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Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. the segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated. These Jim Crow Laws were separate from the 1800–1866 Black Code -
WWI
The united states tried to say nutral during WWI until germany was sinking us ships becuase we were transporting goods to the other side and they didnt want them to getr their goods so they were sinking our ships so we seclared war on germany. -
Armenian Genocide
In 1915, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Though reports vary, most sources agree that there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. By the early 1920s, when the massacres and deportations finally ended, some 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians were dead, with many more forcibly removed from the country. -
Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. The Red Scare led to a range of actions that had a profound and enduring effect on U.S. government and society. -
The great depression
With the famous Black Tuesday stock market crash, but economists and historians point to an economic downturn which took hold in early 1929. The stock market crash led to unprecedented runs on banks, and by 1933, more than 11,000 of the nation’s 25,000 banks had failed. It ended at the start of WWII. -
The Holocaust
was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others[3] during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory.More than one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, as were approximately two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men. -
Nazi concentration camps
The first camp in Germany,prisoners were forced to wear identifying overalls with colored badges according to their categorization: red triangles for Communists and other political prisoners, green triangles for common criminals, pink for homosexual men, purple for Jehovah's Witnesses, black for Gypsies and asocials, and yellow for Jews.Many of the prisoners died in the concentration camps through deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labor. -
Adolf Hitler
He was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He belived that you shouldnt be able to live if you were jewish.He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is most commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust. -
WWII
Was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations including all of the great powers eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised. -
Battle of Britain
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. A significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended. -
Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Adolf hitler commited suicide
In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married Eva Braun, his long-time mistress. To avoid capture by the Red Army, the two committed suicide less than two days later on 30 April 1945 and their corpses were burned. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe.In late 1952, Eisenhower went to Korea and discovered a military and political stalemate.He died on March 28, 1969(aged 78) -
Vietnam War
The battle of Dien Bien Phu was a fierce battle lasting 170 days between the French Expeditionary Corps and the Viet Minh.The battle was a response to the French attempt to occupy Dien Bien Phu. Operation Castor began on November 20, 1953. With a large air drop of French troops into the valley and the construction of protected air strip. -
Women Movement
Largely based in the United States, this diverse social movement seeks equal rights and opportunities for women in their economic activities, personal lives and politics. -
JFK
He was the 35th prisiednt serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.He surved in the military service as commander of during World War II.Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43. -
"I have a dream"
It is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The speech, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Prominent American leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. On June 10, 1968, James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime.On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee state penitenery -
Saddam Hussin
Was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalized oil and other industries. In March 2003, a coalition of countries led by the U.S. and U.K. invaded Iraq to depose Saddam, controversially citing his weapons of mass destruction and terror links. Following his capture on 13 December 2003. -
Gulf War
was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of the State of Kuwait. -
Rwanda Genocide
Was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda.The Rwandan military and Hutu militia groups, notably the Interahamwe, systematically set out to murder all the Tutsis they could reach, regardless of age or sex, as well as the political moderates among the Hutu. -
Oklahoma City bombing
Timothy McVeigh, an anti-government militant, set off a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. The blast collapsed one side of the nine-story building and cost 168 people their lives. -
9/11 attack
On that day 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center after passengers attempted to both towers collapsed within two hours. The fourth jet, United Airlines , crashed into a field in Virginia. after passengers attempted to take control before it could reach the hijacker's intended target in in Washington, D.C. -
First black President Obama
On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the 44th president, and the first African American to be elected to that office. -
Osama bin Laden Killed
He was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. -
Anwar al- Awlaki killed
was a Yemeni-American imam who was an engineer and educator by training. According to U.S. federal government officials,[ he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved with planning operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda.His sermons are alleged to have helped motivate at least three attacks inside the United States,
