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Ecomomics 100 Year Timeline
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The Galveston
A hurricane that took place in Texas. More than 6,000 died. -
First Movie Theater Opened
The first cinema opened in America. -
Wright Brothers First Flight
The Wright Brothers created the first aircraft. -
Grand Central Station
The first large train station opened in the United States. This made transportation a bit easier. -
World War l Began
This war pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan (the Allied Powers). The Allies were joined after 1917 by the United States. -
End of World War l
The war that pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan had finally ended. -
Prohibition Began
Prohibition banned sales, transportation and production of alchol. -
First Commericial Radio Broadcast
Radio's typically broadcasted news, but now a commercial was broadcasted. -
Stock Market Crash & Great Depression
After a huge stock market crash the United States spirals downward. It causes what is known as the "Great Depression" -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt or FDR was elected president. When he was elected he was dealing with the prohibition and Great Depression in America. -
Prohibition Ends
The ban on alchol is lifted from the United States. -
World War ll Began
Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. -
Pearl Harbor is Bombed
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
World War ll Ends
This war took the lives of 45-60 million people. Six million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler's diabolical "Final Solution," now known as the Holocaust. -
End of War Baby Boom
After World War ll many babies were born. This lasted for a while after the war. -
First Credit Card Created
The Diner Club's card was the first credit card created, -
Korean War Began
Korea divided at the 38th parallel. Changing it from Korea to North and South Korea. -
Montgomery Boycott
After Rosa Parks was spoken to on the bus for taking a "white mans" seat, a bunch of blacks boycotted on the buses to prove a point. -
John F. Kennedy
The youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was also the first Catholic to become president. -
John F. Assassinated
Wasassassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. -
Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. -
Kent State Shooting
Four Kent State University students were killed and nine injured when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire during a demonstration protesting the Vietnam War. -
Los Angeles Earthquake
An earthquake struck in Los Angeles, California .The earthquake measured 6.6 on the Richter magnitude scale -
Oil Embargo
Began when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria and Tunisia) proclaimed an oil embargo. -
Mt. Saint Helens Erupts
An eruption column rose 80,000 feet into the atmosphere and deposited ash in 11 U.S. states.At the same time, snow, ice and several entire glaciers on the volcano melted, forming a series of large lahars (volcanic mudslides) that reached as far as the Columbia River. -
Titanic Found
Dr. Robert Ballard was determined to dicover the Titanic. Their first look at the Titanic lasted six minutes: she was upright and a large section of her hull was in tact. She laid 13,000 feet below the surface. -
"Black Monday"
Black Monday refers to Monday October 19, 1987, when stock markets around the world crashed, shedding a huge value in a very short time. -
Recession
The lumbering savings and loans industry was beginning to collapse, leading to a savings and loan crisis which put the financial wellbeing of millions of Americans in jeopardy. -
Bill Clinton
As president, Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history. -
Chicago Heat Wave
Led to approximately 750 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. Most of the victims of the heatwave were elderly poor residents of the inner city, who could not afford air conditioning and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime -
Twin Tower Bombing
Was a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. Two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within two hours, both towers collapsed -
War in Afghanistan
Was the intervention in the Afghan Civil War by the United States and its allies, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to dismantle Al-Qaeda, the Islamic terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden and to remove from power the Taliban. -
President Obama
He began his presidential campaign in 2007, and in 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic Party.
