Timeline of America 2

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  • The invention of the Model T

    Model Ts started being built.

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    A communication between Germany and Mexico proposing a military alliance. If America joined WWI and Germany won, Mexico would get some territory back which they had lost to the US.

  • The WWI Armistice

    End of WWI

  • The 19th Amendment

    Granted women the right to vote.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    Lindbergh was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Black Thursday

    Stock market crash! Somewhat causing the Great Depression

  • The New Deal

    FDR's plan to get out of the Great Depression.

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • The Munich Pact

    An Agreement between Germany and Britan letting Germany take over some of Czechoslovakia.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

    Start of the allies' victory in WWII in the west.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    America nukes Hiroshima & Nagasaki, two Japanese cities.

  • The formation of United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

    A 5000-word analysis of the soviets, and what America should do about it, sent over telegraph lines.

  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

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    The Korean War

  • Brown v Board of Education

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

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    The Vietnam War

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The invention of the Internet

    or 1990

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks