US History B Timeline

  • The invention of the Model T

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

  • The WWI Armistice

  • The 19th Amendment (U.S. women’s suffrage)

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight (first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

  • Black Thursday (stock market crash)

  • The New Deal (start of Roosevelt's policies)

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • The Munich Pact (appeasement with Hitler)

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki (Atomic bombings)

  • D-Day (Normandy Invasion)

  • The formation of the United Nations

  • The Long Telegram (by George Kennan)

  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

  • The Korean War

  • Brown v. Board of Education (Supreme Court ruling)

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The invention of the Internet (early development of ARPANET)

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The Vietnam War

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks

  • Covid-19 Pandemic