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Henry Ford's simple, affordable, and durable vehicle. One of the first inventions to be mass-produced.
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Secret German proposal for alliance with Mexico if America entered World War I against Germany
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Armistice signed to end fighting between the Allies and the last remaining opponent, Germany
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Gives voting rights to women
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Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history
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First day of the Stock Market Crash of 1929
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Franklin Roosevelt's series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations.
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Hitler attains power and expanded authority
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Agreement between Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy, averting war by giving Czechoslovakia away to German conquest.
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe
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Surprise military strike on American soil by the Japanese Navy Air Service
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The Soviet investigation and development of nuclear weapons
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Largest seaborne invasion in history---Allied forces land in Normandy during World War II
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The United States detonates two nuclear bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Founding of an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for national harmonization.
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George Kennan's telegram detailing his opinion on how dangerous the Soviet Union was at the time
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Founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is an intergovernmental military alliance.
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The war between North and South Korea, initiated by North Korea's invasion of South Korea following clashes between the two.
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US Supreme Court rules that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional
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Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama
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The war was fought officially between North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies, while South Vietnam was backed by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand, and other anti-communist allies.
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A tense political and military standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated near the end of his third year in office
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President Johnson is given authority to take any necessary measure to promote international peace and security in southeast Asia
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The first time humans landed on the moon
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Burglars linked to President Nixon's re-election campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at Watergate
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President Richard Nixon announces his resignation from the presidency because of the Watergate scandal
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Forthcoming of the standardized way with which computer networks could communicate
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The wall between East and West Berlin falls, both figuratively and physically, as citizens are now free to cross through the border
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Series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by Islamic group al-Qaeda against the United States.
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The global pandemic of the coronavirus disease