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| Wright brothers fly the first airplane. |
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| Pure Food & Drug Act is passed. |
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| Henry Ford builds first automobile assembly line. |
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| Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. |
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| The U.S. ratifies the Eighteenth Ammendment, Prohibition. |
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| World War I ends with Allied victory. |
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| The Nineteenth Ammendment is ratified. |
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| Charles Lindbergh flies nonstop across the Atlantic. |
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| The stock market collapses. |
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| Daring young women become known as "Flappers". |
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| F.D. Roosevelt elected president. |
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| FDR creates the New Deal. |
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| A severe drought creates the Dust Bowl. |
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| The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. |
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| Japanese-Americans are put in internment camps. |
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| The Americans drop two atomic bombs on Japan. |
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| "Rosie the Riveter" represents working women. |
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| The United Nations is created in San Francisco. |
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| The Berlin airlift represented Cold War tensions. |
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| The U.S. begins to send troops to assist South Koreans. |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy creates an anticommunist crusade. |
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| Ray Kroc franchises the McDonald's restaurant chain. |
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| The Beatniks challenge traditional values. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education. |
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| Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus. |
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| The Soviet Union launches Sputnik. |
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| The U.S. authorizes a disastrous invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs. |
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| Rachel Carson shows harmful effects of DDT in "Silent Spring". |
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| The. U.S. comes close to war over the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
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| John F. Kennedy is assassinated. |
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| Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream" speech. |
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| Malcolm X was assassinated. |
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| National Organization for Women formed. |
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| Martin Luther King is assassinated. |
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| Robert Kennedy is assassinated. |
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| U.S. lands first man on the moon. |
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| President Lyndon Johnson escalates the Vietnam War. |
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| President Johnson begins "Great Society". |
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| Hippies rejected traditional values. |
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| Establish relations with China. |
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| Esclation of war into Cambodia. |
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| Disco Dancing becomes popular. |
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| Personal Computer Apple II. |
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