US History B Timeline

By hannahbabcock19

  • The invention of the Model T

    Henry Ford used a moving assembly line to allow workers to work on what they were best at all day. He also made the 'common man's car' at a lower price then ever before seen. It changed the way America traveled, people traveled more, and it transformed the way we settled the country, the car was a ticket to freedom. Oct 01, 1908

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    The coded telegram message was sent by German Arthur Zimmermann, to Mexico's President, asking them to join in war against America if America declared war against Germany. Luckily, Britain intercepted it, America got word, and then declared War on Germany.

  • The WWI Armistice

    The document signed ended the war on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

  • The 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    The first person to fly from New York to Paris without stops.

  • Black Thursday

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    New Deal

    New Deal, that aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. More than that, Roosevelt’s New Deal permanently changed the federal government’s relationship to the U.S. populace.1933–1937

  • Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

    Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

  • New Deal

    New Deal, that aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. More than that, Roosevelt’s New Deal permanently changed the federal government’s relationship to the U.S. populace.1933–1937

  • The Munich Pact

  • Hitler invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks America

  • D-Day

    America launches attack on Germany, many die

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Dropping the worlds first world atom bomb, killing millions and ruining the lives of even more.

  • The formation of United Nations

  • The formation of United Nations

  • Long Telegram

  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

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    The Korean War

  • Brown v Board of Education

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    The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

    October 14, 1962 – October 28, 1962

  • John F. Kennedy’s Assassination

    November 22, 1963

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    August 7, 1964

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    uly 16, 1969 – July 24, 1969

  • The Watergate Break-ins

    January 30, 1973

  • Nixon’s Resignation

    August 9, 1974

  • The invention of the Internet

    January 1, 1983

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    November 9, 1989

  • The 9/11 Attacks

    On September 11, 2001