US History B Timeline By Lance D. Oct 1, 1908 Ford Model T is completed Jan 16, 1917 Zimmerman Telegram intercepted Nov 11, 1918 WWI Armistice Aug 18, 1920 19th Amendment is passed May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh's flight Oct 24, 1929 Black Thursday Period: 1933 to 1939 The New Deal Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor Sep 29, 1938 Munich Pact signed Sep 1, 1939 Invasion of Poland begins Period: 1940 to 1949 Russia develops atomic bomb Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Aug 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 Bombing of Nagasaki Oct 24, 1945 The United Nations is formed Feb 22, 1946 The Long Telegram Apr 4, 1949 NATO is formed Jun 25, 1950 Start of Korean War Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Armistice signed May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education finished Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat Oct 28, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ends Nov 22, 1963 JFK's Assasination Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing Jun 17, 1972 Watergate Break-ins Aug 9, 1974 Nixon resigns Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall falls 1995 The Internet is commercialized Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Attacks