American History

By tylormcmahon

  • monroe doctrine

  • Booker T. Washington born

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    progressive impulse

  • congress declares war on spain (spanish-american war)

  • spanish surrender

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    progressive movement

  • Muller v. Oregon

  • National Association for the Advancment of Colored People (NAACP) founded

  • Outbreak of WW1. (Germany declares war on Russia)

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    WW1

    Germany declared war on Russia and the U.S supplied germany untill they theartenin them then the war came to an end because Germany agreed to stop firing

  • Panama Canal opened

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • WW2 commences with Germany's invasion of Poland

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    WW2

    THe war started because Germany invaded Poland and also started the Holocaust tthe war ended when The U.S dropped 2 Atomic Bombs on Japan

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  • United States enters World War 2

  • Allied forces invade Germany (D-day)

  • A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Germany and Japan surrender

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    Korean war

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a public bus.

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    Vietnam War

    America went to vienam to help out with a civil despute between north and south

  • Assassination of JFK.

  • MLK assassinated

  • all school segregation is ended with Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education.

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    Gulf War

    Iraq invaded Kwait and the US and the UN sent forces over to help. The US kept troops there 6 months after the war was over.

  • 9-11

    two planes crashed into the world trade centers in new york city killing thousands. It was believe Alkida was responsible but we all really know what happened.

  • war on terror

    The campaign was launched in 2001 with the US/UK invasion of Afghanistan in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Then the US invaded iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction. We are still in there.