1. Panama Canal is Built 1913

2. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand- 1914

3. WORLD WAR ERA 1914-1918 Treaty of Versailles signed 1920

4. Sinking of the Lusitania- 1915

5. 18 th Amendment starts Prohibition Era - 1917

6. 19 th Amendment – Women vote 1920

7. THE ROARING TWENTIES 1920-1929

8. US Stock Market crashes 1929

9. THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929-1941

10. FDR’s landslide defeat of Hoover -1932

11. Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany- January 1933

12. FDR Declares a Bank Holiday- March 1933

13. Nuremburg laws are passed in Germany- 1935

14. German Invasion of Poland September 1939

15. WORLD WAR II 1939-1945 US INVOLVEMENT 1941-1945

16. Fall of France- June 1940

17. German invasion of the Soviet Union- June 1941

18. Bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941

19. D-Day – June 1944

20. Potsdam Conference July 1945

21. 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

22. Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - August 1945

23. WORLD WAR II ENDS1945

24. Nuremburg Trials occur- November 1945

25. Marshall Plan - 1947

26. Formation of NATO- 1949

27. McCarthy Hearings (HUAC) 1950-1954

28. Korean War begins 1950

29. Brown vs Board of Education decision - 1954

30. Formation of the Warsaw Pact May 1955

31. Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

32. March on Washington 1964

33. Voting Rights Act 1965

34. The Moon Landing June 1969

35. US withdraw from Vietnam ends -1975

36. Ronald Reagan elected President- 1982

37. Persian Gulf War 1990-1991

38. 9-11 Terrorist attack September 11, 2001