US History B Timeline By itsrileyv Oct 1, 1908 The Invention of the Model T Jan 16, 1917 The Zimmerman Telegram Nov 11, 1918 The WWI Armistice (End of WWI) Aug 18, 1920 The 19th Amendment (Women’s Suffrage) Period: May 20, 1927 to May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh’s Flight (First solo nonstop transatlantic flight) Oct 24, 1929 Black Thursday (Stock market crash leading to the Great Depression) Period: 1933 to 1939 The New Deal (Franklin D. Roosevelt’s policies) Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Sep 30, 1937 The Munich Pact Sep 1, 1939 Hitler Invades Poland (Start of WWII) Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack Feb 22, 1944 The Long Telegram Jun 6, 1944 D-Day 1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki (Atomic bombings by the US) Oct 24, 1945 The formation of the United Nations Apr 4, 1949 The formation of NATO Aug 29, 1949 Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 The Korean War May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1973 The Vietnam War Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat Oct 16, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK’s Assassination Aug 7, 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (US involvement in Vietnam) 1969 The invention of the Internet (Development of ARPANET) Jul 20, 1969 The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Jun 17, 1972 The Watergate Break-ins (Nixon scandal) Aug 9, 1974 Nixon’s Resignation Nov 9, 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Sep 11, 2001 The 9/11 Attacks 2019 Covid-19 Pandemic