US History Timeline Semester 2

  • Invention of the Ford Model T

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

  • WWI Armistice

    End of WWI
  • 19th Ammendment

    Gave women the right to vote.
  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

    First flight across the Atlantic
  • Black Thursday

    Stock Market Crash
  • The New Deal

    Beginning of experiments to improve economic situation of America
  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • The Munich Pact

    Agreement between British and French Prime ministers and Hitler. It averted war but gave Czechoslovakia to Germany.
  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

  • The formation of the United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

  • The formation of the NATO

    NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Russians aquire the Atomic Bomb

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    The Korean War

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Supreme Court ruling that segregated schools are in violation of the 14th amendment and are unconstitutional.
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    The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks gives up her seat

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    Cuban Missle Crisis

  • JFK's assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break Ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • Invention of the Internet

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • 9 11 Attacks