Panama Canal is Built 1913
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand- 1914
WORLD WAR ERA Treaty of Versailles signed 1920
Sinking of the Lusitania- 1915
18 th Amendment starts Prohibition Era
19 th Amendment – Women vote 1920
THE ROARING TWENTIES
US Stock Market crashes 1929
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
FDR’s landslide defeat of Hoover -1932
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany- January 1933
FDR Declares a Bank Holiday- March 1933
Nuremburg laws are passed in Germany- 1935
German Invasion of Poland September 1939
WORLD WAR II US INVOLVEMENT
Fall of France- June 1940
German invasion of the Soviet Union- June 1941
Bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941
D-Day – June 1944
Potsdam Conference July 1945
COLD WAR ERA STARTS 1945 WHEN STALIN BREAKS HIS PROMISE TO HAVE FREE ELECTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE. IT WILL LAST UNTIL 1989 WHEN THE BERLIN WALL FALLS AND 1991 WHEN THE SOVIETS VOTE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OUT OF POWER
Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - August 1945
WORLD WAR II ENDS1945
Nuremburg Trials occur- November 1945
Marshall Plan
Formation of NATO- 1949
McCarthy Hearings (HUAC)
Korean War begins 1950
Brown vs Board of Education decision
Formation of the Warsaw Pact May 1955
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
March on Washington 1964
Voting Rights Act 1965
The Moon Landing June 1969
US withdraw from Vietnam ends -1975
Ronald Reagan elected President- 1982
Persian Gulf War
9-11 Terrorist attack September 11, 2001