APUSH DATES TEST (1900-2000s)

1914

Beginning of World War I

1917

American entry in World War I

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1920

19th Amendment (women’s suffrage)

1929

Stock Market Crash

1939

Beginning of World War II

1941

Pearl Harbor; American entry in World War II

1945

End of World War II; U.S. atomic bomb; beginning of Cold War

1947

National Security Act of 1947: Creation of the CIA: Establishment of the Department of Defense

1949

Soviet detonate first atomic bomb, Creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization/China falls to Communism

1950

Beginning of the Korean War

1954

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS

1957

Sputnik 1 Launched into orbit

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

JFK assassinated

1964

Civil Rights Act; Gulf of Tonkin

1968

Tet Offensive; MLK assassinated; RFK assassinated; Democratic Convention

1969

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

1972

Nixon visits China

1973

Americans withdraw troops from Vietnam

1980

Election of Reagan

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall

2001

9/11 & Beginning of the Global War on Terror

2003

Beginning of the Iraq War

2008

Election of Obama

2011

Americans withdraw troops from Iraq

2016

Election of Trump

2021

Capitol Riots; Americans withdraw troops from Afghanistan

2024

Election of Trump