• The invention of the Model T – 10/1/1908

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

  • The WWI Armistice – 11/11/1918

  • The 19th Amendment – August 18, 1920

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight – 5/20/1927

  • Black Thursday – 10/24/1929

  • The New Deal – 1933-1939 (started 1933)

  • Hitler becomes chancellor – 1/30/1933

  • The Munich Pact – 9/30/1938

  • Hitler Invades Poland – 9/1/1939

  • Pearl Harbor – 12/7/1941

  • D-Day – 6/6/1944

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki – 8/6/1945 and 8/9/1945

  • The formation of United Nations – 10/24/1945

  • The Long Telegram – 2/22/1946

  • The formation of NATO – 4/4/1949

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb – 8/29/1949

  • The Korean War – 6/25/1950 – 7/27/1953

  • Brown v. Board of Education – 5/17/1954

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat – 12/1/1955

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis – 10/16/1962 – 10/28/1962

  • JFK’s Assassination – 11/22/1963

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution – 8/7/1964

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing – 7/20/1969

  • The Watergate Break-ins – 6/17/1972

  • Nixon’s Resignation – 8/8/1974

  • The Vietnam War – 11/1/1955 – 4/30/1975

  • The invention of the Internet – 1/1/1983

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall – 11/9/1989

  • The 9/11 Attacks – 9/11/2001

  • Covid-19 Pandemic – 12/2019 (recognized globally 3/2020)