The 20th Century

By gmclaughlin

  • U.S. Population reaches 75 Million

  • U.S. Steel founded be J.P. Morgan

  • Teddy Rooselvelt becomes president

    William McKinely assassinated

  • First Football Rose Bowl game played

  • The Elkins Act

  • Ford Motor Company formed

  • First Baseball World Series

  • December 17th, 1903

    Wright Brothers flew an airplane for 12 seconds around 120 feet.

  • Panama Canal Zone acquired

  • Industrial Workers of the World

    "IWW"

  • Susan B. Anthony dies

  • Fatal San Francisco earthquake

    Killed between 450-700

  • Hepburn Act

  • Federal Meat Inspection Act

    main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products

  • Gentlemen's Agreement

    United States of America would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration

  • Oklahoma became a state

  • Muller v. Oregon

    justifies both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period.

  • Taft implements Dollar Diplomacy

  • William Howard Taft becomes President

  • National Advancement Assiosation of Colored People

    African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois.

  • The NAACP is founded.

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  • The Titanic sinks.

  • Woodrow Wilson becomes President

  • Henry Ford Starts the assembly line

  • World War 1 Begins

  • The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

  • Lusitania sunk by a German U-boat submarine

  • Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity.

  • Child Labor Law

  • The Zimmerman note was intercept by British intellegence

  • United States enters WW1

  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • Prohibition And The 18th Amendment Passed

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Nellie Tayloe Ross

    First women to be elected govenor

  • National Origins Act

    This act established qoutas for immagrants from Europe and Asia.

  • The book "The Great Gatsby" relaased by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Scopes Trial

    In 1925, John Scopes, a Dayton, Tennessee teacher, was arrested fir teaching the theory of evolution which violated local law.

  • Adolf Hitler is elected leader of the Nazi Party.

  • Charles Lindbergh's Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic

  • The Great Depression within the United States.

    The 1930's signifies a depression within the United States. The stock market crash in 1929 led the Great Depression, an immense tragedy that placed millions of Americans out of work and was the beginning of government involvement in the economy and in society as a whole.

  • The Dust Bowl

    he Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains.

  • The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem

  • Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate

  • Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman

  • Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

  • Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich

  • Nazis issue a decree defining a non-aryan destent

  • J. Egar Hoover founded the FBI

  • Social Security Act is passed

  • Spanish Civil War Begun

  • F. Roosevelt's second inauguration

  • The helicopter was invented and the first commercial flight over the Atlantic was completed.

  • F. Roosevelt's third inauguration (Jan. 20, 1941).

    He is the first and only president elected to a third term

  • Pearl Harbr Attacked by Japan

  • USA Enters WW2

  • Soviet Troops liberate Auschwitz

    Rumored 2 million have been murdered there

  • United Nations is established

  • US bombing of Hiroshimia and Nagasaki

  • The Philippines becomes an independent republic

  • The Brinks robbery in Boston

    when eleven masked bandits steal $2.8 million from an armored car outside their express office.

  • 1950 census counts a population in the US over 150 million people.

  • Inauguration of trans-continental television occurs with the broadcast of President Truman's speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference

  • Winter Olympics open in Helsinki, Finland with thirty participating nations

  • At Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the first hydrogen bomb, named Mike, is exploded.

  • Fighting ceases in the Korean War. All sign an armistice agreement

  • The first color televisions go on sale.

  • The United States government agrees to train South Vietnamese troops.

  • Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man

  • The first transatlantic telephone cable begins operation.

  • President Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for his second term in office.

  • The first attempt by the United States to launch a satellite into space fails when it explodes on the launchpad

  • Jet airline passenger service is inaugurated in the United States

  • Alaska is admitted to the United States as the 49th state

  • The Daytona 500 stock car race is run for the first time

  • John F Kennedy becomes president

    January 20, 1961

  • Trade Expansion Act

  • Cuban Misslie Crisis

    (October 16–28, 1962 (13 days)

  • John F Kennedy assassinated

  • LBJ becomes president

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    August 6, 1965

  • MLK assassinated

  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

  • program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role

  • Richard Nixon becomes President

  • 1970 census counted over 200 million people living in the United States.

  • A ban on the television advertisement of cigarettes goes into affect in the United States.

  • A forty-four day raid into Laos by South Vietnamese soldiers is begun with the aid of United States air and artillery.

  • Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida, expanding the Disney empire to the east coast of the United States.

  • President Richard M. Nixon resigns the office of the presidency, avoiding the impeachment process and admitting his role in the Watergate affair.

  • The television show Wheel of Fortune premiers.

  • The Viking 1 space probe successfully lands on Mars.

  • The majority of Vietnam War draft evaders, ten thousand in number, are pardoned by President Jimmy Carter.

  • The movie Star Wars opens and becomes the highest grossing film at the time.

  • The American Pioneer Eleven passes the planet Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to visit the ringed planet, albeit at a distance of 21,000 kilometers.