U.S. History B Timeline

By willow@oaknorton.com

  • Invention of the Model T

    This date is when the first production was completed.
  • Period: to

    Model T to 9/11

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    The Telegram was released to America from Britain

  • WWI Armistice

  • The 19th Amendment

    Ratified this day, it gave women the right to vote.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    First to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean alone, it lasted till the 21st.

  • Black Thursday

    Wall Street crashed (was this what started The Great Depression?).

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

  • The New Deal

  • The Munich Pact

    The Munich Pact was signed

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • Hiroshima

    Atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, Japan.

  • Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan.

  • Formation of the United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

  • Formation of NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • Russians Acquire the Atomic Bomb

    Date the Soviet Union blew up its first nuclear bomb.

  • The Korean War Starts

    Ends July 27, 1953

  • The Korean War Ends

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Date when Supreme Court delivered their ruling on this case.

  • The Vietnam War Starts

    Ends April 30, 1975

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat.

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis Starts

    Ends 14 days later

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis Ends

  • JFK's Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Passed on this day

  • Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon

    Launch began July 16, 1969. This flight landed the first humans on the Moon.

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon's Resignation

  • The Vietnam War Ends

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Invention of the Internet

    When it went live to the world.

  • 9/11 Attacks