VA/US Timeline

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Mar 20, 1852

Dred Scott Case

Mar 6, 1857

Election of 1860

Nov 6, 1860

Lincoln Becomes President

Battle of Fort Sumpter begins

Apr 12, 1861

Battle of Fort Sumter

Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 13, 1861

Battle of Fort Sumter End

Apr 13, 1861

Battle of Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

Union Victory

Emmancipation Proclomation issued

Jan 1, 1863

sherman anti-trust sct

Jul 2, 1890

16th amendment

Mar 15, 1913

17th amendment

Apr 8, 1913

Clayton anti-trust act

Oct 15, 1914

19th amendment

Aug 8, 1920

Hoover Presidency

Period: Mar 4, 1929 to Mar 4, 1933

Black Tuesday

Period: Oct 28, 1929 to Oct 29, 1929

Wall Street Crash

Great Depression

Oct 29, 1929

Great Depression start date

Dust Bowl

Period: Apr 14, 1931 to Apr 11, 1939

New Deal

Period: Mar 4, 1933 to Mar 4, 1938

FDR presidency

Period: Mar 4, 1933 to Apr 12, 1945

1st fireside chat

Mar 12, 1933

Civilian Concervation Corps

Apr 5, 1933

Agricultural Adjustment Act

May 10, 1933

FDIC

Jun 16, 1933

Wagner Act

Jul 5, 1935

Social Security Act

Aug 14, 1935

Fair Labor Standards Act

Jun 25, 1938

Non-Agression Pact

Feb 23, 1939

Hitler and Stalinagree not to sttack each other

World War 2

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

War inEurope begins on september 1 1939

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

U.S. declares war

Dec 8, 1941

Miracle of midway

Period: Jun 4, 1942 to Jun 7, 1942

Germany invades Russia

Jun 22, 1942

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

largest seaborn invasion in history

Battle of the Bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

korematsu vs U.S

Dec 18, 1944

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb drop

Feb 9, 1945

V-E Day

May 8, 1945

German surrender

Division of Germany

Period: Aug 2, 1945 to Mar 16, 1990

Hiroshima Atomic bomb drop

Aug 6, 1945

Nuremburg Trials

Period: Nov 20, 1945 to Oct 1, 1946

Cold War

Period: Apr 16, 1947 to Dec 26, 1991

NATO Creation

Mar 17, 1948

Marshall plan

Apr 3, 1948

Berlin Airlift

Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 11, 1949

Communist takeover of China

Oct 1, 1949

Korean War

Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

Eisenhower's presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1953 to Jan 20, 1961

Julius and Ethel Rosenburg killed

Jun 19, 1953

Warsaw Pact

Period: May 14, 1955 to Mar 31, 1991

Vietnam war

Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

U2 incident

May 1, 1960

OPEC

Period: Sep 10, 1960 to Sep 14, 1960

Cuban Missile crisis

Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962

JFK Assassination

Nov 22, 1963

Election of 1968

Nov 5, 1968

Republican: Richard Nixon
Democratic: Hubert Humphrey
American Independant: George Wallace

Nixon's Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1969 to Aug 9, 1974

Nixon in China

Feb 21, 1972

Watergate Scandal

Jun 17, 1972

end of Vietnam war

Jan 1, 1973

U.S steps out

Carter's Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1977 to Jan 20, 1981

Panama Canal Treaty

Sep 7, 1977

Camp David Accord

Sep 17, 1978

Iran Hostage Crisis

Period: Nov 4, 1979 to Jan 20, 1981

Reagan's Presidency

Period: Jan 20, 1981 to Jan 20, 1989

Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech

Jun 12, 1987

Moscow Summit

Period: May 29, 1988 to Jun 3, 1988

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nov 9, 1989

Soviet Union Collapses

Dec 26, 1991