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The invention of the Model T
Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. -
The Zimmerman Telegram
First sent from the German Foreign Office in January 1917, published in the US on March 1, 1917. -
The WWI Armistice
End of WWI -
The 19th Amendment
Women get the right to vote. -
Charles Lindbergh’s Flight
Flew from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France nonstop. -
Black Thursday
Foreshadowing the Great Depression. -
The New Deal
One-quarter of the American workforce was unemployed, so President Franklin Roosevelt installed the 3 R's: Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
Hitler becomes chancellor
In the hope of creating a stable government, the elderly President Hindenburg agreed to Hitler becoming the Chancellor of Germany. -
Hitler Invades Poland
Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
The Munich Pact
British and French prime ministers sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. -
Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. -
Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb
The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb was a top-secret research and development program begun during World War II in the wake of the Soviet Union's discovery of the American, British, and Canadian nuclear project. -
D-Day
More than 160,000 troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
August 6 and 9,The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
The formation of United Nations
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt first suggested using the name United Nations. -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan wrote the Long Telegram outlining his opinions and views of the Soviets. -
The formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
The Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea -
Brown v Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
JFK’s Assassination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans, who were Americans, on the Moon. -
The Watergate Break-ins
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972 and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement -
Nixon’s Resignation
Nixon lost much of his political support, and on August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
The invention of the Internet
The online world took form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. -
The 9/11 Attacks
Four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage and $3 trillion in total costs. This attack happened 16 days before I was born. My parents have always said I was their happy baby because I brought them happiness in this terrible time.
