History of Business

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  • Ford Motor Company

    Ford Motor Company
    Henry Ford introduced the Assembly Line

  • The Jungle is published

  • The Federal Reserve is formed: 1913.

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    Carried on until the mid 1930s

  • The first commercial television broadcast

  • FDR signs the GI Bill of Rights: June 22, 1944.

  • The Marshall Plan

  • Eisenhower creates the interstates

    Eisenhower creates the interstates

  • The first Japanese car, a Toyota, is sold in the U.S.

  • Bank of America launches the first credit card

    Bank of America launches the first credit card

  • The first Wal-Mart opens: 1962.

    (exact date unknown)

  • The Civil Rights Act

  • President Johnson signs Medicare into law:

  • Apple Computer

    Apple Computer

  • The savings-and-loan crisis peaks

  • The Berlin Wall falls

    Triumph of market capitalism

  • World Trade Center Bombed

  • September 11th Attack