US History B Timeline

  • The Invention of the Model T

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

  • The WWI Armistice (End of WWI)

  • The 19th Amendment (Women’s Suffrage)

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    Charles Lindbergh’s Flight (First solo nonstop transatlantic flight)

  • Black Thursday (Stock market crash leading to the Great Depression)

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    The New Deal (Franklin D. Roosevelt’s policies)

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • The Munich Pact

  • Hitler Invades Poland (Start of WWII)

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

  • The Long Telegram

  • D-Day

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki (Atomic bombings by the US)

  • The formation of the United Nations

  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

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    The Korean War

  • Brown v. Board of Education

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    The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (US involvement in Vietnam)

  • The invention of the Internet (Development of ARPANET)

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins (Nixon scandal)

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks

  • Covid-19 Pandemic