US History B Timeline

By elizabailor

  • Invention of the Model T

  • Zimmermann Telegram

    It was sent January 16, 1917, but made public in March 1, 1917

  • World War I Armistice

  • 19th Amendment (Women’s Suffrage)

    This was ratified August 18, 1920 (proclaimed August 26, 1920)

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Transatlantic Flight

    It also went through the 21, so it lasted 2 days.

  • Black Thursday (Stock Market Crash)

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    The New Deal

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Munich Pact

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day (Normandy Invasion)

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    Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    August 6, 1945 (Hiroshima); August 9, 1945 (Nagasaki)

  • Formation of the United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

  • Formation of NATO

  • Soviet Union Acquires the Atomic Bomb

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    Korean War

  • Brown v. Board of Education

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    Vietnam War (U.S. involvement)

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    It started the 16 and ended the 28.

  • Assassination of JFK

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • Invention of the Internet (TCP/IP adopted)

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

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    COVID-19 Pandemic

    First identified December 2019; declared a global pandemic March 11, 2020; then declared over May 5, 2023