apush decades test

The Wright brothers' first sustained flight in a powered airplane

1900s

Henry Ford introduced the Model T

1900s

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

1910s

Suffragettes' campaign for the right to vote

1910s

Emily Davidson's protest at the Epsom Derby

1910s

President McKinley's assassination

1900s

Construction of the Panama Canal began

1900s

The opening of the Panama Canal

1910s

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo

1910s

Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia

1910s

The start of World War I

1910s

2,000 passengers boarded the Lusitania in New York City

1910s

The Germans introduced poison gas

1910s

The war in Europe was good for the US economy

1910s

The Battle of the Somme began

1910s

A food riot broke out in Petrograd, Russia

1910s

Lenin encouraged an insurrection against the provisional government

1910s

President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war

1910s

American troops landed in France

1910s

The German Army launched its last major offensive on the Western Front

1910s

The focus shifted from war to peace on the Western Front

1910s

The Kaiser was forced into exile

1910s

The Germans formally surrendered

1910s

The 18th Amendment becomes the law of the land

1920s

Movement to cities accelerates

1920s

Mines closed in Pennsylvania

1920s

The Harlem Renaissance

1920s

The 19th Amendment, Women won the right to vote

1920s

Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee

1920s

Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in a single season

1920s

Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic

1920s

Admiral Richard Byrd's flight over the South Pole

1920s

Herbert Hoover's inauguration

1920s

Stock Market Crash, The panic of selling

1920s

The Wall Street Crash

1920s

The Great Depression

1930s

The Bonus Army march on Washington

1930s

Bank failures

1930s

Over 100,000 Americans moved to the Soviet Union

1930s

Hitler's Nazi Party took 37 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections

1930s

Hitler seized the chancellorship of Germany

1930s

Roosevelt's election victory

1930s

Roosevelt closed the nation's banks

1930s

Longshoremen strike in San Francisco turned violent

1930s

More than 1800 strikes for union recognition

1930s

Huey Long assassinated

1930s

Roosevelt pushed Congress to create Social Security and other programs (Second Hundred Days)

1930s

Roosevelt re elected

1930s

German troops marched into the Rhineland

1930s

Roosevelt's second term began

1930s

The city of Berlin hosted the Olympic Games

1930s

Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Olympics

1930s

Germany annexed Austria

1930s

The heavyweight boxing match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling took place

1930s

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew to Germany twice to seek a peaceful settlement regarding the Sudetenland

1930s

The Munich Agreement, where Chamberlain abandoned the Sudetenland to Germany, occurred

1930s

A young Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, shot a German official in Paris

1930s

Kristallnacht: Nazi Stormtroopers destroyed synagogues and shops in Germany and Austria

1930s

Marian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial

1930s

The steamship St. Louis, carrying Jewish refugees, was refused landing in Cuba and the United States

1930s

The New York World's Fair, 'The World of Tomorrow,' took place

1930s

Germany marched into Poland

1930s

Britain declared war on Germany

1930s

Hitler launched his Blitzkrieg against Western European countries

1940s

German troops entered Paris

1940s

German planes started to attack Britain

1940s

The first peacetime draft in American history began

1940s

Winston Churchill delivered his 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton, Missouri

1940s

World War II ended, and American soldiers began returning home

1940s

The GI Bill of Rights was passed by Congress

1940s

Bill Levitt began transforming potato fields into Levittown, a new kind of American community

1940s

Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers

1940s

Stalin cut off all supply lines into the Allied sectors of Berlin, leading to the Berlin Blockade

1940s

Stalin ended the Berlin Blockade

1940s

The Soviet Union acquired the atomic bomb

1940s

Mao Zedong's Communists defeated the Nationalist forces in China

1940s

North Korea attacked South Korea, beginning the Korean War

1950s

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were arrested for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets

1950s

Senator Joseph McCarthy began making allegations about Communist infiltration in the US government

1950s

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) investigated Communist influence in Hollywood

1950s

Lee Grant received an Oscar nomination but was subsequently blacklisted

1950s

The FBI investigated the loyalty of 3 million Americans

1950s

The war in Korea had become a bloody stalemate

1950s

America tested the hydrogen bomb

1950s

Eisenhower's presidential promise

Eisenhower ran for president and promised to bring peace to Korea: 1950s

Television's role in politics

Television became a significant part of political life: 1950s

Nixon's television address

1950: Richard Nixon used television to address allegations of improper political gifts: 1950s

Your Show of Shows

"Your Show of Shows" was a popular television program: 1950s

Korean War casualties

Nearly 50,000 Americans had returned home from the Korean War in coffins: 1950s

Truce agreement in Korea

The US finally reached a truce agreement with North Koreans and Chinese: 1950s

Elvis Presley's arrival

Elvis Presley arrived on the music scene: 1950s

Ed Sullivan's criticism of Elvis

Elvis Presley's act was called vulgar by Ed Sullivan: 1950s

Elvis on Ed Sullivan's show

Ed Sullivan booked Elvis Presley on his show: 1950s

American Bandstand's national debut

A television program called American Bandstand went national on ABC: 1950s

Rosa Parks' bus protest

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama: 1950s

Montgomery bus boycott

Black community in Montgomery boycotted the buses: 1950s

Supreme Court's bus desegregation order

The Supreme Court ordered the buses in Montgomery desegregated: 1950s

Brown vs. Board of Education

The Supreme Court ordered the integration of all public schools in Brown versus the Board of Education: 1950s

Little Rock Nine incident

The Little Rock Nine were turned away from Central High and later returned with the 101st Airborne: 1950s

Federal Highway System

The immense new Federal Highway System began: 1950s