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John D Rockefeller became the first billionaire and by 1870 he formed the standard oil company in Ohio and installed himself the president. -
This was the slaughter of 150-300 Lakota Indians by US troops. The massacre was the climax of the effort to repress the plains inidans.
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This court case was the first inquire for the fourteenth amendment that created separate but equal laws. These laws prohibit the states from denying "equal protection laws".
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This war was between the United States and Spain, the war ended Spanish colonial ruling in the Americas and also resulted in the US gaining territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. -
ends the spanish-American war -
McKinley was in New York shaking the hands at the Pan-American buffalo expedition when a man named Leon Czolgosz approached him and shot him twice in the chest.
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increases U.S presence in latin america
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writers who expose big business corporations
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set food quality standards -
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establishment of income tax -
World war I begins in Europe -
Americans killed on board
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established the draft -
intercepts by British ,asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against U.S.; US. Enters WWI
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ends WWI; calls for heavy reparations on Germany, disarmament, and creation of League of Nations; U.S. Senate rejects it -
outlaws purchase and transport of alcohol -
women's suffrage (the right to vote) women can no longer be denied the right to vote based on their sex. -
exposes massive corruption in Harding Administration -
ease war reparations on Germany -
popularizes debate over teaching evolution in schools -outlawed -
completes world's first solo flight across Atlantic - seen as a hero
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executed for murder; controversial because the were anarchists, politically motivated and unjustified
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creation of countless jobs, most productive of any president's 1st 100 days -
criticizes FDR, “Share Our Wealth" proposes large tax burden on wealthy
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supports union rights, protects collective bargaining -
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provides U.S. loan aid to Britain, USSR & allied powers -
motivate U.S. citizens to support war efforts
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U.S. defeats Japan, seen as turning point in the war in the Pacific -
imprisonment of Japanese in California -
D-DAY, June 6, 1944 (largest land/sea invasion)
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Harry Truman becomes President; Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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postwar economic recovery to help Western Europe; largest relief aid given by the U.S. in U.S. history
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USSR blocks all aid into West Berlin; Berlin Airlift-U.S. drops food and supplies by air to West Berlin -
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U.S. aids South Korea against North Korea; Peace Treaty in 1953
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begins rabid anti-communist campaign; hurt when he accuses military of having communists; alcoholic -
overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson; says separate but equal is unconstitutional
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Rosa refused to give up a seat on a bus for a white man and was arrested, Montgomery bus boycott occurs -
Sputnik -
JFK vs. Nixon (JFK wins); JFK president 1960
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failed invasion of Cuba by U.S. (CIA) trained military -
standoff b/n U.S. and USSR after Soviets placed missiles in Cuba pointed at the United States; no fighting incurs -
speech given by MLK - speech for civil rights
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launches "Great Society" program to end poverty and racism
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bans discrimination in education, employment, & public places -
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first black justice of the Supreme Court -
7,000 page document outlining U.S. government plan in Vietnam; shows gov't was not telling the truth to the public. -
Nixon authorizes break-in and wiretapping of Democratic National Committee headquarters in Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. -
legalizes abortion (up to 3 months) -
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nuclear power accident causes concern of nuclear safety -
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space based missile defense proposed -
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