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US History Timeline Winter 2018

By EmilyA.

  • The invention of the Model T Ford

    October 11, 1908
  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    The Zimmerman Telegram

    January 1917
    The Russian man named Zimmerman got Mexico to agree to fight with them in WWI against America, when America joined, in order to get their land back from the Mexican American War (places like Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico). This caused America to decide it was time to go to war.
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    From WWI to Now

  • The WWI Armistice

    Germany Surrenders November 11th

  • The 19th Amendment

    This amendment gave woman the right to vote.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    On May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Black Thursday

    October 24-29, 1929 stocks lost more than $26 billion in value and over 30 million shares traded. After that dismal week, prices continued to fall, wiping out an estimated $30 billion in stock value by mid-November 1929.

  • The New Deal

    Great Depression Leads to a New Deal for the American People. On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington's Capitol Plaza.

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    Jan 30, 1933

  • The Munich Pact

    30 September 1938

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    September 1 1939

  • Pearl Harbor

    December 7, 1941

  • D-Day

    June 6, 1944
    In the military, D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. The best known D-Day is during World War II, on June 6, 1944—the day of the Normandy landings—initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi Germany.

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Aug 6, 1945 – Aug 9, 1945
    President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

  • The formation of United Nations

    October 24, 1945

  • The Long Telegram

    Kennan responded on February 22, 1946, by sending a lengthy 5,500-word telegram (sometimes cited as being more than 8,000 words) from Moscow to Secretary of State James Byrnes outlining a new strategy for diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

  • The formation of NATO

    April 4, 1949
    North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

    August 29, 1949

  • The Korean War

    Jun 25, 1950 – Jul 27, 1953

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    December 1, 1955

  • The Vietnam War

    Nov 1, 1955 – Apr 30, 1975

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962

  • JFK’s Assassination

    November 22, 1963

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Passed August 7- Enacted August 10 1964
    Granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by "communist aggression".

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    July 20, 1969

  • The Watergate Break-ins

    Several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C.

  • Nixon’s Resignation

    August 9, 1974

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    November 9, 1989

  • The Invention of the Internet

  • The 9/11 Attacks

    September 11, 2001