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Stock Market Crash
The deepest and longest lasting economic downturn happened in U.S. history when on October 29th which is also known as Black Tuesday in which wiped out thousands of investors as Billions of dollars were lost. -
Roosevelt 1st Election
The presidential election of 1932 took place soon after the Great Depression struck which had democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt facing off against republican Herbert Hoover which ended up with FDR sweeping the election with 472 electoral votes and Hoover with only 59 electoral votes. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps or which is otherwise known as the CCC was a work relief program that was operated for unemployed, unmarried men typically around the ages of 18 and 25. -
Social Security Act
Franklin D. Roosevelt would announce the Social Security Act which would become a benefit for old-age workers, victims of work related accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937
Franklin D. Roosevelt would announce a new plan which was very controversial in which he would increase the Supreme Court to 15 judges claiming that it would become more efficient if it was changed. -
HUAC Formed
During the Cold War after tensions between the U.S. and Russia were increasing many people were suspected of following onto the communist ways Russia set so the House of Un-American Activities committee was formed to investigate communist activities going on in the U.S. -
Germany Breaks Munich Pact
The Munich Pact was an agreement between the British and French Prime Ministers and Hitler where is stated that both sides wouldn't conquer anymore land after they would settle an agreement with each other. Later on Hitler breaks the agreement by test France and Britain and finally war is declared after Hitler conquers Poland. -
Battle of Britain
The British and German air forces were clashing in the skies and this was a very important battle because Germany failed to gain the air superiority over Britain making this an important turning point in the war. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 Japan landed a sneaky surprise attack on the U.S. Naval Base Pearl Harbor. More than 2,400 Americans died because of this attack and 24 hours later president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan. -
Operation Overlord/D-Day
On this day 156,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers were statically planned to land along the five beaches in the coast of Frances Normandy Region. This was the biggest military assault in history. -
FDR Dies/Truman President
After leading the Country for 4 years passed away after suffering from intracerebral hemorrhage and after passing away leaves Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge while still in the middle of WWII. -
Nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima
During the final stages of World War II the U.S. dropped the first ever atomic bomb on Hiroshima cause a whopping total of 80,000 people and hundreds of thousands more after radiation exposure also wiping out 90% of the city with it too. Another atomic bomb was dropped three days later killing 40,000 people on Nagasaki. -
United Nations created
The President FDR and Prime Minister Churchill issue a declaration with 26 other countries called the United Nations. Their goal was to create an international postwar peacekeeping organization. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman created an American Foreign policy which purpose was to counter Soviets geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. By doing so they aided countries like Greece and Turkey so they wouldn't fall in to communist hands. -
Berlin Airlift
Russia blocked off all access to Berlin claiming that they wanted it for themselves and so they cut off all the railroads, highway, and canals. They believed that this would prevent the citizens to get food or any other supplies but the U.S, France and Britain found a loop hole through the idea and started sending supplies to them through the skies instead of the usual ways. -
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Korean War
The flare that started the Korean war was when 75,000 North Korean soldiers invaded South Korea, crossing the 38th parallel causing the U.S. to jump in to help out South Korea so it wouldn't be taken over by communist and the Soviet Union jumped in for North Korea ultimately becoming the first military action of the Cold War. -
The Rosenberg Trials
The Rosenberg trials was a serious court case with the couple Ethel and Julius Rosenberg being accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union during this time. The trial end up lasting a month with the couples sentenced to death row on April 6 and their lawyer was sentenced to 30 years of jail. -
Brown v Board of Education
The Brown V. Board of Education cause was very significant in that it ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. It also helped establish helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. -
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Vietnam War
During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Because of the war many Americans were divided between being pro war and anti war causing many conflicts in our Country and because of the war more than 3 million were killed because of the Vietnam war and most of the people dead were innocent Vietnamese civilians. In the end Communist North Vietnam ended up seizing control of South Vietnam. -
Rosa Parks is Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a privileged white man in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. The actions of Rosa parts were very significant because it would then help initiate the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership conference is still an organization that exist today and it was founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King, Bayard Rustn, Ralph Abernathy, and Fred Shuttlesworth in order to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protests activities across the South. -
Sputnik launched
During the space race where the U.S. and the Soviet Union faced off and challenged each other on who can make it to space first with the Soviet Union taking the lead however after they launched the first satellite into space called Sputnik. -
Greensboro lunch Sit-ins
It was a Civil Rights protest set up by young African American students and so what happen was they would get denied service and they refused at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Soon it would spread through many of the towns and the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct, and disturbing the peace. These protests were significant because it caused Woolworth's and other restaurants to change their segregation policies. -
First LASER demonstration
Theodore Maiman became to first physician to discover the laser as he used a man made Ruby to create the laser. Because of this discovery the laser is used in many movies and science fiction books and also use in the science world for medical purposes. -
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Freedom Rides
They were a group of African American civil rights activists who would take bus trips through the South to protest segregated bus terminals. They faced police officers who arrested a few, riled up, violent white protesters, and other horrific tragedies along their travels but in the end they drew international attention to their cause. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
For 13 days the U.S. and Soviet Union had an intense stand-off between themselves when the Soviet Union secretly installed missiles in Cuba but the U.S. also secretly had missiles in Turkey and in the end the agreed to both avoid a nuclear war by removing the weapons. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that happen in 1963, when about 250,000 people assembled in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The protest was made to continue challenging the inequalities faced by African Americans and it was also the place where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech. -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated after traveling through Dallas, Texas in an open top convertible by Lee Harvey Oswald. After this tragic event a couple days later Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn into office and became the 36th president of the United States. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
On August 2nd two attacks were brought upon the U.S.S. Maddox and U.S.S. Turner Joy and because of this on August 7th congress passed to OK to wage war and defend an attack being able to take any necessary measures needed. Because of the Gulf of Tonkin attack it caused the United States to get fully involved in the Vietnam War. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X who was an African American nationalist and religious leader, was horrifically assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom. The tragic death of Malcolm had many people shook because he was a very important figure during the civil rights movement. -
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Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling thunder was a code name for the operation for an all out American bombing that would then put military pressure on the Norths leader and because of this it marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnam territory and made the United States involvement in the war much greater. -
The Start of the Black Panther Party
Heuy P. Newton and Bobby Seale create the first draft of the Black Panther Party for self defense which was also called the 10-point program which later on would become very useful -
First Ever Super Bowl I
Super Bowl I was the first Super Bowl of the many Super Bowls to come which starred the Green bay Packers facing off against the Kansas City Chiefs with the score ending in 35-10 with the Packers taking home the first Super Bowl victory in History. -
First Big Issue
Denzil Dowell was shot and killed by the sheriff deputy in Richmond, California. The family then asks the Panthers to give them protection from the polices harassment. And also a couple weeks later the first issue of the Black Panther Party Community News Service is published. -
Involvement in Society
Thirty of the member of the Black Panther Party and their supporters go to Sacramento to protest the Mulford Act which was a bill to ban the displaying of loaded weapons while they were armed. -
Trouble with the Cops
Officer John Fey and Officer Herbert Haines are shot at and John Fey is killed while Herbert Haines is critically wounded after stopping Huey Newton and Gene McKinney. Soon after the Black Panther Party increases its circulation tenfold. -
Anger of the Party Erupts
San Francisco police officer breaks down into Eldridge and Kathleen Cleavers apartment without a search warrant. Couple weeks later at South Carolina college police backed up by the National guard fire on a crowd of unarmed students; 33 of those students were African American activists and three of them died. On the same week another police officer breaks into Bobby and Artie Seales apartment without a warrant because the cop believed that they were "attempting" to commit a murder. -
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Tet-Offensive
The Tet-offensive was a full scale coordinated attack on more than 100 cities in South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese. The Tet-offensive gave the North Vietnamese the strategic victory and it also marked the turning point of the slow, slow war that war yet to come. -
Assassination of MLK
On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr, leader of the civil rights movement, founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Baptist minister was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee leaving many African Americans shocked in rage and anger. -
The Battle Begins
After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. riots break out across the country but the BPP makes sure that Oakland stays quiet. Bobby Hutton is then murdered by Oakland police after a shoot out took place also seven of the members are arrested because of it. Later in the week three other Panther members are arrested too. -
Assassination of Robert “Bobby” Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Bobby Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. -
Police and FBI Retaliate
The Indianapolis police force and fellow FBI agents steal $600 from the BPP treasury and ransack the place blowing it up with tear gas. Weeks later another Panther office is raid by police to confiscate weapons that the BPP might posses but nothing is found so out of anger the police burn all the food and clothes that was suppose to be donated to the poor people in the community for the holidays. -
The Battle Continues
Fred Hampton is invited to appear on a local television talk show but FBI and police agents prevent the panther member from making an appearance on the show. Later on a bloody gun fight happens in the parking lot between the Panthers and US members and police denied to intervene so they just watched from across the parking lot. Soon after the police tear gas and raid another panther office arresting 16 Panther members for the possession of automatic weapons -
First Human to Land on the Moon
On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first human being to leave Earths atmosphere and land on the moon. The mission team was the Apollo 9 and they manage to get samples of the rocks found on the moon and bring it back to earth. -
Woodstock Music Festival
For three days straight in New York 200,000 people gathered up in New York to participate in the festival and later on through the week more than half a million people came to support the most grooviest event in Music history -
Dismantling of the Party
Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two Panther Party leaders we viciously killed while they were sleeping and four days later the police have a full raid attack on the Panther members in Southern Carolina with 400 officers arresting party members and innocent children. News about this travels around the country by the Black Panther Party newspaper. -
Kent State Shooting
On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard opened fire after a huge crowed gathered to protest for the Vietnam War. Four of the University students were killed and nine other students were also injured because of the National Guard. Many people believe that because of the shooting it would lead people to believe that the war probably wasn't the best option and might also have contributed to the downfall of Richard Nixon. -
National Vietnam day
This day marks the day to remember and honor all the men and women who served in the Vietnam War and sacrificed their lives in one of the longest conflicts in United States History -
Ending to the Party
Huge gun battle would break out with the FBI and Police against the BPP but later it was said that only one bullet came from the Panthers side while hundreds of bullets were fired from the authorities side. After many years of dismantling and murders done by the FBI's and Police force the Black Panther Party officially dissolved in 1982.
