US History B Timeline By ryweglauutah Oct 1, 1908 Invention of the Model T Jan 16, 1917 Zimmermann Telegram sent Nov 11, 1918 WWI Armistice Aug 18, 1920 19th Amendment ratified May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight Oct 24, 1929 Black Thursday Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor Mar 4, 1933 New Deal begins Sep 30, 1938 Munich Pact Sep 1, 1939 Hitler Invades Poland Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima Aug 9, 1945 Nagasaki Oct 24, 1945 Formation of the United Nations Feb 22, 1946 The Long Telegram Apr 4, 1949 Formation of NATO Aug 29, 1949 USSR tests its first atomic bomb Jun 25, 1950 Korean War begins May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks seat refusal Oct 16, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK assassination Aug 7, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing Oct 29, 1969 ARPANET goes live Jun 17, 1972 Watergate break-ins Aug 8, 1974 Nixon Resigns Nov 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Sep 11, 2001 9/11 attacks Dec 1, 2019 First known COVID-19 case