Events
Police arrest White House suffragette picketersEighteenth AmendmentNineteenth AmendmentFirst radio network broadcastStalin is named...Lenin DiesMussolini secures dictatorial powers in ItalyHitler is arrested...The Scopes Trial takes placeRobert Goddard launches the first modern rocketCharles Lindbergh...J. Edgar Hoover becomes...Stalin introduces the first...The stock market crashes on Black TuesdayFDR becomes governor of New York15,000 veterans march...Twentieth Amendment is ratifiedTwenty-first Amendment is ratified..A drought hits the Great Plains...Adolf Hitler becomes...The Reichstag is burned...The Enabling Act is...Roosevelt has his first "fireside chat."The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is establishedThe Civilian Conservation Corps is establishedCongress passes the Social Security ActThe Works Progress Administration beginsThe Boulder (later Hoover) Dam is completedItaly invades EthiopiaGerman troops occupy the RhinelandGermany takes over Austria...Franco turns Spain into a fascist stateJapan invades Chinese ManchuriaGermany seizes the Sudetenland...Hitler and Stalin sign...Germany invades Poland...Soviets invade FinlandFinland surrenders to the U.S.S.R.Nazi troops invade Norway and DenmarkGerman armies invade Belgium and HollandMiracle of the Dunkirk rescueBattle of France ends...The United States repeals...The German army unleashes...Hitler launches...Japanese attack Pearl HarborU.S. declares war on Japan...Executive Order 9066...Bataan, the last defense of the...Japan's advance is stopped...U.S. victory at the...General Montgomery defeats Rommel...The Germans surrender...German officers attempt to assassinate HitlerThe Allies liberate RomeThe Allied troops land...FDR, Churchill, and Stalin meet at YaltaU.S. bombs Dresden...Iwo Jima and Okinawa are taken by the alliesPresident Roosevelt diesThe Soviet army surrounds BerlinHitler commits suicideVictory in Europe (V-E) DayAtomic bomb dropped on HiroshimaAtomic bomb dropped on NagasakiJapan announces surrender (V-J Day)The United Nations Charter is ratifiedSoviet Communists take control...Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speechYugoslavia joins the Communist bloc.President Truman issues the...Soviet Communists take control of Poland and HungaryMarshall Plan offers aid to European countriesCzechoslovakia becomes a Soviet satelliteAllies merge their occupied territories in Germany to create West GermanySoviets successfully test a nuclear bombThe British issue the...British "White Paper" policy limits Jewish immigration into PalestineUnited Nations authorizes a sovereign Jewish stateIsrael enters the United NationsBritish fire on Indians...Gandhi begins the...Gandhi leads the salt march...Pakistan becomes an independent...India becomes an independent...Gandhi is assassinatedSun Yat-sen establishes the Republic of ChinaChina dissolves into civil war and chaosMao participates in the First...The CCP and the...Chiang Kai-shek becomes the leader of the KMTMao forms the Red ArmyMao defeats Chiang...North Atlantic Treaty Organization...Twenty-second Amendment limits...Mao's Five-Year Plan is announcedJonas Salk's polio vaccine...Ray Kroc founds the McDonald's CorporationConstruction of an interstate highway system beginsElvis Presley stars on the...The Little Rock Nine...The U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik I orbits the earthKhrushchev and Mao disagree...Fidel Castro takes control of CubaThe Greensboro Four sit in...Bay of Pigs invasion failsAlliance for Progress...The Peace Corps is establishedFreedom riders test...Khrushchev orders the Berlin Wall to be builtSeventy anti-apartheid protestors are...Cuban Missile CrisisJames Meredith becomes the first...MLKJ is arrested and writes...South Vietnam's President Diem is assassinatedPresident John F. Kennedy is assassinated.Civil Rights Act of 1964 becomes lawGulf of Tonkin Resolution"Bloody Sunday" occurs in Selma, AlabamaRace riots occur in major...Voting Rights Act of 1965 becomes lawMao initiates the Cultural Revolution in the ChinaThe North Vietnamese gain...Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinatedRobert Kennedy is assasinatedHenry KissingerHalf a million people attend the Woodstock FestivalNeil Armstrong takes the first step on the moonThe U.S. table-tennis team...Palestinians known as the Black September...The Supreme Court rules that women have...U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War endsArab-Israeli WarOPEC places the first oil embargo on the U.S.Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns...President Nixon resigns after the Watergate scandalShah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi begins...Ford pardons NixonSouth Vietnam falls to Communist North VietnamMao Zedong dies at the age of 82James Warren Jones leads the Jonestown massacre...Camp David Accords promote peace between Israel and EgyptThree Mile Island nuclear plant accident occursEconomic reform called the... Four Modernizations is cThe U.S.S.r. invades AfghanistanKhomeini leads the...New
eventSaddam Hussein makes himself President of IraqOPEC enforces another oil embargoPeriods
Elizabeth Cady StantonLucretia MottSusan B. AnthonyLucy StoneCarrie Chapman CattHarriot Stanton BlatchAlice PaulFranklin Delano RooseveltEleanor RooseveltJoseph StalinVladimir LeninLeon TrotskyWarren HardingWarren Harding is PresidentStalin RulesCalvin CoolidgeBenito MussoliniAdolf HitlerCharles LindberghJohn ButlerWilliam Jennings BryanClarence DarrowCalvin Coolidge is PresidentHerbert HooverHerbert Hoover serves as PresidentStalin persecutes church members...Stalin forces a secret...Joseph GoebbelsHeinrich HimmlerFDR serves as PresidentFrancisco FrancoFrancisco Franco leads the...Japan seizes the main ports...Winston ChurchillThe Battle of Britain is foughtFriedrich PaulusDwight D. EisenhowerDouglas MacArthurErwin RommelHarry S. TrumanClement AttleeGeorge C. MarshallGeorge S. PattonHarry Truman serves as PrseidenGeorge KennanNuremberg Trials are heldBerlin AirliftTheodor HerzlEliezer Ben-YehudahChaim WeizmannArthur BalfourDavid Ben-GurionIsrael fights a brief war for independence against five Arab statesMohandas GandhiJawaharlal NehruMohammad Ali JinnahMao ZedongSun Yet-senYuan ShikaiYuan Shikai is President of the Republic of ChinaMao leads his army on the Long MarchNikita KhrushchevJoseph McCarthyNew time periodJulius RosenbergEthel RosenbergJoseph McCarthy conducts investigationsKorean War is foughtNikita Khrushchev leads the U.S.S.R. after Stalin's deathJohn Foster DullesMartin Luther King Jr.Rosa ParksThurgood MarshallBaby boom marks a dramatic increase in U.S. birthsDwight D. Eisenhower is President of the U.S.Mao initiates the...Elvis PresleyFidel CastroMao's Great Leap Forward begins...Richard NixonJacqueline KennedyJohn F. Kennedy serves as President of the U.S.Lee Harvey OswaldNgo Dinh DiemLyndon B. JohnsonMalcolm XLyndon B. Johnson is President of the U.S.Congress passes over 90 bills as...Robert KennedyWilliam WestmorelandRichard NixonSpiro AgnewYasser ArafatRichard Nixon is PresidentGerald FordElizabeth FordGerald Ford is PresidentJimmy CarterRuhollah KhomeiniJimmy Carter is PresidentIranian hostage crisisRonald Reagan
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