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US History Timeline- From the First World War, to the 9/11 attacks

  • Invention of the Model T

    Invention of the Model T

    The Model T, a car made by the Ford Motor Company, would prove to be one of the most influnecial car of the 20th century.
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    World War I

  • The Zimmermann Telegram

    The Zimmermann Telegram

    A Telegram sent from the Germans, promising Mexico it's land back from America if they attack them.
  • World War I Armistice

    World War I Armistice

    The Germans and the Allies stopped fighting.
  • 19th Amenment of the Constitution

    19th Amenment of the Constitution

    This Amenment gave women the right to vote.
  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    Charlse Lindbergh was the first person to fly an airplane from New York to Paris.
  • Black Thursday

    Black Thursday

    One of the worst stock market crashes in history
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler is apointed chancellor of Germany
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal

    The New Deal was how FDR planned to end the depression.
  • The Munich Pact

    The Munich Pact

    The Munich Pact permited the Nazis to anex Czechoslovakia
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland

    The Nazis invade Poland
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    World War II

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese attack the US base on Hawaii
  • Formation of the United Nations

    Formation of the United Nations

    The United Nations is formed after WWII.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history. It was an attack by the alies against the Nazis.
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing

    The US forced Japan to surender by nuking to of their cities.
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    Cold War

  • The Long Telegram

    The Long Telegram

    A telegram about Russia during the cold war.
  • The Formation of NATO

    The Formation of NATO

    NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is an Alliance of nations.
  • Russia gets an Atomic Bomb

    Russia gets an Atomic Bomb

    Russia get an A-bomb and causes Americans to fear an attack.
  • Korean War begins

    Korean War begins

    A war in which the Soveit back north of Korea attacked the United Nations backed south of Korea.
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    Korean War

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    This was a case in which was against seperation of schools for African-Americans and Whites
  • Veitnam War begans

    Veitnam War begans

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    Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    Rosa refuses to give up her seat to a white man and end up starting the civil right movement.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuba obtains nuclear missile from the Soveit Union.
  • JFK’s Assassination

    JFK’s Assassination

    John F Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Oswald.
  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Apollo 11 Moon landing

    Apollo 11 Moon landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

    The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

    Nixon’s Resignation

  • The invention of the Internet

    The invention of the Internet

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • 9/11

    9/11