US History B Timeline

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  • The invention of the Model T

    The first automobile created by Ford Motor Company

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    An alliance proposed by Germany to Mexico

  • The WWI Armistice

    An Armstice which ended fighting between the Allies and Germany

  • The 19th Amendment

    The prohbition of the denial of voting rights by state or federal government based of gender.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    The first successful flight across the Atlantic

  • Black Thursday

    Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapse.

  • The New Deal

    Financial reforms and regulations pushed into motion by President Roosevelt.

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    Hitler is sworn in as chancelor

  • The Munich Pact

    France and Germany agree that France will not provide any military assistance to Czechoslovakia

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    Germany attacks Poland marking the beginning of World War II

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

    Soviet Atomic Bomb Project started with the authorization of Joseph Stalin

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service

  • D-Day

    Allied forces invade Normandy

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    The United States detonates nuclear weapons over Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • The formation of United Nations

    Intergovernmental orginization tasked with keeping national peac is created.

  • The Long Telegram

    George Kennan sends 8000 word telegram

  • The formation of NATO

    Military alliance between American and European governments.

  • The Korean War

    War between North and South Korea

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Supreme court declares segregated schools unconstitutional

  • The Vietnam War

    Resistance war against America

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger.

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviets

  • JFK’s Assassination

    President John F. Kennedy is assasinated

  • The Gulf of Ton-kin Resolution

    Johnson asks Congress to increase military presence in IndoChina

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    Apollo 11 lands on the moon with Astronauts

  • The Watergate Break-ins

    Political Scandal

  • Nixon’s Resignation

    Nixon resigns

  • The invention of the Internet

    Internet is created

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Berlin wall destroyed

  • The 9/11 Attacks

    Terrorist attacks against the United States