US History B Timeline

By AEspinosa18

  • The invention of the Model T

    first production Model T

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    This was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office on January 17, 1917,

  • The WWI Armistice

    Armistice of Compiegne
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    The 19th Amendment:

    It was passed on June 4, 1919 but ratified on August 18, 1920 which gave women the right to vote
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    Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight

  • Black Thursday

    start of the Wall Street Crash
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    The New Deal:

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • The Munich Pact:

    Got signed

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    (triggering WWII in Europe)

  • Pearl Harbor:

    Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

    Allied invasion of Normandy

  • The Long Telegram:

    Sent on February 22, 1946, by George Kennan.
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    The formation of United Nations:

    UN Charter signed on June 26, 1945; officially came into existence on October 24, 1945.
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    Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    August 6, 1945 (Hiroshima) and August 9, 1945 (Nagasaki), atomic bombings.

  • The formation of NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty signed

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

    The Soviet Union's first successful atomic bomb test ("RDS-1")
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    The Korean War

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Supreme Court decision

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

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    The Vietnam War

    U.S. involvement generally considered to be from the mid-1950s, major escalation from 1964, ended in 1975.

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Passed by Congress

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

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    The invention of the Internet

    The foundational technologies were developed in the 1970s; the World Wide Web was invented in 1989 and made available in the early 1990s.

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall:

  • The 9/11 Attacks

  • Covid-19 Pandemic

    globally in early 2020 (first cases in late 2019).