US History Timeline Semester 2 By lknight19 1917 Zimmerman Telegram Nov 11, 1918 World War 1 Armistice Jun 4, 1920 19th Amendment passsed May 21, 1927 Charles Lindinburgh's flight Oct 1, 1927 Model T released Oct 29, 1929 Black Thursday Period: 1933 to 1937 The New Deal Jan 30, 1933 Hitler Becomes Chancellor Sep 30, 1938 The Munich Pact Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 27, 1939 Hitler Invades Poland Period: 1940 to 1949 Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima Bombed Aug 9, 1945 Nagasaki Bombed Oct 24, 1945 United Nations Formed Feb 22, 1946 The Long Telegram Apr 4, 1949 NATO Formed Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Period: Dec 19, 1952 to May 17, 1954 Brown v Board of Education Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat Period: Oct 16, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK’s Assassination Aug 7, 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed Jul 20, 1969 The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Jun 17, 1972 The Watergate Break-ins Aug 9, 1974 Nixon’s Resignation Jan 1, 1983 The invention of the Internet Nov 9, 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Attacks