US History B Timeline

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  • Black Thursday

    It is a term used to refer to negative events which occurred on a Thursday.

  • The invention of the Model T

    The Ford Model T is an automobile produced by Ford Motor Company

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.

  • The WWI Armistice

    It was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany.

  • The 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage.

  • Charles Lindbergh's Flight

    Charles Lindbergh's route on his transatlantic flight

  • The New Deal

    The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States.

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    Hitler becomes chancellor. January 30th 1933 marked the beginning of the end of the Weimar Republic, with Adolf Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor.

  • The Munich Pact

    Munich Pact. the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany.

  • Hitler Invades Poland

    German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces.

  • D-Day

    Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began
    known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.

  • The formation of United nations

    Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • The Long Telegram

    The telegram was prompted by US inquiries about Soviet behavior, especially with regards to their refusal to join the newly created World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

    Barely four years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the Soviet Union detonated its own in August 1949, much sooner that expected.

  • The formation of NATO

    Alternative Title: NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty, which sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II.

  • The Korean War started

    Korean War, conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ( North Korea) and the Republic of Korea ( South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives.

  • The Korean War ended

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, case in which on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits the states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person within their jurisdictions.

  • The Vietnam War

    Vietnam War, a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

    Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. For doing this, Parks was arrested and fined for breaking the laws of segregation.

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 1 month, 4 days confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.

  • JFK’s Assassination

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress in 1964 that gave 36th President of the United States the authority to deploy military forces in Southeast Asia without formally declaring war.

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The Watergate Break-ins

    The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continuous attempts to cover up its involvement in the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building.

  • The invention of the Internet

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    The fall of the Berlin Wall on was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.

  • The 9/11 Attacks

    series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history.

  • Covid-19 Pandemic

    It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China.