Timeline: Social Studies Assignment 1 | Timetoast

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

WWI

Triggered by the assassinatation of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Jan 12, 1921

NCSS is Founded
Period: Jan 12, 1929 to Jan 12, 1932

Great Depression

The Depression resulted in an increase of emigration of people to other countries for the first time in American history.
Period: Jan 12, 1939 to Jan 12, 1945

WWII

Began with the German invasion of Poland.
Dec 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor

Link for Pearl Harbor
A war about China between the USA and Japan.
Period: Jan 12, 1950 to Jan 12, 1953

Korean War
Period: Jan 12, 1955 to Jan 12, 1968

Civil Rights
Jan 12, 1957

First Satellite Launched (Sputnik, Russia)
Period: Jan 12, 1960 to Jan 12, 1973

Vietnam

The U.S. government viewed American involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.
Jan 12, 1961

First Man in Space (Yuri Gagarin, Russia)
Jan 12, 1969

First Man on Moon (Neil Armstrong, USA)

Apollo 11 was the spaceship that took Neil Armstrong and his crew to the moon.
Jan 12, 1974

Watergate
Period: Jan 12, 2000 to Jan 12, 2014

N.C.L.B. mandate in schools
Sep 11, 2001

World Trade Center Attacks

2.996 people were killed in this tragic event.