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Lindbergh Flys across the Atlantic
Lindbergh was the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. He flew because he heard there was an offer of $25,000 to anyone that would dare to fly nonstop. He flew 3,600 miles in 33 hours, after that he became a hero. -
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth became the first player to hit 60 home runs in one year -
Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie is created
Mickey Mouse steers a steamboat down a river. He entertains his new passenger, Minnie, by playing music out of the menagerie on the boat. -
U.S. Stock Prices Fall
The fall of stock prices is seen as marking the beginning of the great depression. -
Stock Market Crash (black Tuesday)
The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the united states, the market lost $30 billion in two days -
Hitler Comes to power
Thanks to Germany's economic desperation, Hitler was able to push his way to the top, and gain the people's love by turning the economy around. -
Unemployment Hits 25 Percent
Unemployment skyrockets to an unbelievable 25 Percent average for the year. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Becomes President
Franklin D. Roosevelt turned around America's Unemployment rate when he became president the unemployment rate was 25 percent, and in 1937, it had fallen to 14.3 percent, a dramatic difference. -
Roosevelt Reelected
Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected for another term -
Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific.
Japan invaded China, starting what would become known as the Second Sino-Japanese War. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. -
France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.
After the German occupation of Prague in March 1939, in violation of the Munich agreement, the Chamberlain government in Britain sought Soviet and French support for a Peace Front. The goal was to deter further German aggression by guaranteeing the independence of Poland and Romania. -
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburō Kurusu. -
A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat.
A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in a chaotic retreat. -
Pearl Harbor Attacked
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. -
British and US navies halt the Japanese naval advance in the central Pacific at Midway.
The U.S. Navy's decisive victory in the air-sea battle (June 3-6, 1942) and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific. -
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure -
Korean war started
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
Sputnik launched
The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. -
Buddhist Monks Self-Immolate
Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire in protest of the South Vietnamese government for religious intolerance and discriminatory policies. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The US of Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave President Johnson the power to take any actions he thought necessary to defend South Vietnam from Viet Cong forces. This is also known as the Blank Check. -
Operation Rolling Thunder is Approved
President Johnson authorizes Operation Rolling Thunder, a small but extensive bombing tactic. Its aim was to force North Vietnam to forgo supporting the Viet Cong. -
start of the Six-Day War
The Six-Day War was a brief but bloody conflict fought in June 1967 between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan -
USSR invades Czechoslovakia.
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague -
Vietnam War Officially Ends
The war is officially over for the US. The last US soldier leaves Vietnam, but military advisors and some Marines remain. Over 3 million Americans served in the war, leaving 60,000 dead and 150,000 wounded. -
INF treaty signed
The INF Treaty was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the treaty.
