US History Timeline 2 By a_hobbit 1908 Invention of the Model T 1917 Zimmerman Telegram Nov 11, 1918 WW1 Armistice Signed 1920 19th Amendment Period: May 20, 1927 to May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh’s Flight Oct 24, 1929 Black Thursday 1932 Hitler Becomes Chancellor Period: 1933 to 1939 The New Deal Sep 30, 1938 The Munich Pact 1939 Hitler Invades Poland Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jan 1, 1942 Formations of the United Nations Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Period: Jul 6, 1945 to Jul 9, 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1946 The Long Telegram 1949 Formation of NATO 1949 Russians Detonate Their First Atomic Bomb Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War May 17, 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks Refuses To Give Up Her Seat 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK's Assassination 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing 1972 Watergate Break-ins Aug 9, 1974 Nixon's Resignation 1983 Official Invention of the Internet Many different people and dates have been credited with inventing the internet, but this is (allegedly) the official year it was started. Nov 9, 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Sep 11, 2001 The 9/11 Attacks Mar 13, 2020 COVID-19 Shutdown Begins