US History Timeline B Jacob Logsdon

  • The Ford Modle T, and the beginning of Modernization in America

    In 1908 the Ford Model T was created and was known for its cheapness and availability of the car to the middle class, showed us the beginning of a new age concerning industrialization and modernization in America.
  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    The famous telegram that officially brought America into the Great War, due to the telegram stating that Mexico should ally with Germany and attack the United States.
  • Armistice of the Great War and the Treaty of Versailles

    This is the event which ended the Great War (WW1) and produced the Treaty of Versailles, which will drastically affect the future of Europe and the World.
  • 19th Amendment of the US Constitution

    This amendment purpose was to prohibit the states and federal government from preventing people the ability to vote on the basis of sex, which allowed women to vote.
  • Charles Lindbergh's Flight

    This flight was one of the events that was a landmarks for Flight technology, and began the age where flight was common place in not only warfare, but for commercial purposes as well.
  • Black Thursday, and the beginning of the Great Depression.

    This was the beginning of the wall street crash of 1929, which then led to Black Thursday and the Great Depression.
  • Franklins D. Roosevelts "New Deal"

    The new deal package was a set of economic policies and plans which were supposed to get America out of the Great Depression, but instead these policies likely extended the Great Depression, while also being unconstitutional.
  • Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany

    With the brutal effects of the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression on the German People, showed a drastic increase of popularity for the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), which had Adolf Hitler at its head, and he became chancellor of Germany on 30 Jan 1933.
  • The Betrayal of Czechoslovakia and the Munich Agreement

    A territorial claim that Hitler put on Czechoslovakia as his "last territorial claim, was given to the Germans by the British, French, and Italians in a historic betrayal, which later amounted to nothing in terms of preventing war.
  • The Beginning of WWII, and the Invasion of Poland

    After Germany successfully consolidated power in Central Europe, they began their famous conquest of Poland, which began WWII.
  • The Attack on Pearl Harbor, and Americas Entry into WWII

    The attack on pearl harbor was made by the Empire of Japan, who was allied to Germany, which led to Americas entry into WWII.
  • D-Day

    D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history, and signified the beginning of the end of WWII
  • The Formation of the United Nations

    After WWII, led to the creation of a international organization created for the purpose of preventing conflict, sorting out international issues, and maintaining peace.
  • The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The Nuclear Bombings of the Empire of Japan, led to them exiting the war, and finally concluded the dreaded WWII, but in the process, established America and the Soviet Union as the Sole superpowers, leading to the Cold War.
  • The Long Telegram, and Soviet Communism

    The long telegram was created by an American Ambassador in Soviet Russia, and began to shape the American View of the communists as America enters the Cold War.
  • The Creation of NATO

    the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created as an American and European Defense Program, created to combat rising communism in the world.
  • The First Soviet Nuclear Bomb

    The first Russian Nuclear Bomb has been created and tested successfully, which will now solidify Russia as the second world "superpower", and officially begin the Cold War.
  • The Korean War

    The Korean War, was the first proxy war of the Cold War, which was fought between the North and Communists, against the South and United Nations/America. Which ultimately led to an armistice (compromise)
  • Brown vs. Board of Education and the Beginning of Civil Rights

    The case brought up the issue of Civil Rights and Equality of law in schools, and this kick started the civil rights movements of the 1960's
  • The Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War was the second proxy war of the Cold War, which lasted for 19 years, and ultimately ended in American and South Vietnamese defeat.
  • The Civil Rights Movement and Rosa Parks

    The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks led to more civil rights protests and legal progress concerning the equality of law.
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Cuban Missie Crisis, was one of the hot points in the cold war, where WWIII almost began, but was instead deescalated.
  • The Assasination of John F. Kennedy

    This date marks the assassination of JFK.
  • The Gulf on Tonkin Resolution

    This Resolution allowed the President Johnson the ability to be militarily involved in the Vietnam war, without a formal deceleration of war. This then lead to the Vietnam War
  • Apollo 11 moon landings

    The Apollo moon landing was a major event during the Cold War, due to there being a Space Race to the Moon between Soviet Russia and America, and was a major technological achievement of the American People.
  • Watergate and the Resignation of President Nixon

    The Watergate scandal and break in led to the Resignation of President Nixon.
  • The Invention of the Internet

    The invention of the Internet doesn't really have a solid inventor or invention, as it was the creation of several innovators around the world, and many versions were created, but it was a invention that will shape the world for Millennia to come.
  • Fall of the Berlin War

    This event was the symbolic end of Leninist Socialism, The Warsaw Pact, and the Cold War, which liberated many Eastern European Countries, and was a crucial moment in history.
  • 9/11 Attacks, and the Beginning of the War on Terror

    The 9/11 attacks created a new political development in America, which ultimately led to petrolatum wars in the middle east and the wars on terror.
  • Covid-19 and the Second Rise of Socialism

    The Covid-19 pandemic is historic not because of the actual affects of the decease itself, but the Political and Economical effects caused by the lock downs imposed by leaders around the world, but the original cause of such pandemic was Socialist China's reaction to Trumps "Trade War" in 2016, which saw much of China's industry and trade shifted back to America and its allies, so China hyped up the new virus, and used it to create the largest economic collapse in world history.