US History B Timeline

By lydiae

  • Invention of the Model T

  • Zimmerman Telegram

  • World War 1 Armistice

  • The 19th Amendment

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

  • Black Thursday

    wall street crash, the start of the Great Depression.

  • The New Deal

    programs enacted by FDR to help recover the nation during the Great Depression

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

  • The Munich Pact

    An agreement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy that allowed the annexation of Western Czechoslovakia.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-day

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    America dropped the atomic bomb on Japan and ended the war.

  • The Formation of the United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

    A message sent to the Secretary of State outlining a different strategy for diplomacy toward the Soviet Union.

  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the atomic bomb

  • The Korean War

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Supreme Court ruling that said that segregation in public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and unconstitutional.

  • The Vietnam War

  • 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 Invention of the Internet

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • 9/11 Attacks