us history B timeline

  • Zimmerman Telegram

  • The WWI Armistice – November 11, 1918

  • The 19th Amendment – August 18, 1920

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight – May 20 1927

  • The Invention of the Model T – October 1, 1908

  • Black Thursday – October 24, 1929

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor – January 30, 1933

  • The New Deal – March 4, 1933

  • Hitler Invades Poland – September 1, 1939

  • The Munich Pact – September 30, 1938

  • Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941

  • D-Day – June 6, 1944

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki – August 6, 1945

  • The Formation of the United Nations – October 24, 1945

  • The Long Telegram – February 22, 1946

  • The Formation of NATO – April 4, 1949

  • Russians Acquire the Atomic Bomb– August 29, 1949

  • The Korean War – June 25, 1950

  • Brown v. Board of Education – May 17, 1954

  • The Vietnam War – November 1, 1955

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat – December 1, 1955

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis – October 16–28, 1962

  • JFK’s Assassination – November 22, 1963

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution – August 7, 1964

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing – July 20, 1969

  • The Watergate Break-ins – June 17, 1972

  • Nixon’s Resignation – August 9, 1974

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall – November 9, 1989

  • The Invention of the Internet – 1960s-1990s

  • The 9/11 Attacks – September 11, 2001

  • COVID-19 Pandemic – December 31, 2019