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Senator Thomas J. Walsh
Senator Thomas j. Walsh sold the oil resevered for the navy in 1923. But he sold them as a single bet contract. This is illegal in the U.S. Senator Thomas Walsh was the first senator to go to jail. In 1922 this all started -
Massacre 7
In 1929 Feb. 14 a massacre happened. Two of al Capone guys shot seven guys from Moran gang. Eye witness said that two cops came in t the garage and arrested them. The address was 2122 Clark Street. But al Capone didn’t get to go to jail he never got caught. -
Stock Crash
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Hooverville
A 'Hooverville' was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after the President of the United States at the time, Herbert Hoover, because he allegedly let the nation slide into depression. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee. -
Al Capone
Al Capone was a famous gangster in Chicago. He was a gang leader. He when to jail because of his taxes. Later on he die of a stoke caused by aids. But yet he still controlled everything from his jail cell. -
Kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh
The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was one of the most highly publicized crimes of the 20th century. The 20-month-old toddler was abducted from his family home in East Amwell, New Jersey, near the town of Hopewell, New Jersey, on the evening of March 1, 1932. Over two months later, on May 12, 1932, his body was discovered a short distance from the Lindbergh’s' home. A medical examination determined that the ca -
Americas Most Famous Prison
Alcatraz was one of the most famous prisons, when it was opened. When it opened in 1933 it help some of the most famous and dangerous inmates of its time. Al Capone, and George "Machine Gun" Kelly where very famous in the 1930's. Both of them where in mafias and had killed many people. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, on December 5, 1933. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent wind erosion. Deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains had displaced the natural deep-rooted grasses that normall -
Social Security
In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The original Social Security Act (1935) and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs.
Social Security is a social insurance program that is primarily funded through dedicated payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax(FICA). Tax deposits are formally entrusted to the Federal Old-Age and Survivo -
Holocaust
The Holocaust refers to the mass murder of about six million Jews by the Nazis in 1941-1945. The Jews in Germany were subject to growing persecution by the Nazis since the latter came to power in 1933. From 1938 onwards Hitler extended German control over a large part of Europe, especially after the invasion of Poland in 1939. In the process, the number of Jews under Nazi rule grew rapidly.
When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, special death squads moved in and carried out mass -
Pearl Harbor
On 7 December, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The goal of the Japanese attack was to cripple the Pacific Fleet, making it difficult for the United States to enter into the growing World War. In the attack, an estimated 2,350 people were killed, while 19 ships and over 200 planes were destroyed or severely disabled. However, because the Japanese did not attack American shipyards in California, while the Fleet was disabled, -
Interment Camp
120,313 people of Japanese descent came under the custody of the WRA (War Relocation Authority) on May 8, 1942. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, anti-Japanese politicians and writers suggested that a credible threat of espionage and sabotage existed, and convinced President Franklin D Roosevelt that people of Japanese descent presented a threat to the military security of Hawaii and of the US west coast. He issued an executive order, and more than one hundred thousand people were f -
D Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wou -
Cold War
The Cold War (often dated 1947–1991) was a sustained state of political and military tension between the powers of the Western world, led by the United States and its NATO allies, and the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, its satellite states and allies. This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson: Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play in baseball's major leagues in the modern era. Only white players were accepted in the major leagues until 1947, when Robinson was called up to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He made his first major league appearance on 15 April 1947. Robinson was named Rookie of the Year for 1947 and went on to appear in six World Series in ten seasons with the Dodgers
(1947-56). Other major league teams soon followed Brooklyn's lead and hi -
Rock and Roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s, and in blues records from the 1920s, rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s. -
Color TV
Color television is part of the history of television, the technology of television and practices associated with television's transmission of moving images in color video. In its most basic form, a color broadcast can be created by broadcasting three monochrome images, one each in the three colors of red, green and blue (RGB). When displayed together or in rapid succession, these images will blend together to produce a full color image as seen by the viewer. -
Korean War
The Korean War 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between the Republic of Korea (supported primarily by the United States of America, with contributions from allied nations under the aegis of the United Nations) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (supported by the People's Republic of China, with military and material aid from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The Korean War was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious All -
Disney Land
Disneyland Park is a theme park located in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. Known as Disneyland when it opened to the general public on July 18, 1955, and still almost universally referred to by that name, it is the only theme park to be designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. In 1998, the theme park was re-branded Disneyland Park to distinguish it from the larger Disneyland Resort complex. -
First Man in Space
America decided that they wanted to win the space race. To do this we formed a crew of astronauts called Apollo 11. They set of on their journey to the moon on July 20, 1969. We won this space race when Neil Armstrong took the first steps ever on the moon. Neil Armstrong is known for saying the following when he first stepped onto the moon, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic. They started constructing it on August 13, 1961. It was to cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and East Berlin. There were several guard towers and large concrete walls placed along the walls to protect the wall. The main purpose of the wall was to block transportation in Germany. -
" I Have a Dream" Speech
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech known as “I Have a Dream” on August 28, 1963. It was a 17 minute speech. In this speech he talked about racial equality and ending discrimination. It was a very important part of the American Civil Rights Movement. It was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll taken by scholars of public address. -
JFK Assasination
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963. He was killed in Dallas Texas. He was hit in his upper right back. They then fired another shot and there was blood and other bodily things, like skull, all over the limousine. President Kennedy waved to the crowds on his right with his right arm upraised on the side of the limo, a shot entered his upper back, penetrated his neck, slightly damaged a spinal vertebra and the top of hi -
Woodstock
Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a three day long music festival. It was held on a 600- acre dairy farm in New York. Thirty two acts performed on that rainy weekend and there were over 500,000 fans to watch the bands perform. It is known in history as one of the best music festival of all time. There are even documentaries out about this three day long peace festival. -
Ozone
Ozone depletion describes two distinct but related phenomena observed since the late 1970s: a steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in the ozone layer, and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth's Polar Regions. The latter phenomenon is referred to as the ozone hole. In addition to these well-known stratospheric phenomena, there are also springtime polartropospheric ozone depletion events -
Kent State
On May 4, 1970 there was a shooting at the university at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. It involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the National Guard. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American Invasion of Cambodia. President Nixon announced all of this on a television address on April 30th. Four Students died and nine were injured at Kent State. -
Sears Tower was Finished
Willis Tower, which is now known as the Sears Tower, is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. When it was finished in 1973 it was the tallest building in the world. It has been one of the tallest buildings ever since. It is the seventh tallest freestanding structure in the world, and the tallest building in the United States. On July 16, 2009 it became officially renamed as the Willis Tower. -
Nixon Resigns
In light of his loss of political support and the near certainty of impeachment, Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974, after addressing the nation on television the previous evening. He said that he resigned for the good of the country and asked the nation to support the new president who would be Gerald Ford. The reason why people wanted him impeached was because of Watergate. The term Watergate has come to mean lots of different things like illegal activities undertake -
American 200th Birthday
To celebrate Americas 200th anniversary of the adoption o the Declaration of Independence America held a series of celebrations called The United States Bicentennial. The anniversary was on July 4, 1976. They had lots of events including sailing ships, lots of parades, and lots of festivals all throughout America. There were also several specials broadcasted on television throughout the United States. -
Star Wars
On March 23, 1983, President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. This program was immediately dubbed Star Wars. -
Crack Cocaine
Crack cocaine is the freebase form of cocaine that can be smoked. It may also be termed rock, hard, iron, cavy, base, or just crack; it is the most addictive form of cocaine. Crack rocks offer a short but intense high to smokers. Crack appeared primarily in impoverished inner-city neighborhoods in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami in late 1984 and 1985.Its rise to popularity can be attributed to the discovery that baking soda was a low-cost and simple replacement for the diethyl ether used in pre -
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida. Disintegration of the entire vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster failed at liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed, allowing pressurized hot gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impin -
Oil Spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of crude oil. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters. The Valdez spill was the largest ever in U.S. waters until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in terms of volume released. However, Prince William Sound's -
Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. A 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) aperture telescope in low Earth orbit, Hubble's four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared. The telescope is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble. -
Waco Siege
The Waco Siege began on February 28, 1993, and ended violently 51 days later on April 19. The siege began when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Accompanied by several members of the media, attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel, a property located 9 miles east-northeast of Waco, Texas. On February 28, shortly after the attempt to serve the warrant, an intense gun battle erupted, lasting nearly 2 hours. In this armed exchange, -
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a South African politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first ever to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before being elected President, Mandela was a militant anti-apartheid activist, and the leader and co-founder of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mandela went on to serve 27 -
Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate. Estimates of the death toll have ranged between 500,000 and 1,000,000 or as much as 20% of the country's total population. It was the culmination of longstanding ethnic competition and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled p -
Dolly the Sheep
Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland. She was born on 5 July 1996 and she lived until the age of six, at which point she died from a progressive lung disease.[1] She has been called "the world's most famous she -
Y2K
On the New Years Eve of 1999 everyone was worried, worried of a thing known as Y2K. The Year 2000 problem was when people were afraid that computers would crash because they wouldn’t be able to comprehend the number 2000. There is only evidence of one computer that did crash because of the century change. It was at a bank. Everyone worried for no reason, as soon as the ball went all the way down the computers changed and everyone was fine including the computers. -
9/11
On September 11, 2001 New York City was attacked. 9/11 was a series of four suicide attacks that were aimed towards New York and Washington D.C. Both twin towers in New York City were attacked and they both collapsed. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes, none of whom survived. -
Shoe Bomber
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2005 hurricane season. It was a category five hurricane. It is one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It is the sixth strongest Atlantic hurricane. It affected the Bahamas, South Florida, Cuba, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida Panhandle, and most of eastern North America. -
Virginia Tech Massacre
The Virginia Tech Massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007 on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide.
