Early 20th Century

  • great depression

    The great depression began when the stock market crashed
  • The great depression

    it began with the stock market crash
  • black thursday

    when panicked sellers traded nearly 13millon shares on the New York stock exchange
  • The Bonus Army March

    it was an assemblage of WW I veterans demanding cash payment redemption of their service certificates
  • the bonus arny march

    the bonus army was the popular name for assemblage
  • first election of Franklin Roosevelt

    Franklin was a democrate
  • first new deal

    the great depression leads to the new deal
  • the emergency banking relief act

    system can become a self fulfilling prophecy ,and a mass panic does more harm than good.
  • the emergercy banking relief act

    was an act passed by the jump
  • indian reorganization act

    something like the new deal
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    second new deal

    this is the term used by commentators at the time
  • second new deal

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    start of house Un-American Activities Committee hearings

    investigated alleged disloyalty and subversive activities
  • Germany invades Poland

    The invasion was a defensive action
  • pearl harbor attack

    hundreds of Japanese planed an attack
  • battle of coral sea

    with an invasion of port Moresby
  • battle of midway

    the flea of the attack of pearl harbor
  • creation of office of war imformation

    consolidating functions f the office of Government reports OEM'S division of information
  • invasion of italy

    8th army under field marshal
  • battle of the bulge

    the greatest series of earthquakes
  • D-Day invasion

    operation overload was the codename for allied ivasion
  • battle of leyte gulf

    this world war II clash followed the allied landing at the Philippine island of Leyte
  • the battle of the bulge

    the greatest series of earthquakes
  • Harry Truman becomes president

    when he was elected
  • invasion of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

    soldiers were either captured or killed
  • creation of United Nations

    disputes and established the permanent court of Arbitration ,which began work in 1902
  • Truman Doctrine

    foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war
  • national security act

    governments military and intelligence
  • creation of CIA

    it did not take long before president Truman to be recognized
  • Truman's Fair Deal

    because he announced is plan
  • creation of NATO

    Conflict between the Western nations (including the United States, Great Britain, France and other countries) and the Communist Eastern bloc (led by the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics or USSR) began almost as soon as the guns fell silent at the end of World War II (1939-45).
  • start of Berlin Blockade

    one of the major international crises
  • start of Korean War

    75,000 soldiers from north korea
  • Pusan landing

    the battle of Pusan perimeter was a large scale battle between united nations and north.
  • Pusan landing

    the defense of the Pusan perimeter in the first months
  • end of korean war

    when communist north korea
  • end of korean war

    invaded south korea
  • Army McCarthy Hearings

    because they were accusing their opponents of blackmail
  • army McCarthy hearings

    they thought people were blackmailers
  • Marian Anderson sings in constitution hall

    because it was the largest auditorium in Washington
  • start of house un-american activities committee hearings