us history timeline 2 By Sterbin 1913 The invention of the Model T 1917 1917 – The Zimmerman Telegram 1917 1918 – World War I Armistice 1919 1920 – The 19th Amendment 1926 1927 – Charles Lindbergh’s Flight 1928 1929 – Black Thursday 1932 1933 – Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany 1937 1939 – Hitler Invades Poland 1938 1938 – The Munich Pact 1939 1933–1939 – The New Deal 1940 1941 – Pearl Harbor 1943 1944 – D-Day 1944 1946 – The Long Telegram 1944 1945 – Hiroshima & Nagasaki 1945 1945 – Formation of the United Nations 1947 1949 – Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb 1948 1949 – Formation of NATO 1949 1950–1953 – The Korean War 1952 1954 – Brown v. Board of Education 1954 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat 1955 1955–1975 – The Vietnam War 1958 Late 1960s–1980s – The invention of the Internet 1961 1963 – JFK’s Assassination 1962 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis 1964 1964 – The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1968 1969 – Apollo 11 Moon Landing 1971 1972 – The Watergate Break-ins 1972 1974 – Nixon’s Resignation 1989 1989 – The Fall of the Berlin Wall 2000 2001 – The 9/11 Attacks 2019 2020 – COVID-19 Pandemic