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The Invention of the Model T
The first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit in October of 1908. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build around 15 million Model T cars. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence in January 1917, Zimmermann instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally. -
The WWI Armistice
It was the armistice that ended fighting between Germany and the allies. -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote, a right known as women's suffrage, and was ratified in1920. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
On May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, age 25, landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday refers to October 24, 1929, when panicked sellers traded nearly 13 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange , and investors suffered $5 billion in losses. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
The Munich Pact
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Hitler Invades Poland
The Invasion of Poland, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. -
The formation of United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that was tasked to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international co-operation and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations -
The Long Telegram
Kennan responded to deductions on U.S. policy on February 22, 1946, by sending a lengthy 5,500-word telegram from Moscow to Secretary of State James Byrnes outlining a new strategy for diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
It would only be a matter of months before the U.S.S.R. exploded its own atomic bomb. The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or "First Lightning" (codenamed "Joe-1" by the United States), at Semipalatinsk on August 29, 1949. -
The formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states. -
Brown v Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus 60 years ago. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest on December 1, 1955, sparked the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, with U.S. involvement ending in 1973. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
JFK’s Assassination
JFK was shot and killed while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. He was assassinated by the former U.S. marine Lee Harvey Oswald. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. -
The Watergate Break-ins
The Watergate Break-In. In May 1972, as evidence would later show, members of Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President, broke into the Democratic National Committee's Watergate headquarters, stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office's phones. -
Nixon’s Resignation
By late 1973, the Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. In August of1974, he resigned from office. -
The invention of the Internet
The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. Initial concepts of wide area networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, United Kingdom, and France. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
The 9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
