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10/1/1908: The Model T, the first universal car, is shipped to it’s first customer after being personally tested by Henry Ford, it’s creator. It is cheap, reliable, and durable, and made vehicular travel a longterm option for the public.
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Germany sends a telegram to Mexico proposing a military alliance between the two if America enters WW1. Mexico would win back Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
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The armistice between Germany and the Allied Powers is signed. Most important treaty is the Treaty of Versailles, because it spurns Germany so bad it allows Hitler to rise up again 20 years later.
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19th amendment is passed. Women are given the right to vote.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo, nonstop trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris.
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An unforeseen amount of New York Stock Exchange shares changes hands, leading to a crash. This is seen as the first day of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which lasted from late October to mid November.
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A series of reforms from president FDR. They created socialized programs and agencies like the Social Security Agency, the Farmers Security Administration, the Civil Works Aministration, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the Civilian Conservation Corps. These were all created in response to the wall street crash of 1929.
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Adolf Hitler is named chancellor by German president Paul von Hindenburg, as leader of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (or the Nazi Party).
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9/30/1938: English and French negotiators sign the Munich Pact, temporarily forestalling war, but giving Adolf Hitler Czechoslovokia.
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Hitler storms Poland and almost immediately takes Warsaw with Soviet forces. This initiates WW2 and shows that Hitler is bent on world-domination.
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Japan surprise attacks American naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, destroying many warships. The idea was to cripple U.S. naval power before it entered the war, giving the Japanese the advantage in the Pacific theater, and perhaps intimidate America from entering the war at all.
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Allied forces land at Normandy Beach, France, establishing a beachhead on continental, Nazi-held Europe.
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America, after repeatedly warning Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, launch two nuclear attacks against them. This was done in an attempt to break Japanese will to fight and save approximately a million American soldiers’ lives, in a land invasion of the country.
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The UN is formed (led by America) to further international cooperation between free nations and strengthen the bond between said free nations.
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American ambassador George F. Kennan sends a telegram to U.S. Secretary of State warning of Soviet antagonism and possible future conflict.
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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is a military alliance formed in order to provide security to its members from Marxist powers.
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Russia detonates it’s first atomic bomb, named RDS-1. This elevates Russia to a serious threat to international security.
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75,000 Soviet-backed North Korean soldiers invade South Korea. The U.S. intervened on behalf of the South Koreans, and pushed the North Koreans back to the 38th parallel. The demilitarized zone still stands today and is considered the first conflict of the Cold War.
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A court case taken to the supreme court, ruling that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. This leads to widespread protests of racism, and is one of the first major events in the fight for racial equality.
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Soviet forces, in response to American positioning of ICBMs in Turkey, position ICBMs in Cuba. After a month, both forces remove their missiles from Cuba and Turkey.
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JFK is assassinated by allegedly communist-affiliated Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Congress gives Lyndon B. Johnson permission to do whatever necessary to maintain peace and security in southeast Asia. This leads to the Vietnam War
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American astronauts land the Apollo 11 mooncraft on the moon. This was done in a sort of overachievement in the Soviet-American space race, which was important because of the tactical advantage of an orbital strike.
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5 thieves were arrested breaking into the Democratic Party Headquarters at the Watergate hotel. On them was found $3,500, which was traced back to the Nixon Administration.
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Nixon resigns, realizing that the Watergate scandal has eroded his public support.
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The internet is invented, with the express purpose of being an instantaneous method of communication and data storage for the U.S. military. It is the successor to the ARPANET.
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The Berlin Wall, dividing East Germany from West Germany, falls. This symbolizes the fall of the USSR and the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
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Islamic terrorists, privately sponsored by al Queda, fly two planes into the WTC, one into the Pentagon, and another which was suspected of being targeted at the White House. This is perhaps the biggest event in the War on Terror and leads to the Patriot Act and other similar legislation being passed.
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The CCP, in response to resistance from the Hong Kong provincial government, releases the virus commonly known as Covid-19 into the revolting city. From there it spreads globally, causing relatively minimal loss of life. International response to this virus is increased governmental control over businesses and individuals worldwide, faulty scientific reporting, and the biggest joint government-corporation propaganda campaign, perhaps since the end of the Cold War. Burn the mask