of Louis completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic ocean with Charles Lindbergh flying it. -
Black Thursday
Panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange and investors suffered $5 billion in losses. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. -
Hitler Invades Poland
Hitler Invaded Poland. -
The Munich Pact
The Munich Pact was an agreement between France and Nazi Germany, that France would not provide military assistance to Czechoslovakia in the upcoming German occupation of "Sudetenland", effectively dishonoring French-Czechoslovak alliance -
Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor -
D-Day
The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
The formation of United Nations
The Formation of the United Nations, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations. -
The Long Telegram
Practical deductions from standpoint of US policy received back an 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan, an Embassy official. It became known as The Long Telegram. -
The formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
Russia acquired the Atomic bomb. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. -
Brown v Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark the United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, with U.S. involvement ending in 1973. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus 60 years ago. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba -
JFK’s Assassination
the 35th President of the United States, John F Kennedy was Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: the Gulf of Tonkin Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. -
The Watergate Break-ins
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal. -
Nixon’s Resignation
Richard Nixon's resignation speech was an address by President of the United States Richard Nixon to the American public. -
The invention of the Internet
The Invention of the internet! -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall the divided Germany Fell. -
The 9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States
