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Salem Witch Trials
Hundreds of people were accused of practicing witchcraft. Nineteen of them were hanged after being convicted of witchcraft. -
Joining the war
World War I started in 1914, but the United States did not join the war until 1917. This war involved the Allies (Russia, France, and the United Kingdom) and the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary). This war broke out due to the policies of several European empires. -
Woman Suffrage
Te nineteenth amendment granting voting rights to women, was finally ratified. After that the voting right was spread to
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt received a decoded message that instructedJapan's peace envoy to reject all American Peace proposals. The next day Japanese dive-bomber swooped down over pearl harbor and bombed the base. -
Improving labor conditions
the supreme court declared the NIRA unconstitutional, citing that the federal goverment had violated legislativeauthorityreserved for individual states. the federal goverment protected the rights of orkers to join unions and engage in collective barganing. -
Little Rock Central High School
President Eisenhower mobilized federla troopps in Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce the supreme court's 1954 ruiling in the case of brown vs. board of Education of Topeka. This ruiling made segregation in public schools illegal. The national gaurd escorted nine African-American students into highschool. -
Nuclear missles discovered in cuba
a spy plane discovered that the Soviet Union was building nuclear missiles in Cuba. President Kennedy placed a naval blockage around the island to prevent the Soviet Union from bringing in more supplies. After thirteen days, the Soviet Union agreed to take down the weapon sites if the United States would not invade Cuba. -
Twin towers
terrorists took control of four airplanes. They crashed two planes into the World Trade Center in New York and one plane into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. This was the deadliest attack ever to occur on American soil. -
Hurricane katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a destructive hurricane that occurred in 2005. It was one of the five deadliest hurricanes in United States history, killing more than 1,800 people. It also caused more than $80 billion in property damage. -
Barak Obama
Barack Obama was voted the president of the United States. He was the first African American person elected to this position.
