US History 2016 Timeline By Luke_Kaschmitter Oct 1, 1908 First Model T Assembled Dec 19, 1917 Zimmerman Telegraph Sent The Zimmerman Telegraph is sent. Nov 11, 1918 World War I Armistice Signed Aug 26, 1920 19th Amendment Passed May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh Flies from New York to Paris Oct 24, 1929 Black Thursday: Stock Market Crashes Period: Jan 1, 1933 to Jan 1, 1938 Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Jan 30, 1933 Hitler is Named Chancellor Sep 30, 1938 The Munich Pact Signed Sep 1, 1939 Hitler Invades Poland Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack Sep 12, 1942 Russians Acquire the Atomic Bomb Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima Bomb Dropped Aug 9, 1945 Nagasaki Bomb Dropped Oct 24, 1945 United Nations Officially Formed Feb 22, 1946 The Long Telegram Sent Apr 4, 1949 NATO Formed Jun 25, 1950 The Korean War Begins May 17, 1954 Brown Versus Board of Education Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat Oct 15, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Started Nov 22, 1963 JFK's Assasination Aug 7, 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Jul 20, 1969 Americans First Landed on the Moon Jun 17, 1972 Watergate Break-Ins Aug 28, 1974 Richard Nixon Resigns Sep 12, 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Jan 1, 1991 The Invention of the World Wide Web Sep 11, 2001 9-11 Attacks