U.S. History B: Intro Timeline | Timetoast Timelines

1908

4. The Invention of the Model T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T
1917

1. The Zimmerman Telegram

https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/wwi/zimmermann-telegram?gclid=Cj0KCQiA3NX_BRDQARIsALA3fIKrwoYCBXcaOqZFni7YpgkpHfwNxnWNEePuLc0AoaxpyL3JeXqf_7caAnlfEALw_wcB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
Nov 11, 1918

3. The WW1 Armistice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918
Aug 18, 1920

2. The 19th Amendment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
May 20, 1927

5. Charles Lindbergh's Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh
https://www.space.com/16677-charles-lindbergh.html#:~:text=As%20Charles%20Lindbergh%20piloted%20the,a%20nonstop%20trans%2DAtlantic%20flight.
Oct 24, 1929

6. Black Thursday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Thursday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
Jan 30, 1933

8. Hitler becomes Chancellor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power#:~:text=Hitler%20attained%20power%20in%20March,elections%20and%20associated%20backroom%20intrigues.
Mar 3, 1933

7. The New Deal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
Sep 30, 1938

9. The Munich Pact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
Aug 6, 1939

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Sep 1, 1939

10. Hitler Invades Poland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland
Dec 7, 1941

11. Pearl Harbor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
Jun 6, 1944

12. D-Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings
Oct 24, 1945

15. The Formation of United Nations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations
1947

14. The Long Telegram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Article
Apr 4, 1949

16. The Formation of NATO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
Aug 29, 1949

17. Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

http://www.atomicheritage.org/history/soviet-atomic-program-1946#:~:text=The%20Soviet%20Atomic%20Bomb%20and%20the%20Cold%20War&text=exploded%20its%20own%20atomic%20bomb,Semipalatinsk%20on%20August%2029%2C%201949.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project
Jun 25, 1950

18. The Korean War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Dec 9, 1952

19. Brown vs Board of Education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
1955

20. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#:~:text=When%20Parks%20refused%20to%20give,a%20police%20officer%20arrested%20her.&text=Parks%20was%20charged%20with%20a,been%20in%20a%20colored%20section.
Apparently, a teenager did the same thing in March 1955
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43171799
Nov 1, 1955

24. The Vietnam War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
1958

29. The Invention of the Internet

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet
Oct 16, 1962

21. The Cuban Missile Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
Nov 22, 1963

22. JFK's Assassination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
Aug 10, 1964

23. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution
Jul 24, 1969

27. The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
Jun 17, 1972

25. The Watergate Break-ins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
Aug 8, 1974

26. Nixon's Resignation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon's_resignation_speech
Nov 9, 1989

28. The Fall of the Berlin Wall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall
Sep 11, 2001

30. The 9/11 Attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
2019

31. Covid 19 Pandemic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic