20th century

By hswan16

  • Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the U.S

  • Department of Commerce and Labor created

  • First World Series

  • Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, N.C.

  • The Wright brothers make their first powered flight in the Wright Flyer

  • The Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act was established

  • Oklahoma becomes a state

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation established

  • NAACP founded by W. E. B. Du Bois

  • William Howard Taft becomes President

  • Fedral income tax was establish(16th amendment)

  • World War I

  • The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • U.S. Coast Guard was established

  • The Sinking of the Lusitania

  • First Birth Control Clinic

  • Germany invents submarines

  • 18th amendment established advocation of prohibition

  • World War I ends

  • Publication of the side of Paradise about the first flapper women, Zelda Fitzgerald

  • Charlie Chiplins first silent film, The Kid

  • Howard Carter found the tomb of King Tut

  • Louis Armstrong made his first recorded solo with oliver

  • J. Edgar Hoover becomes director of FBI

  • Harold Grange was traded to the Chicago bears

  • Charles Lindberg flys solo nonstop to Paris

  • Jack Dempseys last national boxing match

  • Amelia Earheart, the first women to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

  • Alexander Fleming discovers penicillan

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh

  • The U.S. Senate passed a bill increasing tariffs

  • The United States, Britain and Japan signed the London Naval Treaty

    It regulated submarine warfare and limited shipbuilding.

  • The Soviet Union proposed military alliance with France and Great Britain.

  • Adolf Hitler

    He was the leader of Germany and appointed chancellor in 1933.

  • Neutrality Act

    The Neutrality Acts were laws that were passed by the US Congress. These ensured that the United States would not get involved in foreign conflicts.

  • Panay Incident

    The Panay Incident was an Attack on the United States Navy Gunboat called the Panay by the Japanese.

  • World War II begins

  • Lend Lease Bill

    The Lend-Lease was a program where the United States supplied allies with large amounts of war materials.

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

  • The Bombming of Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway Fought

  • D-Day

  • Rooselvelt Dies

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuked

    Hiroshima(Aug. 6th)
    Nagasaki (Aug. 9th)

  • World War Ii ends

  • United Nations were formed

  • The NATO was created

  • Ghandi's Assassination

  • Korean War Begins

  • Twenty-second Amendment was established

  • Mutual Security Act

    it launched a major American foreign aid program

  • Immigration and Nationality Act was established

  • U.S. Supreme Court outlaws school segregation(Brown vs. Board of education)

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Civil Rights Act was established

  • National Defense Education Act (NDEA)

  • Hawaii and Alaska became part of the U.S.

  • Twenty-third Amendment was ratified

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • FIrst U.S. man to orbit space

  • Berlin Crisis of 1961

  • Civil Rights March on Washington led by

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King Jr. gave the famous "I had a dream speech"

  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy becomes President

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • First Super Bowl ever played

  • Twenty-fifth Amendment

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

  • Vietnamization was established

    a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role.

  • Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon

  • Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the moon

  • Kent State Shootings

  • Beatles Break up

  • Twenty-sixth Amendment to U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18

  • Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida

  • “Christmas bombing” of North Vietnam

  • Richard M. Nixon announces he will resign the next day

  • Vice President Gerald R. Ford of Michigan is sworn in as 38th president of the U.S.

  • President Ford signs Federal Election Campaign Act

  • Fifteen nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a nuclear-proliferation pact

  • U.S. Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty

  • Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla of Poland, is elected Pope at Vatican City

  • The Iran Hostage Crisis begins