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A three-year revolution began in the Philipines and was responsible for American causlties
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Consrtuction of the Panama Canal began.
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Taft was appointed chairman of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines which had been ceded to the United States by Spain following the Spanish–American War. Then in the Election of 1908 he became the 27th president.
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On June 28, 1914 Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Most European country went to one side or another creating the Central Power and the Allied Power.
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Wilson signed the Act which promised the Phillipines their indepence as soon as they were able to prove they have a stable giovernment.
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After Germany surrendered from World War 1 the Treaty of Versailles was the signed. The United States did not sign do to the fact that Germany started the war.
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The United States prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920
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Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist Party
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The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and France, prohibited new fortifications throughout the Pacific.
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The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as The Five Power Treaty, was signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy. It set a limit for battleships,
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"Black Tuesday," was the day stocks drops nearly forty points, the worst drop in Wall Street history. Many people who invested their money in th stock market lost everything once the stock market values went down
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During The Great Depression, a change of leadership in the Untied States was in order. Franiklin D. Roosevelt was elected the President of the Untied States.
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On September 3, 1932, France and Britain declared war on Germany after Germany invated Poland.
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. There were two aerial attack waves, totaling 353 aircraft, launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers.
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America grants the Phillipines their indepence.
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The United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States.
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Cold war conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces on Korean . North Korean communists invade South Korea. President Truman, without the approval of Congress, commits American troops to battle.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was elceted the 34th President of the United States in 1953.
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1954 - On May 17th, the U.S. Supreme Court announces their decision in the case of Brown v. Board. Ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,". Overturning its previous ruling in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson.
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The 1956 election was a rematch of the 1952 election. Eisenhower's opponent in 1956 was Democrat Adlai Stevenson, whom Eisenhower had defeated four years earlier.
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Four black colloeg students were refused service at an all white lunch counter in North Carolina. In responces to this unjust, the staged a sit in everyday more and more blacks students joined their sit in. By the end of the week, 1,000 were taking part.
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John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president
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Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC.
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Lyndon B. Johnson was elected as the 36th president from 1963 to 1969.
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The 24th Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act (July 2).
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Americans were very nervous about the Domino Theory coming true where the communists will take over the world and they wanted to fight and abolish communism. So they got involved in the war
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Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.
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Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th president
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In the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969, was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music".
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Four students are shot to death by National Guardsmen during an antiwar protest at Kent State University
