U.S. timeline

By supersmith

  • The invention of the Model T

    It was the first reliable affordable car.

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    It was a telegram from Germany to Mexico asking Mexico to join the war and fight the Americans.

  • The WWI Armistice

    It was the end of WW1.

  • The 19th Amendment

    It gave voting rights to women.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    He was the first person to fly across the atlantic ocean alone nonstop.

  • Black Thursday

    It was the start of the stock market crash. The beginning of the end you might say.

  • The New Deal

    It was a string of new work projects to try and get people in jobs.

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    Hitler became the leader of Germany.

  • The Munich Pact

    After Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia Britain and france wanted him not to use t=his army to get any more land, in return he could keep the land he already had.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    The German army does a blitzkrieg on poland.

  • Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese bomb pearl harbor which gets america involved in WW2

  • D-Day

    It America and Britain's first part of their counter-attack against Germany.

  • The formation of United Nations

    It came around after the league of nations, it was a council with nations to stop war.

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    it was the atomic bombing of Japan. Soon after Japan surrendered.

  • The Long Telegram

    It was A LONG telegram from the U.S. to Russia about communism.

  • The formation of NATO

    NATO is a movement to standardize bullet size. It does a lot more but that's what most people think of.

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

    The Russians figure out the atomic bomb.

  • The Korean War

    It was between communist north korea and free south korea, multiple other nation joined on both sides.

  • Brown v Board of Education

    It was a supreme court case where it was decided that colored schools were unconstitutional.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man, which get her sent to jail.

  • The Vietnam War

    The U.S. went to go squash communism in vietnam.

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The U.S. discovered Russian missiles in cuba.

  • JFK’s Assassination

    The president is assassinated.

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    It was a bill enabling the U.S. to help asian country with getting rid of communism.

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    in 1969 the first humans walk on the moon.

  • The Watergate Break-ins

    5 men broke into the watergate.

  • Nixon’s Resignation

    The watergate scandal cost nixon his presidency

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    The berlin wall fell, once again combining east and west Germany. It also marked the beginning of the end of the cold war.

  • The invention of the Internet

    the best thing since sliced bread.

  • The 9/11 Attacks

    3 planes are hijacked. 2 of them fly into the twin towers. the third was going for the pentagon but the passengers took back control and it crashed somewhere in kentucky I think.