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Rosa parks takes a seat
Parks refused to give up her seat, a police officer arrested her Parks then was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code -
The Zimmerman Telegram
a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. -
The WWI Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last remaining opponent, Germany -
the 19th amendment
The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote -
THE INVENTION OF MODEL T
Model T, automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927 -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
American aviator who rose to international fame in 1927 after becoming the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in his monoplane.... -
black Thursday
name given to Thursday, October 24, 1929, when panicked investors sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging 11% at the open in very heavy volume. -
the new deal
a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States -
Hitler becomes chancellor
Hitler attained power in March 1933 -
The Munich Pact
settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation -
Hitler Invades Poland
Nazis invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 -
Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service -
d day
Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
US detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 -
The formation of United Nations
United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. -
The formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
The Soviet Atomic Bomb and the Cold War
exploded its own atomic bomb. -
The Korean war
a war between North Korea and South Korea. -
Brown v Board of Education
landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional -
The invention of the Internet
in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba -
JFK’s Assassination
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the gulf of tonkin resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote peace -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong -
The Watergate Break-ins
police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters -
nixons resignations
President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office on August 8, 1974 -
The Vietnam War
a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
The 9/11 Attacks
a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the terrorist group -
covid 19 pandemic
COVID-19 affects different people in different ways. Infected people have had a wide range of symptoms reported from mild symptoms to severe illness.