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The United States entered World War I on April 1917. This was more than two and a half years after the war began in Europe. American banks made huge loans to the Entente powers. The money was used mainly to buy munitions, raw materials, and food from across the Atlantic -
On August 26th, 1920 the 19th amendment grants women the right to vote. -
First color motion pictures are demonstrated by George Eastman. He created a two-minute shoot titled “When the Curtains Don't Match the Carpet”. -
Nazi Germany invades Poland -
The U.S. enters World War II by declaring war on Japan the next day on December 8; and three days later against Germany and Italy. -
Rosa Parks remains seated on a bus, the incident which evolves into the Montgomery bus boycott. -
"In God We Trust" adopted as national motto. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. -
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling overturns state laws against abortion. Jane Roe was the plaintiff in the landmark American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.