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Railroad Workers Strike Nationwide
Due to the depression in the 1870's railroads were forced in a cost-cutting mode. The Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first major strike in an industry ever seen in American history. The strike stretched from the Atlantic all the way to the Pacific. This strike had so many working people met a violent death in the hands of authority. -
Congress Passes Sherman Anti-Trust Act
On July 2nd President Benjamin Harrison signed the bill into law. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first U.S. Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies.The law forbids every contract, scheme, deal, conspiracy to restrain trade, forbids conspirations to secure monopoly of any given industry. -
U.S. Steel Corporation Forms
The United States Steel Corporation was the largest business enterprise ever launched, with an authorized capitalization of $1.4 billion. U.S steel responded in changing economic conditions and new market opportunities. U.S. steel made up 67% of all steel produced in the U.S. -
Versailles Treaty
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after WWI ended. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The Versailles treaty deprived Germany of around 13.5% of its 1914 territory and all of its overseas possessions. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations task was to ensure that war never broke out again and to keep stability to the world (Coming into to the end of World War I). The only way to avoid a repetition of such a disaster, was to create an international body whose sole purpose was to maintain world peace and which would sort out international disputes. The League of Nations was to be based in Geneva, Switzerland. -
The Stock Market Crashes
October 21, 1929, stock prices started to fall, and people began to sell in massive quantities. On October 28, 1929, the market lost 13% of its value. October 29 (known as “Black Tuesday”), the stock market crashed and so much that certain stocks couldn’t be sold at any price. Then in 1932 the Great Depression began. -
The Japanese attack on Chinese Manchuria
Japan ivaded Manchuria because Japan was becoming increasingly crowded due to its limited size as a nation and its rapidly increasing population. It was also believed in Japan that Manchuria was rich in minerals, forestry and rich agricultural land. With the problems that Japan was experiencing at home, Manchuria seemed an obvious solution to these problems. -
Good Neighbor Policy
Roosevelt stated: “In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.” The Good Neighbor Policy was a diplomatic policy of the U.S., first presented in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt, for the encouragement of friendly relations and mutual defense among the nations of the Western Hemisphere. -
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
The CCC was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor. He believed that this civilian “tree army” would relieve the rural unemployed and keep youth “off the city street corners.” -
Glass-Steagall Act
Also known as the Banking Act of 1933 was passed by Congress in 1933 and prohibits commercial banks from engaging in the investment business. It was enacted as an emergency response to the failure of nearly 5,000 banks during the Great Depression. -
First Atomic Bomb Blast
An isolated corner of the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range located 230 miles south of Los Alamos was selected for the test that was given the code-name "Trinity." Many were apprehensive - there were concerns that the blast might launch a cataclysmic reaction in the upper atmosphere leading to world destruction. Some feared the consequences of radio-active fallout on civilian populations surrounding the test site. -
The Truman Loyalty Campaign
Due to the Americans fear of communism President Harry S. Truman issues an executive decree establishing a sweeping loyalty investigation of federal employees. Truman's loyalty plan was to ferret out Communism in every place in American Society. -
The Second Red Scare
During the 1950's (Cold War) many Americans feared nuclear attacks and the spread of communism. The U.S. government conducted investigations of suspected communists or communist sympathizers. Doing these efforts threatened Americans’ civil liberties. -
Civil Rights Movement
The African-American Civil Rights Movement was a social movements in the U.s. which the goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them. The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance, along with non-violent protests. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.
Brown v. Board of Education was trying to get schools intergrated because they felt segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. the court declared in 1955 that schools must be desegregated "with all deliberate speed." -
Liitle Rock Nine.
The Little Rock Nine were the nine African-American students involved in the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. These students had to have the U.S. NAtional Guards come protect them from any violence they may face. These kids made history by preventing further more desegregation efforts. -
The Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War started because of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894, there was a sugar tariff on imports to the United States. This made Cuba made becasue they mainly produced and sold sugar. In 1898, the US dispatched the USS Maine on a "friendly" mission to Cuba. -
Berlin Wall Collaspes
The Berlin Wall had a physical division between West Berlin & East Germany, it was a symbolic boundary between democracy and communism during the Cold War. In 1989 the East Berlins party announced the change in his city's relation with the West. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
Representatives from Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. They declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States. -
Columbine
Two high-school seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, enacted an all-out assault on Columbine High School in Colorado during the middle of the school day. The boys' plan was to kill hundreds of their peers with guns, knives, and a multitude of bombs. -
War Against Terror (9/11)
Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 people were killed during the attacks, resulted in extensive death and destruction.
