History b timeline

By Dantevm

  • The invention of the Model T

    Model T goes on sale, making cars affordable and transforming travel and work

  • The Zimmermann Telegram

    Zimmermann Telegram is sent, pushing the United States toward entering World War I.

  • The WWI Armistice

    World War I Armistice ends fighting on the Western Front

  • Charles Lindbergh’s flight

    Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.

  • The 19th Amendment

    Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.

  • Black Thursday

    Black Thursday sparks the stock market crash and the Great Depression.

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and consolidates power.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt takes office

    Franklin D. Roosevelt takes office and launches the New Deal.

  • The Munich Pact

    Munich Agreement cedes Sudetenland to Germany in a failed appeasement.

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland and World War II in Europe begins.

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and the United States enters World War II.

  • D-Day

    D-Day landings open a Western front in Nazi occupied France.

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

  • A second atomic bomb

    A second atomic bomb destroys Nagasaki and Japan moves toward surrender.

  • Founding of the United Nations

    The United Nations is founded to promote international peace and cooperation.

  • The Long Telegram

    The Long Telegram outlines a strategy of containment toward the Soviet Union.

  • NATO is formed

    NATO is formed as a collective defense alliance.

  • The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb

    The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb and ends the U.S. nuclear monopoly.

  • The Korean War begins

    The Korean War begins with North Korea’s invasion of the South.

  • Brown v. Board

    Brown v. Board of Education ends legal school segregation in the United States.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat and ignites the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis begin

    Cuban Missile Crisis begins as U.S. leaders confront Soviet missiles in Cuba.

  • President John F. Kennedy is assassinated

    President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizes expanded U.S. action in Vietnam.

  • Tet Offensive shocks the United States

    Tet Offensive shocks the United States and shifts opinion on the Vietnam War.

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11 lands on the Moon and Neil Armstrong walks on its surface.

  • The Internet’s core protocol

    The Internet’s core protocol TCP IP goes live and networks interconnect at scale.

  • The Berlin Wall opens

    The Berlin Wall opens and the Cold War nears its end.

  • Terrorist attacks strike the United States

    Terrorist attacks strike the United States and reshape global security policy.

  • Covid 19

    The World Health Organization declares COVID 19 a pandemic.