US History Timeline B

By KeenanJB

  • The invention of the Model T

    A model of the first cars built by Ford Motors.

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    A secret diplomatic message that suggested a alliance between Germany and Mexico.

  • The WWI Armistice

    The treaty that ended WWI

  • The 19th Amendment

    The amendment that allows women to vote.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    The first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

  • Black Thursday

    The Wall Street crash.

  • The New Deal

    A group of reforms went to recover after the Great Depression.

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • The Munich Pact

    An agreement between Britain and Germany.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor

    The attack from the Japanese on America that brought us into the war.

  • D-Day

    The day that the Americans invaded Europe.
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    Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    The bombings on Japan

  • The formation of United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

    It reviewed how the Soviet Union saw the world.

  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

    The Soviets successfully test their first atomic bomb.
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    The Korean War

  • Brown v Board of Education

    A momentous decision where the Supreme Court ruled it wrong to have segregation in public schools.
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    The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Congress gives Johnson the power he needs to retaliate in order to keep international security.

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    The spaceflight that landed humans on the moon for the first time.

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

    Nixon resigns.

  • The invention of the Internet

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks

    The terrorists attacks on the Twin Towers.