US History B

By myacate

  • Invention of the Model T

  • Zimmermann Telegraph

    Germany secretly asks for Mexico's help in WWI in exchange for reclaiming Mexican territory from the US.

  • WWI Armistice

    Fighting is officially stopped.

  • 19th Amendment

    Women are enfranchised!

  • Charles Lindburgh Transatlantic Flight

    New York to Paris.

  • Black Thursday

    First day of the stock market crash
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    The New Deal

    FDR's federal programs attempting to fix the Great Depression.

  • Hitler Become Chancellor

  • Munich Pact

    Germany is allowed to annex Czechoslovakia.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

  • D-Day

    Allied Forces land on five beaches in Normandy, France.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Atomic bomb is dropped by Americans on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Nagasaki is bombed on Aug. 9, three days later.

  • Formation of United Nations

  • Long Telegraph

    George Keenan sends an 8,000 word telegraph to the Secretary of State concerning US view on Communist Russia.

  • Formation of NATO

  • Russians Test First Atomic Bomb

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    Korean War

    North and South Korea are fighting. N is backed by Soviets; S is backed by Americans.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are unconstitutional.
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    Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Move

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    JFK announces that Soviet missile sheds have been found in Cuba.

  • JFK Assassination

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • Watergate Scandal

  • Nixon Resigns

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Invention of the Internet

  • 9/11 Attacks