US History Timeline

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  • Invention Of the Lightbulb

    Thomas Edison, after numerous tests, made the light bulb. He beat out many other inventors to become the first person to produce a functioning light bulb

  • The Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invents the first telephone

  • American Red Cross

    During the American Civil War, Clara Barton organized relief for wounded soldiers and became known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.” She later worked for the International Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. She established the U.S. branch of the Red Cross in 1881.
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    The Spanish American War

    The U.S. acquires Puerto Rico and Guam. Also occupies Cuba and the Philippines

  • The First Successful Flight

    The Wright Brothers had their first successful flight.
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    World War I

    allied victory Central Powers victory on the Eastern Front nullified by defeat on the Western Front and Italian Front Fall of all continental empires in Europe, Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War, with the collapse of the Russian Empire and the subsequent formation of the Soviet Union Widespread unrest and revolutions throughout Europe and Asia Creation of the League of Nations

  • The Panama Canal

    The canal was finished and opened to shipping,

  • Us Joins WWI

    The US Joins World War I
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    Pandemic

    A World Wide Influenza Pandemic killed around 20 million people are dead.

  • Eighteenth Amendment

    prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    outlining terms for peace at the end of World War I, is rejected by the Senate.

  • The Nineteenth Amendment

    This gave women the right to vote.

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Senate launches an investigation into improper leasing of naval oil reserves during Harding administration.
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    The Great Depression

    A period when many people were poor and relied on the government for help, also people were homeless, jobless.

  • The Stock Market Crash

    This was a leading cause of the great depression in the United States.
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    The Dust Bowl

    Started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. Severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains in 1930. Massive dust storms began in 1931.

  • Star Spangled Banner

    The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as our National Anthem

  • Amelia Earhart

    first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.

  • Twentieth Amendment

    is ratified, moving the president's inauguration date from March 4 to Jan. 20

  • Twenty First Amendment

    is ratified, repealing Prohibition
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    WWII

    The Second World War. The US started neutral then declared war on Japan then Germany declared war on the US. The Allies invade North Africa, Allies invade France on D-Day. Germany then surrenders. The US dropped two nukes on Japan. Then Japan Surrenders.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan Attacks Hawaii

  • NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established.

  • Vietnam War

    Prolonged conflict between Communist forces of North Vietnam, backed by China and the USSR, and non-Communist forces of South Vietnam, backed by the United States.

  • Twenty Second Amendment

    limiting the president to two terms.

  • Korean War

    Cold war conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces on Korean Peninsula.

  • Rosenburg Trials

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed for passing secret information about U.S. atomic weaponry to the Soviets.

  • Brown VS Board

    declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.

  • Explorer I

    first American satellite is launched.

  • Alaska

    Alaska becomes the 49th state

  • Hawaii

    Hawaii becomes the 50th state.

  • Bay of Pigs

    invasion of Cuba fails.

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    President Kennedy denounces the Soviet Union for secretly installing missile bases on Cuba and initiates a naval blockade of the island.

  • Twenty Fifth Amendment

    outlining the procedures for filling vacancies in the presidency and vice presidency.

  • Moon Landing

    Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., become the first men to land on the Moon.

  • Twenty Sixth Amendment

    Lowers Voting Age to 18

  • Vietnam War

    The US leaves Vietnam and North Vietnam invades the south and becomes a communist country.

  • Teheran Hostage

    Iranian students storm the U.S. embassy in Teheran and hold 66 people hostage.

  • Supreme Court

    Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court justice.

  • Challenger

    Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members.

  • Persian Gulf War

    The U.S. leads an international coalition in a military operation to drive Iraqis out of Kuwait.