U.S. History B Timeline

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  • The invention of the Model T

  • The Zimmerman Telegraph

    British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.

  • The WWI Armistice

    when WWI ended

  • The 19th Amendment was Ratified

    note, it was created on june 4th 1919

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

  • Black Thursday

    the stock market crashed

  • The New Deal

    "The New Deal" refers to a series of domestic programs (lasting roughly from 1933 to 1939) implemented during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the effects of the Great Depression on the U.S. economy. (loc.gov)

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • The Munich Pact

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    The United States bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945,

  • The formation of United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

  • The formation of NATO

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    The Korean War

  • Brown v Board of Education

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    The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    North Vietnamese warships purportedly attacked United States warships

  • The invention of the Internet

  • Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

    police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Evidence linked the break-in to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    the berlin wall comes down

  • The 9/11 Attacks

  • Covid-19 Pandemic