US history B Semester Timeline

  • Invention of the model T

  • Zimmerman telegram

    -German minister tried to offer US territory to the Mexicans if they joined their cause.
  • The WWI Armistice

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    The passing and ratification of the 19th amendment

    passed in senate: June 4th 1919. Ratified: August 1920
  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

  • Black Thursday

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    The New Deal

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • The Munich Pact

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    Hitler Invades Poland

    -Marks the start of WWII, the soviets were in on it too
  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

    -A large offensive by the allies on the shores of the conquered France
  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    -Two nuclear bomb drops on Japan make them stop fighting the war from fear
  • The formation of United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

    -An American diplomat in Moscow sent an 8,000 word telegram to the president’s state department
  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

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    The Korean War

  • Brown vs Board of Education

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    The vietnam War

    • Nov 1, 1955 - April 30th, 1975
  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

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    The Watergate Break-ins

    -A major political scandal that made president nixon resign
  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The invention of the Internet

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks

  • Covid-19 Pandemic