Timeline Assignment

By danieladelrm

  • U.S. enters World War I

    U.S. enters World War I
    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

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    On August 26th, 1920 the 19th amendment grants women the right to vote.

  • First color motion pictures are demonstrated

    First color motion pictures are demonstrated
    First color motion pictures are demonstrated by George Eastman. He created a two-minute shoot titled “When the Curtains Don't Match the Carpet”.

  • World War II begins

    World War II begins
    Nazi Germany invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    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

    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks remains seated on a bus, the incident which evolves into the Montgomery bus boycott.

  • "In God We Trust"

    "In God We Trust"
    "In God We Trust" adopted as national motto.

  • Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    Assassination of John F. Kennedy
    Assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Roe v. Wade

    Roe v. Wade
    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.