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The invention of the Model T
Model T, was an automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927. Conceived by Henry Ford as practical, affordable transportation for the common man. -
Zimmermann Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office. -
The WWI Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and Germany. -
Nineteenth Amendment
The nineteenth amendment allowed woman to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
Charles Lindbergh is known as the first aviator to complete a solo transatlantic flight. -
Black Thursday
Thursday, October 24, 1929, when panicked investors sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging 11% at the open in very heavy volume. Black Thursday began the Wall Street crash of 1929, which lasted until October 29, 1929. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg had appointed Hitler as Chancellor after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States. -
The Munich Pact
An agreement between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia. -
Hitler Invades Poland
German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun. -
Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. -
The formation of United Nations
In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. -
The Long Telegram
A 1946 cable telegram by U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan during the post-WWII administration of U.S. President Harry Truman that articulated the policy of containment toward the USSR. containment. -
The formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 at Semipalatinsk. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended unofficially on 27 July 1953. -
Brown v Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a 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 Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
When Parks refused to give up her seat, a police officer arrested her. Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code. -
The invention of the Internet
The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
A tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba. -
JFK’s Assassination
The assignation of the 35th president. -
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. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle. -
The Watergate Break-ins
On June 17, 1972, police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. -
Nixon’s Resignation
President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
In a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. -
The 9/11 Attacks
A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. -
covid-19 pandemic
The virus and disease were first detected in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, and since led to an outbreak all countries across the globe, especially in the US.