american history

  • 1939 BCE

    american ww2

    american ww2
    1939 to 1945
  • 1867 BCE

    russian sells land to american

    russian sells land to american
    March 30, 1867 russian alaska to american
  • 1861 BCE

    american civil war

    american civil war
    1861 1865
  • 1765 BCE

    american revolution

    american revolution
    american revolution
  • Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution

     Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution
    Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
  • american and mexico war

    american and mexico war
    we won 1848
  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

  • The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • 1905 — The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

  • ameican ww1

    ameican ww1
    1914 to 1918
  • US Congress created the National Park Service

  • cold war

    cold war
    1950 to 1991
  • north korea and south korea war 1950

    north korea and south korea war 1950
    U.s.s.r back north and ameriacn back south
  • cuba

    cuba
    the u.s.s.r gave cuba nukes
  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • moon landing

    moon landing
    we won the space
  • First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established

  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

  • 2021 — U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation