WWI- 9/11

By Kadie B.

  • Invention of the model T ford 1904

    A car made by Ford that was considered the first affordable car.

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    A secret diplomatic message sent from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance between the two countries

  • The WWI Armistice

    Ended fighting on the land, air and sea for all those included in the war.

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    First solo flight across the Atlantic

  • Black Thursday

    The huge Stock Market Crash

  • The new deal

    a series of programs and public projects designed to get the public back on it's feet after the great depression it started in 1933 and went through 1936

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • The Munich Pact

    British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of a war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -mr google

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

    the day in WWII when Allied forces invaded France on a beach in Normandy

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    The U.S dropped and detonated two nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities-Hiroshima & Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

  • The formation of the United Nations

    from what I gather, It's like the League of Nations

  • The Long Telegram

    a telegram of 8,000 words telling the American government that George Kennan hated Communism and the Soviet government.

  • The formation of NATO

    stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, basically a treaty between 29 N. American countries and Europe. "NATO constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. "- Wikipedia

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

  • The Korean War

    June 25, 1950 – Jul 27, 1953

  • Brown v Board of Education

    laws of segregation in schools declared unconstitutional Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954

  • The Vietnam War

    Nov 1, 1955 – Apr 30, 1975

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    13 day political and military standoff over the installation of Soviet missiles on Cuba

  • JFK’s Assassination

    shot by Lee Harvey

  • The 1964 Civil Rights Act

    Ended segregation everywhere

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    this allowed President Johnson to take any measures he tough necessary to preserve the peace and security of southeast Asia

  • The 1965 Voting Rights Act

    Prohibits racial discrimination for voters

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

    a group known as CREEP Democratic National Committee's broke in to Watergate headquarters, stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office's phones.

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The invention of the Internet

    the internet as we know it emerged around 1990

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    people were free to cross the boarder of Berlin

  • The 16th, 17th and 19th Amendments

    The 16th amendment allows the government to collect an income tax from all Americans. The 17th amendment states that each state shall have two senators selected by the popular vote of the people. The 19th amendment gave everyone the right to vote regardless of sex.

  • 9/11