US history B timeline

By Lincolnboss

  • The invention of the Model T

    The first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit.

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    Germans try to get Mexico to attack the US and the US enters WWI.
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    US history B timeline

  • The WWI Armistice

    Fighting in World War I came to an end following the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany that called for a ceasefire effective at 11 a.m.– it was on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

  • The 19th Amendment

    Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    Charles Augustus Lindbergh-Overview.
    Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974), an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Black Thursday

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The supposed one thousand year Reich had started. But it would be another nineteen months before Hitler achieved absolute power.

  • The New Deal

    Great Depression Leads to a New Deal for the American People. On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington's Capitol Plaza.

  • The Munich Pact

    A deal was reached on 29 September, and at about 1:30 am on 30 September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.

  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

  • The formation of United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

  • The Korean War Begins

  • The Korean War ends

  • Brown v Board of Education

  • The Vietnam War begins

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The Vietnam War ends

  • The invention of the Internet

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks