-
Period: to
The invention of the Model T
Conceived by Henry Ford as practical, affordable transportation for the common man, it quickly became prized for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance. -
Period: to
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. -
Period: to
The WWI Armistice
the armistice signed that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent Germany. -
Period: to
The 19th Amendment
The 19th amendment was passed and gave women the right to vote. -
Period: to
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
Charles Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Period: to
Black Thursday
when panicked investors sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging 11 percent at the open in very heavy volume. -
Period: to
The new deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms,It responded to needs for relief, reform, and recovery from the Great Depression. -
Period: to
Hitler becomes chancellor
Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
Period: to
The Munich pact
An agreement between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory. -
Period: to
Hitler invades Poland
The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II -
Period: to
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Period: to
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operation, Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Period: to
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Period: to
The formation of United Nations
The united nations is an organization responsible for maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and being a center for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
Period: to
The Long Telegram
This was the policy of containment, which Kennan described in detail in an article entitled The Sources of Soviet Conduct, published in Foreign Affairs -
Period: to
The formation of NATO
the North Atlantic Alliance, is an military alliance between 29 North American and European countries -
Period: to
Russians Acquire the atomic bomb
It would only be a matter of months before the USSR. exploded its own atomic bomb. The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device,at Semipalatinsk. -
Period: to
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Period: to
Brown v Board of Education
this was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Period: to
The Vietnam war
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam. -
Period: to
Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger while she was seated in the "colored section" of a Montgomery city bus. -
Period: to
The Cuban Missile Crisis
it was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Period: to
JFK's Assassination
JFK was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
Period: to
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 the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Period: to
the Apollo 11 moon landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. -
Period: to
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major federal political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon . -
Period: to
Nixon’s Resignation
By late 1973, the Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support. On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office -
Period: to
The invention of the Internet
researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web -
Period: to
the fall of the berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin. The fall of the wall was preceded by decades of political tyranny and economic backwardness. -
Period: to
The 9/11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States