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The 15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3, 1870. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. -
U.S. entry into WWI
World War I was a global war centred in Europe.. It involved all the world's great powers,[5] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Central Powers -
History of the Panama Canal completion
In order to provide a passage link between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, the Panama Canal was built. It was completed in 1914. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (French: le Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers -
The 19th amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. -
Hitler invade poland
Hitler invade poland as part of greater plan of aggression and world domination. The world chose to ignore this invasion as part of the policy of appeasement -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because they wanted to take over the United States. However, eventually they lost the war after the US dropped two nuclear bombs in Japan -
Executive order 9066
United States Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. -
U.S. drops first Atomic bomb in Japan
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. These two events represent the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
U.S. drops second Atomic bomb in Japan
Following a firebombing campaign that destroyed many Japanese cities, the Allies prepared for a costly invasion of Japan. The war in Europe ended when Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on 8 May, but the Pacific War continued -
first us military advisors were sent into vietnam
Military advisors, or combat advisors, are soldiers sent to foreign nations to aid that nation with its military training, organization, and other various military tasks. -
March on Washington
the march on washinton was when martin Luther king Jr said 'I have a dream' speech -
John F. Kennedy assassinated
November 22, 1963 after being shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas the age of 46. John F. Kennedy is the most recent of four American Presidents to die by assassination. -
First combat troops sent to Vietnam
On March 7th, 1965 the Pentagon sent two battalions of Marines to South Vietnam to help fight against the North Vietnamese troops. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr wa shot on his balcony he died at age 39 -
Vietnam War ends
Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam Laos and Cambodia. The war took place from November 1955 and ended in the year 1975. By the end of the war, a lot of lives were lost and other thousands and thousands were badly wounded and properties were damaged. -
U.S. supports Afghanistan from invasion of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)
Tribal insurgency, began in 1978, with the installation of a pro-Soviet government. Even though the government tilted toward the Soviet Union, the analysis said that many tribal groups, especially Uzbek, saw the government as ethnically Pashtun, with hostility on ethnic and political grounds. -
U.N. declares victory in the Persian Gulf War
The First Persian Gulf War,. Jan.–Feb., 1991, was an armed conflict between Iraq and a coalition of 32 nations including the United States, Britain, Egypt, France, and Saudi Arabia -
U.N. begins bombing against Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
Iraq begins deploying troops to the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border and building a massive ... 660 demanding Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait -
U.N. resolution 678
Gavan Griffith, Notes on the Legal Justification for the Invasion of Iraq and Security Council Resolutions 678 and 1441, Sydney Morning Herald