Forever Dates Flashcards
Columbus discovers new world
1492
Jamestown is settled
1607
US declares independence
July 4, 1776
Constitution ratified
1788
Louisiana purchase made
1803
American civil war begins
April 12, 1861
Civil war ends/ surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
Plessy vs. Ferguson case
1896
The Wright Brothers fly the first motorized aircraft
1903
The First World War begins
1914
Armistice day/ hostilities in wwi cease
Nov. 11, 1918
Women receive the right to vote
1920
The stock market crashes
1929
Hitler Invades Poland
1939
Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
Dec 7, 1941
D-Day- allied invasion of Normandy, France
June 6, 1944
US dropps first atomic bomb
1945
Brown vs. Board of Education
1954
MLK “I have a Dream” speech
1963
JFK assassinated
1963
Mankind lands on the moon
1969
Berlin Wall is Torn Down
1989
Terroristsattack the World Trade Center
September 11, 2001