Progressive era peace

The 20th Century

By aidanhiggins
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    20th Century Timeline

  • Gold Standard Act

    Gold Standard Act

  • Butch Cassidy Gang Robs Union Pacific Railroad Train No.3

    Butch Cassidy Gang Robs Union Pacific Railroad Train No.3

  • Galveston hurricane

    Galveston hurricane

  • U.S Steel Founded by J.P Morgan

    U.S Steel Founded by J.P Morgan

  • William McKinley Assassinated

    William McKinley Assassinated

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

    Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

    Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

  • First Rose Bowl Game Played

    First Rose Bowl Game Played

  • Department of Commerce and Labor created

    Department of Commerce and Labor created

  • Elkins Act Passed

    Elkins Act Passed

  • Ford Motor Company Founded

    Ford Motor Company Founded

  • Great Train Robbery Movie Released

    Great Train Robbery Movie Released

  • Wright Brothers First Flight

    Wright Brothers First Flight

  • Industrial Workers of the World Established

    Industrial Workers of the World Established

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Oklahoma becomes a state

    Oklahoma becomes a state

  • Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia killing at least 361

    Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia killing at least 361

  • FBI established

    FBI established

  • NAACP founded

    NAACP founded

  • Pinchot-Ballinger controversy erupts

    Pinchot-Ballinger controversy erupts

  • The Boy Scouts of America is founded.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

  • Standard Oil is declared an unreasonable monopoly by the United States Supreme Court

  • The Indianapolis 500 auto race is run for the first time in Indianapolis, Indiana

  • Mona Lisa is stolen

  • Titanic Sinks

  • Fenway Park in Boston opens.

  • Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City

  • The construction of the Panama Canal comes to a close

  • Henry Ford and the Assembly Line

  • The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Babe Ruth makes his major league debut.

  • President Woodrow Wilson announces that the United States will stay officially neutral in the European conflict that would become World War I.

  • The First Battle of the Marne

  • Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson conduct the first telephone conversation between New York and San Francisco.

  • United States Coast Guard is established

  • Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat submarine

  • National Park Service is officially created

  • Woodrow Wilson won a second term as President

  • United States Congress declares war on Germany and join the allies in World War I.

  • 18th Amendment, advocating prohibition of alcoholic beverages is passes

  • Start of the Dust Bowl

  • Star Spangle Banner Becomes Official National Anthem

  • Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion

  • Charles Lindbergh's child was kidnapped

  • Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

  • FDR launches his New Deal Plan

  • Prohibition was abolished

  • Bonnie and Clyde Killed by Police

  • Social Security Created

  • Germany Issues Nurumberg Laws

  • Hoover Dam Complete

  • Hitler Opens the 11th Annual Olympics in a Nazi Germany

  • Amelia Earhart vanishes

  • War of the Worlds Broadcasts for the first time and causes widespread panic

  • End of the Dustbowl

  • U.S enters into WWII

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  • American Forces storm the beaches of Normandy (D-Day)

  • FDR elected for third term

  • Germany Surrenders to the U.S in WWII

  • Scientists watch the detonation of the fist atomic bomb

  • U.S drops bomb on HIroshima

  • U.S drops bomb on Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders to the U.S in WWII

  • Nurumberg Trials Begin

  • Korean War begins

  • President Truman orders construction of first Hydrogen Bomb

  • Communist Witch Hunt begins

  • Color TV introduced to U.S public

  • Truman signs peace treaty with Japan

  • First succesful test of polio vaccine

  • julius and ethel rosenberg executed

  • First Playboy magazine published

  • Reports say cigarettes cause cancer

  • First atomic submarine launched

  • Segregation ruled illegal in the U.S

  • Disneyland opens

  • Emmett Till kidnapped and murdered

  • James Dean dies in car accident

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott begins

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • First televised presedential debate

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott ends

  • Russia launches Sputnik, very first artificial satellite in space

  • NASA founded

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion begins

  • Bay of Pigs invasion ends in utter failure

  • March on Washington

  • President John F. Kennedy Assassinated

  • Malcolm X assassinated

  • Black Panthers formed

  • Lance Armstrong becomes first man in histroy to step foot on moon

  • Firsr Earth Day celebrated

  • 4 students from Kent State in Ohio are killed during protest of Vietnam War

  • Cigarettes are banned from airing commercials on television

  • Nixon begins his journey for peace in Peking, China

  • U.S Supreme Court allows New York Times and Washington Post to publish classified documents over the Vietnam War

  • The Watergate scandal begins

  • Abortion legalized in U.S if done in first 6 months

  • Impeachment hearings are held for President Nixon after being caught as a part of watergate

  • The Viking 1 space probe succefully lands on Mars