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The invention of the Model T
The Model T was the first car to be widely owned by middle class people because it was "affordable and reliable" for that time anyway. -
Zimmermann Telegram
A secret diplomatic communication sent by Germany to Mexico with the intent to have Mexico join Germany if the United States joins the war. -
The WWI Armistice
The WWI Armistice is what officially ended WWI at 11:00am on 11/11/1918 -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment gave Women the right to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean. He was 25 years old at the time he made this achievement and He ended the flight in Pairs, France. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday was the worst market crash in history, this is one event that help caused the Great Depression. -
The New Deal
the New Deal aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans how had lost their jobs in the Great Depression.
The New Deal's made some impact but it didn't end the Great Depression.
Great Depression would end when The US entered WWII. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
Adolf Hitler is named leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
The Munich Pact
In the spring of 1938, Hitler began openly to support the demands of German-speakers living in the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia for closer ties with Germany. Hitler had recently annexed Austria into Germany, and the conquest of Czechoslovakia was the next step in his plan of creating a “greater Germany.” -
Hitler Invades Poland
German forces invade Poland with support from Soviet forces, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, and was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces.
Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. -
D-Day
D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, the world’s first war time atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan announced it's unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.” -
The formation of United Nations
The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better negotiating peace than was provided by The League of Nations. The Second World War became the real impetus for the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union to begin formulating the original U.N. Declaration, signed by 26 nations in January 1942, as an act of opposition to the Axis Powers. Two other important objectives described in the Charter were equal rights and international cooperation in solving world problems. -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan, the American charge d’affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. Kennan’s opinion was that the Soviet Union would would try to expand their sphere of influence for more power. The Long Telegram is what influenced U.S. policy toward the communist state during the Cold War. -
The formation of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the event that Communist tried to expand into their countries. The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe did not like this and founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. This alignment of nearly every European nation into opposing camps provided the framework for the military of the Cold War. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb. On September 3, a U.S. spy plane flying off the coast of Siberia picked up the first evidence of radioactivity from the explosion. On November 1, 1952, the United States successfully detonated “Mike,” the world’s first hydrogen bomb. Three years later, on November 22, 1955, the Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb on the same principle of radiation implosion. -
The Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. Meanwhile, American officials worked on an armistice with the North Koreans. The alternative, they feared, World War III. On July 1953, the Korean War ended. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War pitted North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States who would enter the war in 1964. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, Rosa Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. The leaders of the black community organized a bus boycott that began the day Parks was convicted of violating the segregation laws. The boycott lasted more than a year and ended only when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over Soviet missiles on Cuba. On October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey. -
JFK’s Assassination
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, Sitting in a Lincoln convertible. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots. Killing President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” by the communist government of North Vietnam. It was passed on August 7, 1964, by the U.S. Congress after an alleged attack on two U.S. naval destroyers stationed off the coast of Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launched America’s full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War. -
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The invention of the Internet
Unlike technologies such as the light bulb or the telephone, the Internet has no single “inventor.” Instead, it has evolved over time. The Internet got its start in the United States as a government weapon in the Cold War. For years, scientists and researchers used it to communicate and share data with one another. Today, we use the Internet for almost everything, and for many people it would be impossible to imagine life without it. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John Kennedy announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. -
The Watergate Break-ins
The Watergate scandal began early in the morning of June 17, 1972, when several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery: The prowlers were connected to President Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been wiretapping phones and stealing documents. Nixon took steps to cover up the crime, and in August 1974, after his role was revealed, Nixon resigned. -
Nixon’s Resignation
President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. “By taking this action,” he said in a solemn address, “I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.” This man is a Rat. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced "Starting at midnight that today" he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. East and West Berliners flocked to the wall, chanting “Tor auf!” (“Open the gate!”). At midnight, they flooded through the checkpoints. -
The 9/11 Attacks
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which triggered major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism.