US History B Timeline

By Tyson Baak

  • The model T

    The Model T is Ford's universal car that put the world on wheels.

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    the American public learned about a German proposal to ally with Mexico if the United States entered the war.

  • The WWI Armistice

    The armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I

  • The 19th amendment

    The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying

  • Black Thursday

    when the market opened 11% lower than the previous day's close, and panicked selling ensued throughout a day of heavy trading.

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

  • The New Event

    A series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    Hitler becomes chancellor- president

  • The Munich Pact

    Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks pearl harbor and that triggered America going into WW2

  • D-Day

    Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France.

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    We dropped the nuke on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

  • The formation of United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

  • The formation of NATO

  • The Korean War

  • Brown v Board of Education

  • The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The invention of the Internet

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks

  • Covid 19