US History B Timeline

  • The Invention of the Model T

    The Model T was the first car designed and made by Henry Ford, and the first widely accessible.
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    A telegram discovered that was sent to Mexico during WWI that threatened the United States of America.
  • WWI Armistice

    The first step towards the end of WWI.
  • The 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment guarantees that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of gender.
  • Charles Lindbergh's Flight

    The first solo and nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Black Thursday

    Black Thursday was the start of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
  • The New Deal

    It helped restore America's economy by putting people back to work and saving capitalism.
  • The Munich Pact

    This agreement averted a war, but gave Czechoslovakia to Germany.
  • Hitler Invades Poland

    The start of WWII.
  • Pear Harbor

    Pearl Harbor was the surprise attack by the Japanese on US Pacific Fleet that threw America into WWII.
  • D-Day

    160,000 Allied troops landed on a heavily defended French coastline and fought the Germans at Normandy, France.
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    This was the bombing of the two Japanese cities that led to Japan's surrender.
  • The Formation of the United Nations

    International organization committed to maintaining international peace.
  • The Long Telegram

    An 8,000 word telegram about Stalin's foreign policy that was sent by Kennan.
  • The Formation of NATO

    NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Russians Acquire the Atomic Bomb

    Soviets successfully test their first nuclear device.
  • The Korean War

  • Brown v Board of Education

    This case stripped constitutional sanctions for segregation by race.
  • The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat

    Refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a crowded bus.
  • Invention of the Internet

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Crisis over war heads with the Soviet Union.
  • JFK Assassination

    The assassination of Pres. Kennedy in Dallas, TX.
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon's Resignation

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks

  • COVID-19 Pandemic