US History B Timeline

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  • Invention of the Model T

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    Secret diplomatic communication which proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the US entered WWI against Germany.

  • WWI Armistice

    Truce made to end fighting on land, sea, and air between the Allies and Germany.

  • 19th Amendment

    The right to vote shall not be denied on the basis of sex.

  • Charles Lindbergh's Flight

    First non-stop flight between NYC to Paris.

  • Black Thursday

    The stock market dropped 11% overnight. Panicked selling ensued.

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

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    The New Deal

    Programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by Franklin Roosevelt.

  • The Munich Pact

    British and French prime ministers sign an agreement with Adolf Hitler.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor Bombing

  • D-Day

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    Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings

  • Formation of UN

  • The Long Telegram

  • Formation of NATO

  • Russians Acquire Atomic Bomb

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    Korean War

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    Brown v. Board of Education

    Determined racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional.
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    Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks Bus Incident

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK's Assassination

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Allowed President Johnson to take any measures necessary to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in SE Asia.
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    Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • Watergate Scandal

  • Nixon's Resignation

  • Invention of the Internet

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • 9/11 Attacks

  • Covid-19 Pandemic