US History B Timeline

By MicaelaRoth

  • The invention of the Model T

    Ford motor company
  • Period: to

    US History B Timeline

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico

  • The WWI Armistice

    ended WWI

  • The 19th Amendment

    grants women the right to vote

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    The world's first nonstop transatlantic flight
    Ends 05/21/1927

  • Black Thursday

    worst stock market crash in U.S. history

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • The New Deal

    1933-1941

  • The Munich Pact

    It provided "cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory" of Czechoslovakia

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor

    results in US entry into WWII

  • D-Day

    Normandy landings in France

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Bombings on 08/06 & 08/09 respectively.

  • The formation of the United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

    Sent by George Kennan

  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

    Evidence of first atomic explosion in Russia

  • The Korean War starts

    ends 07/27/1953

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Supreme Court decision about school segregation

  • The Vietnam War

    ends 04/30/1975

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    ignites bus boycott

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    ends 10/28

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    A joint resolution "To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia."

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

    investigations from 1972-1974

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The invention of the Internet

    the world wide web

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks