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The 15th Amendment
prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
It was as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions of black former slaves. By 1869, amendments had been passed to abolish slavery and provide citizenship and equal protection under the laws -
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia.
His Assassinaton led to the first World War.
Shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip one of a group of six assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić a Bosnian Serb and a member of the Black Hand secret society. -
The complerion of the Panama Canal
is a 77.1-kilometre (48 mi) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean.
Franc begun to make the canal but he stoped because of engineering problems and high mortality due to disease. Later the U.S. finished the project. -
U.S. entry into WWI
while the U.S. remaind neutral both the Central Powers and the Allied Powers used propaganda in an attempt to sway American public opinion.
Germany began attacking British and American vessels in the waters of the North Atlantic.
Lusitania was sunked and 128 Americans were killed by Germnay -
19th amendment
The nineteenth amendment gave woman the rights to vote.
It prohibited and U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote based on gender.
The amendment was the high point of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, -
Treaty of Versailles
It 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.
It was siggned 5 years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Hitler invades Poland
with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border.
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland.
For Hitler the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German people -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
It lasted just two hours but the Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes.
The day after president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan. -
Executive order 9066
t was signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones.
t cleared the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans, Italian Americans, and German Americans to internment camps -
U.S. drops first Atomic bomb in Japan
It was the first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
it was 2,000 times more powerful than the largest bomb used to date.
The bomb was dropped from an American B-29 Superfortress, known as Enola Gay, at 0815 local time -
U.S. drops second Atomic bomb in Japan
3 days after boming of Hiroshima the U.S. Drops Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
Estimates suggest that the bomb killed 40,000 people on the day it was dropped, and approximately 70,000 people by the end of 1945.
The United States and Japan had been at war since Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941 -
First US military advisors were sent to vietnam
500 military advisors assist the pro-Western government of South Vietnam.
by the year 1992 there was 11,500 troops and 50 soilders were killed that same year. -
John F Kennedy Assassinated
Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone
Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy with 3shots from a six floor with a sniper at 12:30 pm in Dallas,TX
30 minutes later President Kennedy was announced dead. -
First combat troops sent to Vietnam
The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang
They join 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
King stepped out his balcony door of his hotel in Memphis, Tennessee and James Earl Ray across the way took a shot to entered through King's cheeck.
he was rushed to hospital were he was pronounce dead at 7:05pm at age 39
He was prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of civil disobedience and non-violence. -
Vietnam War ends
In all, 58,282 American soldiers lost their lives and another 303,644 Americans were wounded.
Nixon announced to following a new program he termed “Vietnamization" that stoped Vietnams War. -
U.S. supports Afghanistan from invasion of the Soviet Union
lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989 it was part of the Cold War and it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen.
The war resulted in 850,000-1.5 million deaths of civilians.
About 30,000 troops and toppling the short-lived presidency of people’s leader Hafizullah Amin the aim of the Soviet operation was to prop up their new but faltering client state, -
U.N. begins bombing against Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi petroleum through slant drilling it made Saddam Hussein's decision to attack Kuwait.
Within two days of intense combat, most of the Kuwaiti Armed Forces were either overrun by the Iraqi Republican Guard
The Emirate of Kuwait was annexed, and Saddam Hussein announced a few days later that it was the 19th province of Iraq. -
U.N. resolution 678
Resolution 678 was adopted by 12 votes to 2 against Cuba, Yemen and one abstention from the People's Republic of China.
Council recognized its responsibility to uphold international peace and security they offered Iraq one final chance to implement Resolution 660 that demanded Iraq to withdraw its forces unconditionally from Kuwait
Requests the States concerned to keep the Security Council regularly informed on the progress of actions and to remain seized of the matter. -
U.N. declares victory in the Persian Gulf War
Bush declared a ceasefire on February 28, ending the Persian Gulf War.
An estimated of 8,000 to 10,000 Iraqi forces were killed, in comparison with only 300 coalition troops.
The Gulf War was recognized as a decisive victory for the coalition but Kuwait and Iraq suffered enormous damage and Saddam Hussein was not forced from power. -
March on Washington
200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
It was organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country.
The march became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, leading to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call