World Events from 1933-1972

By angelaeasley

  • 1933

    Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

  • 1937

    Amelia Earhart lost in the Pacific Ocean

  • 1939

    Germany invades Poland

  • 1941

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

  • 1944

    Battle of the Bulge began

  • 1945

    U.S. drops Atomic Bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima

  • 1945

    U.S. drops Atomic Bombs on the Japanese city of Nagasaki

  • 1950

    Truman orders devolpment of the Hydrogen Bomb

  • 1954

    First Atomic Submarine built.

  • 1959

    Castro takes over Cuba

  • 1961

    U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba

  • 1963

    Kennedy is assassinated; Lee Harvey Oswald accused for his murder.

  • 1968

    Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis

  • 1969

    Woodstock held in Bethel, New York

  • 1970

    Four students killed at Kent State University in Ohio by National Guardsmen

  • 1972

    Start of the Water Gate scandal