US History B Timeline By Abby123456 Oct 1, 1908 The invention of the Model T Jan 16, 1917 The Zimmerman Telegram Nov 11, 1918 The WWI Armistice Aug 18, 1920 The 19th Amendment (U.S. women’s suffrage) May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh’s Flight (first solo nonstop transatlantic flight Oct 24, 1929 Black Thursday (stock market crash) 1933 The New Deal (start of Roosevelt's policies) Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Sep 30, 1938 The Munich Pact (appeasement with Hitler) Sep 1, 1939 Hitler Invades Poland Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack Aug 6, 1943 Hiroshima & Nagasaki (Atomic bombings) Jun 6, 1944 D-Day (Normandy Invasion) Oct 24, 1945 The formation of the United Nations Feb 2, 1946 The Long Telegram (by George Kennan) Apr 4, 1948 The formation of NATO Aug 29, 1949 Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb Jun 25, 1950 The Korean War May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education (Supreme Court ruling) Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat Oct 16, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK’s Assassination Aug 7, 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1968 The invention of the Internet (early development of ARPANET) Jul 20, 1969 The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Jun 17, 1972 The Watergate Break-ins Aug 9, 1974 Nixon’s Resignation Nov 1, 1975 The Vietnam War Nov 9, 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Sep 11, 2001 The 9/11 Attacks Dec 31, 2019 Covid-19 Pandemic