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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated
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Germany, obligated by treaty to support Austria-Hungary, declared war on Russia
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Germant invaded Belgium, following a strategy known as the Shlieffen Plan
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U-boat sunk the Brisish liner Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland.
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Three months later, a U-boat sank another Brtish liner, the Arabic, drowning two Americans.
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Germany broke its promise and torpedoed and unarmed French passenger steamer, the Sussex.
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The battles of Verdun and the Somme claim millions of lives
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Woodrow Wilson is reelected president.
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The president called for "A peace without victory...a peace between equals"
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US servers diplomatic ties with Germany
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German troops break through the northernmost end of the Russian front during the Riga offensive.
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A separate peace treaty is signed by Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey) at Brest-Litovsk.
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President Woodrow Wilson delivers his fourteen points speech to the U.S. Congress.
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Wilson appeals directly to the Italians in an effort to gain their support for his views on the peace settlement.
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Treaty of Versailles is drafted and submitted to the German delegation.
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Communists begin a revolt in Berlin.
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The peace Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye is signed between the Allies and Austria.
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The Women's Bureau is formed within the Department of Labor.
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The Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote
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A Reparations Committee ruled that Germany owed $33 billion in payment for the war.
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A joint resolution to officially end World War I in the U.S. finally passes.
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The Cable Act is passed in the U.S.
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Filmmakers set up their own organization so they can censor their own movies.
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The popular Jazz singer Bessie Smith records her first jazz album.
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Warren G. Harding dies 2 and a half years into his presidential term and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge
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Calvin Coolidge is elected president.
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The Scope's trial takes place in Tennessee.
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Germany is successfully admitted into the League of Nations.
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Charels Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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President Alvaro Obregon of Mexico is assassinated.
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Herbert Hoover is elected president
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The happening of the St. Valentines Day Massacre
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More than 40% of the nations banks fail
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Jane Addams shared the nobel piece prize
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Japan invades Manchuria
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The bonus army arrives in Washington DC
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FDR was elected President
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Adolf Hitler takes power in Germany
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The twenty first amendment ends Prohibition
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Congress creates the SEC to regulate the stock market
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Congress passes the social security act
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President Roosevelt is reelected
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Labor unions begin using sit down strikes
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Senator Joseph McCarthy gaines power and McCarthism begins
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The Korean War begins
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The 22nd Amendment was established
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General Douglas MacArthur fired by President Truman for comments about using nuclear weapons on China
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The Anzus Treaty enters into the force
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected the United States President
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Rosenbergs was executed
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Joseph McCarthy discredited in Army-McCarthy hearings
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Warsaw Pact, which establishes a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe (including the USSR)
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Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
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United States presidential election, 1956 (Eisenhower re-elected)
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Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction
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National Defense Education Act
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Landrum-Griffin Act, a labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers, becomes law
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U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace
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Civil Rights Act of 1960, establishing federal inspection of local voter registration polls and penalties for those attempting to obstruct someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote
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23rd Amendment, which grants electors to the District of Columbia
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Alan Shepard pilots the Freedom 7 capsule to become the first American in space
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Cuban Missile Crisis, which becomes the closest nuclear confrontation (as of 2010) involving the U.S. and USSR
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March on Washington; Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream" speech
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President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas; Lyndon Johnson becomes President. The man accused of assassinating President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot and killed as he is led to jail by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. The assassination marks the first 24-hour coverage of a major news event by the major networks
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Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States
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Immagration Act of 1965
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Miranda v. Arizona establishes "Miranda rights" for suspects
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- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established
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Jack Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer), on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.
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The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive
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Civil Rights Act of 1968, commonly known as the Fair Housing Act
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United States presidential election, 1968 (Richard Nixon elected president)
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Richard Nixon is inaugurated as President
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Kent State and Jackson State shootings occur during student protests which grow violent
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The Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, is signed into law.
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26th Amendment ratified, allowing 18-year-olds to vote.
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President Richard Nixon ends the United States Gold standard monetary policy known as the Nixon Shock
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President Richard Nixon visits China, an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China.
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Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling overturns state laws against abortion
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President Nixon resigns, becoming the first President to step down. Vice president Ford becomes President. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York becomes the second person to be appointed Vice President under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution
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Watergate scandal: The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach the President
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North Vietnam launches a massive assault on South Vietnam.
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President Ford survives two assassination attempts in a 17-day time span.
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North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans lined the streets of Memphis for this funeral
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The Soviet Union and Vietnam signed a twenty-five year mutual defense treaty
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Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Kampuchea
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China invades Vietnam
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Civil war begins in Spain
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Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated as President
