Family History Project

Communist Revolution in China

May 21, 1926

Started because of Japanese invasion and Mao was able to use his military.

Important Events and Presidents

Period: May 21, 1926 to Oct 7, 2009

Herbert Hoover Elected

Mar 4, 1929

My grandfather Bernard King was born

May 19, 1930

My grandmother Barbara Chubuck was born

May 11, 1931

Franklin Roosevelt Elected

Mar 4, 1933

My grandmother Carole House was born

May 4, 1934

My grandfather Dennis Barrett SR. was born

Feb 29, 1944

Harry Truman Elected

Mar 4, 1945

Berlin Airlift

Jun 24, 1948

Used to get supplies to West Germany.

Korean War

Jun 25, 1950

North Korea invades South Korea.

Dwight Eisenhower Elected

Mar 4, 1953

Vietnam War

Nov 1, 1955

South Vietnam goes to war with Vietnam Cong.

My grandfather Dennis joins the airforce

Jul 31, 1956

Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

First artificial satelite to be put into orbit.

My mom Donna King was born.

Mar 22, 1958

John Kennedy Elected

Mar 4, 1961

Berlin Wall

Aug 13, 1961

Kept citizens from leaving to go west.

Cuban Missle Crisis

Oct 14, 1962

World almost goes into a nuclear war.

Lydon Johnson takes over office

Mar 4, 1963

JFK Assassination

Nov 22, 1963

President Kenedy was shot by an assassin while riding in his convertable.

My aunt Lisa was born

Dec 28, 1965

My uncle Dennis Barrett was born

Apr 5, 1966

My dad Jonathan Barrett was born

Aug 10, 1968

Richard Nixon Elected

Jan 20, 1969

Kent State Shooting

May 4, 1970

Teens kill and injure their peers at school.

My grandfather Dennis and my grandmother Carole got divorced

Nov 24, 1971

Gerald Ford Elected

Aug 4, 1974

Nixon Resignation

Aug 9, 1974

President Nixon resigns from office.

Jimmy Carter Elected

Jan 20, 1977

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Nov 4, 1979

66 Americans held hostage for 444 days.

Ronald Reagan Elected

Jan 20, 1981

Soviet Union Collapse

Mar 11, 1985

Soviet Union gets split up into 5 different countries.

George H. W. Bush elected

Jan 20, 1989

Tiananmen Square Protest

Apr 15, 1989

Soldiers fire shots at innocent protesters.

Persian Gulf War

Aug 2, 1990

34 nations attacked Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

Bill Clinton Elected

Jan 20, 1993

My uncle Dennis and my aunt Lisa's marriage

Jan 24, 1993

My mom and my dad got married

May 27, 1995

I was born

Jul 24, 1995

My sister Amelia Barrett was born.

Jun 19, 1997

George W. Bush

Jan 20, 2001

9-11

Sep 11, 2001

al Qaeda crashes 2 planes into the World Trade Center in NYC and 1 plane into the Pentagon in D.C.

War on Terror

Oct 7, 2001

U.S. declares war on terrorism, specifically al Qaeda in response to the 9-11 attacks.

Barack Obama Elected

Jan 20, 2009