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Impeachment
Impeachment hearings are begun by the House Judiciary Committee against President Richard M. Nixon in the Watergate affair. On July 24, the United States Supreme Court rules that President Nixon must turn over the sixty-four tapes of White House conversations concerning the Watergate break-in. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed
Heir to the Austiran throne was assassinated along with his wife by Gavrilo Princip. -
Germany invades Belgium
Germany invaded Britian by following the Schlieffen Plan. -
Germans Halted
Unable to save belgium, allies halt the Germans at the Marne Rivier in France. -
Lusitania
A german u-boat sank the British liner the Lustania off the southern coast of Ireland. This was one of the worst disaster. -
Arabic
Another u boat sunk a British liner , drowning 2 Americans. This outraged the Americans and the Untied States protested and Germany agreed not to sink anymore passanger ships. -
Sussex
Germany broke their promise and sunk another passanger ship about 80 passanger including Americans were killed. America protested once again amd warned that if it happened again they would break off diplomatic relations with germany -
Battle of Somme
The battle of Somme lasted until mid November. The British suffered 60,000 casualtiesthe first day alone. Final casualties total was 1.2 million. -
President
President Wilson is elected by the Democrats. -
Germans ignore message.
President Wilsons messange to the alliances fails and Germany anounces that all ships in British waters will be sunk weather neautral or hostile. But the President did not redecalre war until "actual overt acts". The Germans sent a telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico but it was intercepted by the British. It was known as the Zimmerman Note -
Selective Service Act
Reguired men to sign up with the Government in order to be randomly selectedfor the military services. -
America declares war
U.s Declares war on Germany -
British Blockade
The British blockade was formed. It blockaded the German Coast to prevent weapens and other military supplies from getting through. While doing this the food was also blocked and an estimated 750,000 Germans died of starvation. This outraged the Americans. -
WIthdraws
Russia withdrawls from the War -
War Industries Board
Created in 1917, but was not recognized until 1918 by Bernarad M. Baruch. -
War ends
THe first world war ends. -
Stike
John L. Lewis started a strike n the coal mines in protestof low wages and long wordays. -
Prohibition
The eightenth went into effect and launched the era of prohibition whichmade it illegal to manufacture, sale, and transport any alchohal. -
Sacoo and Vanzetti
Arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory pay master and his guard in South Braintree. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a literary and artisitc movement celebrating African American culture -
Amelia Earhart
Was to undertake many brave aerial exploits, inspired by Charles Lindberghs example. -
Black Tuesday
On this day the stock market crashed. -
Womens and voting
Women shed most of their household duties and were granted many new oppurtunites like the right to vote. -
The radio
The Radio came to age.It became the most powerful communication device to emerage in the 1920s. -
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Raised taxes n domr u.s imports to 60 percent. the highest level ever -
President
In the 1920s Warren G. Harding was president, he soon died and Calivin Cooliadge toke his place. -
The Scopes Trail
In 1925 Tennesse passed the nations first law that made it a crime to teach evolution. John T Scopes a young biology teacher in Dayton Tennesse accepted that challange to teach evoultion so that the ACLU would defend him. The trail was a fight overr evoultion and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American history. The trail ended on July 10, 1925. -
First women to swim the neglish Channel
Gertrude Ederle became the first women to swim the English Channel at age 19. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
may 20, 1927, he took off from New York in the spirit of saint louis , flew up the coast of Newfoundland and headed over the Atlantic. he was the first to fly non stop solo across the Atlantic ocean. -
Best Car!
Henry Ford introduces the Model T in the 1920s. -
Hoover
herbert Hoover become's president -
Babe Ruth
Babe ruth was a New York Yankees sluggerwho became a legand for his60 homeruns in the 1920s -
Boulder Dam
7626 ft hugh and 1,244 ft long it would be the worlds tallest dam and the second largest. It would generate electricity. -
Al Capone arrested
Al Capone was arrested finally for tax evasion. -
Helping banks
By March 9, Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 -
Fireside Chats
On March 12, FDR delivers the first of what came to be known as his "fireside chats." In his initial "chat" he appeals to the nation to join him in "banishing fear." -
New Deal
On taking office FDR's administration kaunched a period of intense activity known as the hundred days -
President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president. -
18h amendment repealed
The 18th amendemnt was repealed by the 21st amendment which now made it legal to drink -
Dust Bowl
When the drought and winds began in the early 1930s little grass and tress were there to cover the grounds and hold top soil down. Top soil was scattered and exposed sand and grit underneath. The dust traveled hundreds of miles. -
Critics of the New Deal
Father Charles E. Coughlin establishes the Union for Social Justice. Using the radio airwaves as his pulpit, Father Coughlin railes against "predatory capitalism." His criticism of the banking industry and disdain of communism soon dovetails into a troubling gospel of anti-Semitism. -
Sec
Congress creates the Secerites and Exchange commision to regulate the stock market -
Photograpghy
Photographer Dorothea Lange visits a pea-pickers' camp in California's San Joaquin Valley and takes photographs of harvest workers. The images, especially those in the "Migrant Mother Series," vividly illustrate the plight of the workers. The San Francisco News runs the photo essay under the headline, "Ragged, Hungry, Broke, Harvest Workers Live in Squallor (sic)." -
Reelected
Defeating Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon, FDR is elected to his second term as president, winning every state in the Union except Maine and Vermont. -
Strikes
Labor unions begin sit down strikes -
Kristallnacht
Kristalnacht otherwise known as "night of glass. Storm Troopers attacked jewish homes, buisnesses, and synaggougues. -
Non Aggressopm Pact
Stalin and Hitler signed the pact. It was a suprise beacuse they were once bitter enimies. -
Hawley- Smoot Tariff
The highest protective tarrif in United States history. It was designed o protect Americans from forgeign manufactorer competition. -
President.
Roosevelt is elected to a third term -
Soviet Union
Hilter invades the soviet union. -
Lend Lease act
program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939 but nine months before the U.S. entered the war in December 1941. Formally titled An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States, the Act effectively ended the United States' pretense of -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bomb Pearl Habor -
Battle of Bulge
Tnaks drove 60 miles into Allied territory creating a buldge in the lines that gave the desperate last ditch offensive its name. -
SSA
Congres passes the Social Security Act. -
Womens Auxiliary Army Corps.
The bill established the WAAC beacame law on this day,. The law gave offical statues and salaray ut few benifits. -
World War II
The Untied states enters World War Ii -
D-Day
n June 1944, British and American forces launched the D-Day invasion, landing in German-occupied France via the coast of Normandy. -
New President
Harry S. Turman takes office when FDR passes away -
Yalta COnfernce
Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) plans final defeat of Germany -
Death
President Roosevelt died in his sleep of a strtoke and did not live to see V-E day -
FDR dies
FDR passes away before the atomic bomb is tested. He was killed by a stroke -
Hilter Commits suicide
Hitler married Braun on April and 9th On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler and Braun committed suicide; Braun bit into a cyanide capsule and Hitler shot himself -
United Nations
On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler and Braun committed suicide; Braun bit into a cyanide capsule[289] and Hitler shot himself -
v-e day
is declared V-E Day. Potsdam Conference (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) establishes basis of German reconstructio -
United Nations
The United Nations is established in the 1940's -
Atomic Bomb
The atomic bob was created and dropped on Hiroshima and Nagisaki -
vj-day
Japan signs official surrender on V-J Day -
United nations is develpoed
United Nations established -
Nuremnerg
Nuremberg trials sentence 12 Nazi leaders to death. -
Iron Curtian Speech
Winston Churchill's “Iron Curtain” speech warns of Soviet expansion -
Axis Powers
Americans were jolted by the news that Germany, Italy and Japan has signed a mutual defense treaty. They became knows as the axis powers. -
Truman Doctiran
Truman proposes Truman Doctrine, which was to aid Greece and Turkey in resisting communist expansion -
Sound Barrier
U.S. Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager becomes first person to break the sound barrier -
Ghandi
Ghandi assasinated. -
Berlin Airlift
Provided food and aid and supplies to the destoyed cities -
Korean War
The Korean War begins its three year conflict when troops of North Korea, backed with Soviet weaponry, invade South Korea. It was never really solved -
Organ Transplant
The first organ trasplant was performed -
Witchhunts
Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt -
Spies
•Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage. First ones to have this happen. -
DNA
DNA was discovered. -
Stalin
•Joseph Stalin Dies -
Warsaw Pact
•Warsaw Pact Signed that establsihed the "Iron Curtain" -
Hydrogen Bomb
•U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb -
Hungarian Revolution
Hungray wanted to be free of the Warsaw PAct -
Telephone
The first transatlantic telephone cable began operation. -
President
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for his second term in office. -
Soviet Space Age
•Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age -
First attempt
The first attempt by the United States to launch a satellite into space fails when it explodes on the launchpad -
U.s Satiliete
Explorer I, the first U.S. space satellite, is launched by the Army at Cape Canaveral -
NASA
NASA was founded -
New States
Alaska is admitted to the United States as the 49th state to be followed on August 21 by Hawaii -
Presidental Election
The U.S. Presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. JFK was the obvious winner in this race even though it was thought that he would have lost. -
Bay of pIgs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban Government. the united states was extreamly humiliated and smaller contries were terrified of the USA. -
Bay of PIgs
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban Government -
First us spaceman
First U.S. spaceman, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., rockets 116.5 miles up in 302-mile trip -
Missles
The Cuban Missile crisis was a confrontation between Cuba, The USSR and The United States during the Cold War regarding missile bases that each country had. -
New famous singers
The beatles became famous in the United States durning this time period. -
Direct Call
"Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R. -
Dreamer
Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have A Dream" speech is delivered in Wasington D.C. -
Camelot
President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald on Novermeber 22, 1963 while travling in a motercade. -
Segragation ILLEGAL
The Civil Rights Act made racial segregation illegal, forcing schools, resturants and public transportation- among others- to become intergrated. -
Blackade
The untied state sset up a blockade to check all ships coming into cuban to check for all missles or anyother type of war weapon -
Panther
Black Panther Party Established -
Apolio
Three Apollo astronauts—Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee—killed in spacecraft fire during simulated launch -
Assination
Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted of the murder. -
New Leader
Richard M Nixon is elected and inaguarted as president of the Untied States of America -
Victory
Apollo 11 sucessfully lands on the Moon, causing the U.S. to win the "space race" -
Kent State Shooting
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen were on the Kent State college campus to maintain order during a student protest against the Vietnam War. For a still unknown reason, the National Guard suddenly fired upon the already dispersing crowd of student protesters, killing four and wounding nine others. -
Breakup
In the 1970s the famous "boy band" that started the British invasion broke up. The Beatles who had been a successful group parted ways. -
Voting Age
The Senate approves a Constitutional Amendment, the 26th, that would lower the voting age from 21 to 18. House approval came on March 23. It was ratified by the states by June 30 and received certification by President Richard M. Nixon on July 5 -
papers leaked
The Senate approves a Constitutional Amendment, the 26th, that would lower the voting age from 21 to 18. House approval came on March 23. It was ratified by the states by June 30 and received certification by President Richard M. Nixon on July 5 -
Nixon quits office
President Richard M. Nixon resigns the office of the presidency, avoiding the impeachment process and admitting his role in the Watergate affair. He was replaced by Vice President Gerald R. Ford, who, on September 8, 1974, pardoned Nixon for his role. Nixon was the first president to ever resign from office.
