US History T I M E L I N E
3. Up
to the present day
* 1914-1918
First World War
* 1919-1929 The "Roaring"
Twenties
* 1930-1939 The Great
Depression
* 1939-1945 The Second World
War
* 1946-1950 The Korean War
*
1950-1965 (McCarthy era, racial tension)
*
1965-1975 The Vietnam War
* 1976-1990 Middle East Unrest
*
1990-1995 Post Cold War
Timeline
of United States History (1492-1935)
By Mr. Stanley, available
http://www.serve.com/ushistory/timeline.htm
1915- Lusitania
is sunk by a German submarine killing more than 1,200
including 100
Americans
1916- Wilson forces Germany to accept the Sussex Pledge
restricting
submarine warfare
1917- The Zimmerman telegram is published
and the United States enters World
War I
1918- Wilson outlines his
Fourteen Points as his plan for peace
1919- The Treaty of Versailles ends the
Great War and the Senate rejects it
due to the League of Nations it
forms
1920- The 18th Amendment, Prohibition, goes into effect
1921- The
Washington Conference for the Limitation of Armaments convenes
resulting in
several agreements
1922- The President's "Ohio gang" begins defrauding
America by leasing U.S.
oil reserves to a private company
1923- President
Warren G. Harding dies just as the Teapot Dome oil scandal
is coming to the
public's attention
1924- President Calvin Coolidge is re-elected to his own
term
1925- The Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee upholds that only
Biblical
creation may be taught in public schools
1926- Europe agrees to
repay it's war debts to the U.S. over 62 years.
Finland is the only one to
ever fully repay
1927- The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlaws war and Charles
Lindbergh flys solo
over the Atlantic
1928- Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover is elected President and the NYSE
hits an all time high
1929- St.
Valentine's Day Massacre and the stock market collapses bringing
on the Great
Depression
1930- Hawley-Smoot Tariff, the "Dust Bowl" begins in the Midwest,
and banks
begin failing in large numbers
1931- Al "Scarface" Capone is
sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax
evasion and unemployment hits a new
high
1932- Charles Lindbergh's baby son is kidnapped and killed
1933-
President F.D. Roosevelt states, "The only thing we have to fear is
fear
itself" as he begins his "New Deal"
1934- In three separate shootings, Bonnie
and Clyde, John Dillinger, and
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd are killed
1935-
"Share-the-wealth" Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana is assassinated
in Baton
Rouge
by Judy
Yoneoka,
with reference to Hyperhistory at
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
1937- Steel
strike in Chicago
1939- Hollywood film "Gone with the Wind", WWII begins in
Europe
1941- Pearl Harbor attack, US enters WWII
1942- Fermi splits atom,
"Manhattan Project" begins, US wins Midway
1943- Teheran conference
(Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt)
1945- Atomic bomb test in New Mexico, Yalta
Conference, establishment of UN at San Francisco Conference, "Big Three" Potsdam
Conference, Okinawa invaded, Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, V-E day, V-J
day
1946- Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care", Paris peace
conference
1948- Marshall Plan
1949- NATO treaty
1950- McCarthy era of
anti-communism begins
1951- Color TV introduced in US, US presidency
restricted to eight years
1952- "The pill" produced, first hydrogen bomb
exploded
1953- Lung cancer reported linked to smoking
1954- Race
segregation in schools declared unconstitutional
1955- Blacks in Montgomery,
Alabama boycott segregated bus lines
1957- USSR launches Sputnik (first earth
satellite)
1958- US launches Satellite Explorer I
1960- Kennedy-Nixon TV
debates
1961- Peace Corps established, Bay of Pigs invasion fails
1962-
Cuban Missile Crisis, US blockades Cuba, USSR withdraws missiles
1963-
President Kennedy assassinated, Nuclear test ban treaty, coup in South
Vietnam
1965- Malcolm X assassinated, race riots in Selma, Alabama and Watts,
L.A.
1966- International Days of Protest against US policy in
Vietnam
1968- Worldwide student unrest and protest (Berkeley, etc.), Martin
Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
1969- First man on the moon
(US, Neil Armstrong), Anti-war demonstrations in many cities, beginning of US
troop withdrawal
1970- Four students killed in Kent State Univ.
protests
1972- President Nixon visits China (beginning of official
relations)
1973- Arab oil embargo
1974- Watergate scandal/Nixon impeached
and resigns
1975- Vietnam War ends, Apollo and Sojuz link in space
1976-
Bicentennial celebrations
1977- President Carter pardons draft
evaders
1978- Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David
1979- SALT II strategic
arms limitation treaty signed, US Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran
1980
-Gulf War begins (Iraq invades Iran)
1981 -AIDS identified, IBM personal
computer invented
1982- US back Contra rebels in Nicaragua, invade
Grenada
1987- Gorbachev introduces "perestroika" and "glasnost", World stock
market crash
1991- Iraq invades Kuwait/Operation Desert Storm/oil wells burn
in Kuwait
1992- Rodney King riots in L.A.
1993- Waco firestorm
1994-
Earthquake in L.A.
1995- Federal building destroyed in
Oklahoma
1998-Terrorists
bomb US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
1998- President
Clinton impeached
2001- Twin
towers attacked by terrorists (9/11)
2001- War in
Afghanistan
2003- War in
Iraq