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The invention of the Model T
A simple and affordable automobile made by Henry Ford -
The Zimmerman Telegram
A telegram from Germany to Mexico about joining the war -
The WWI Armistice
the halt of fighting on the western front of WW1 -
The 19th Amendment
allowed voting to people of both genders in the US -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
The first solo nonstop transatlantic flight to be completed in history -
Black Thursday
A catastrophic crash in the stock market that started the great depression -
The New Deal
Franklin Roosevelts plan to fix the US economy -
Hitler becomes chancellor
Hitler officially because germanys chancellor -
The Munich Pact
A pact that forces Czechoslovakia to surrender its border regions to the Nazis -
Hitler Invades Poland
Poland is invaded by Germany starting WW2 -
Pearl Harbor
Japan surprise attacks US navel ships in pearl harbor -
D-Day
A large-scale Allie assault on the beaches of Normandy -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The first Atomic bombs used in war dropped by the US in Japan -
The formation of United Nations
the start of a group of united nations that aimed to keep international peace -
The Long Telegram
an 8000-word telegram about Soviet policies -
The formation of NATO
An alliance formed between 31 different governments -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
the soviet union detonated its first atomic bomb -
The Korean War
A war between the two split sides of Korea -
Brown v Board of Education
A Supreme Court ruling that deemed segregation of public schools unconstitutional -
The Vietnam War
A war between the north and south parts of Vietnam -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a bus -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
A crisis between the US and soviet Russia were it seemed like they were on the brink of nuclear war -
JFK’s Assassination
US President John F Kennedy was assassinated during a procession -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A resolution that increased the US involvement in the Vietnam war -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
The first space mission to bring people to the moon -
The Watergate Break-ins
A presidential scandal that led to Nixons resignation -
Nixon’s Resignation
the resignation of US President Nixon -
The invention of the Internet
A new form of online communication -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The breaking of the border between eastern and western Germany -
The 9/11 Attacks
A coordinated terrorist attack against the US -
Covid-19 Pandemic
The virus known as Covid-19 becomes a global health emergency