| 1. First airplane flies - 1903
...Wilbur and Orville Wright. |
| 2. Panama Canal work begins - 1904
It was Theodore Roosevelt's... |
| 3. Pure Food and Drugs Act - 1906
...for the Progressive movement. |
| 4. Model T Ford introduced - 1908
...higher wages for workers. |
| 5. World War I begins - 1914 (Aug.)
...deadly poison gas. |
| 6. U.S. enters WW I - 1917 (April)
...for about three years. |
| 7. WW I ends - 1918 (Nov.)
...signed an armistice agreement. |
| 8. Prohibition begins - 1920 (Jan.)
...abuse of alcohol, and... |
| 9. Women get voting rights - 1920
(Aug.) ...to the Constitution. |
| 10. Stock market crash - 1929
(Oct.) ...called "Black Tuesday." |
| 11. FDR elected - 1932
...he called a "New Deal." |
| 12. New Deal programs begin - 1933
...creating new jobs. |
| 13. Social Security Act - 1935
...Americans' retirement money. |
| 14. World War Two begins - 1939
(Sept.) ...attack on Poland
started... |
| 15. Hitler takes France - 1940 (May/June)
...warfare, called blitzkrieg. |
| 16. Pearl Harbor attacked - 1941
(Dec.) ...that will live in infamy." |
| 17. Germany surrenders - 1945
(May) ...was called "VE
Day," for... |
| 18. Japan surrenders - 1945 (Aug.)
...two atomic bombs... |
| 19. NATO formed - 1949 (May)
...now worried about Russia. |
