Social Studies Events

WW1

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

WWI was started by an assassination in Germany.

Great Depression

Period: Jan 17, 1929 to Jan 17, 1932

The Great Depression happened during my great grandparents' era.

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor Video
The attack on Pearl Harbor pushed the United States into WWII.

Vietnam

Period: Dec 17, 1960 to Apr 30, 1973

The Vietnam war lasted a very long time and ended with the Paris Peace Accords.

First Man in Space- Yuri Gargarin

Apr 12, 1961

Yuri Gargarin was from Russia and he went into space in 1961, but it still took us 8 more years to get to the moon.

First Man on the Moon

Jan 17, 2014

The first man on the moon was Neil Armstrong.