American History A- Overview Timeline – 100pts
Enter these events into the timeline in the order of their year. For each event include a minimum of a three sentence description. Even if the event seems simple like the assassination of John F. Kennedy, you can write about why some people may have wanted him dead, how the general public felt about it, how long after he became president did he die, what were his goals that he wasn't able to accomplish etc. Make your descriptions significant to earn maximum points!
Use timetoast.com to complete your project.
1) First U.S. military advisors were sent into Vietnam
2) The 19th Amendment
3) U.N. declares victory in the Persian Gulf War
4) U.S. supports Afghanistan from invasion of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)
5) Hitler invades Poland
6) The completion of the Panama Canal
7) The 15th Amendment
8) U.S. entry into WWI
9) John F. Kennedy assassinated
10) Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
11) U.N. resolution 678
12) U.S. drops first Atomic bomb in Japan
13) U.S. drops second Atomic bomb in Japan
14) First combat troops sent to Vietnam
15) Treaty of Versailles
16) Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
17) Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
18) U.N. begins bombing against Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
19) Executive order 9066
20) March on Washington
21) Vietnam War ends
