US History B Timeline By Lucas Shibalov Oct 1, 1908 Invention of the Model T Jan 16, 1917 Zimmerman Telegram Nov 11, 1918 World War I Armistice Aug 18, 1920 19th Amendment Ratified May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh transatlantic flight Oct 24, 1929 Black Thursday Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Mar 4, 1933 The New Deal Begins Sep 30, 1938 Munich Pact signed Sep 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland Dec 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944 D-Day(Normandy invasion) Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima bombing Aug 9, 1945 Nagasaki bombing Oct 24, 1945 United Nations formed Feb 22, 1946 The Long Telegram sent Apr 4, 1949 NATO formed Aug 29, 1949 Soviet Union acquires atomic bomb Jun 25, 1950 Korean War begins May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat Oct 16, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK assassinated Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed Aug 7, 1964 Vietnam War (U.S. involvement officially escalates) Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing Jun 17, 1972 Watergate break-ins Aug 9, 1974 Nixon resigns Jan 1, 1983 Invention of the Internet Nov 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Sep 11, 2001 9/11 Terrorist Attacks Mar 11, 2020 COVID-19 pandemic starts(declared by WHO)