History Timeline B

  • The Invention of the Ford Model T

    The first production car built by Ford Motor Company. Was a cheap means of travel for the average man.
  • The Zimmerman Telegram

    Secret communication between Germany and Mexico to have an alliance
  • Armistice of 11 November 1918

    Signed to end fighting on land, sea and air in World War 1 between Allies and Axis.
  • The 19th Amendment

    An amendment created that prohibited the states and federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex.
  • Charles Lindbergh's Flight

    The first solo transatlantic flight
  • Black Thursday

    Investors made Dow Jones Industrial company to go down 11 percent in volume.
  • The New Deal

    Programs and other things enacted by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler is made Chancellor, marking his rise to power
  • The Munich Pact

    Agreement between Britain and Germany where Germany was allowed to go into Czechoslovakia.
  • Invasion of Poland

    The very beginning of WWII.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Surprise attack by Japanese on the Hawaiian naval base Pearl Harbor.
  • D-Day

    Attack on beaches in Normandy, ended in the lost of many troops.
  • Bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Dropped the first to Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing tons of people.
  • The Formation of United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

    It was a view of how the Soviet Union saw the world.
  • Formation of NATO

  • The Soviet Atomic Bomb

  • The Korean War

  • Brown vs Board of Education

  • The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks Refuses Her Seat

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Assassination of John F. Kennedy

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-In

  • Richard Nixon's Resignation

  • The Invention of the Internet

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • 9/11 Attacks