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STORY : Territory of Wyoming Gives Women the Right to Vote
The Territory of Wyoming passes the first law in the nation giving women over age 21 the right to vote. -
STORY : Theodore Rooselvet's Progressive Party
Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive (Bull Moose/Republican) Party becomes the first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank. -
STORY : National Federation of Women's Clubs
The National Federation of Women's Clubs which by this time included more than two million white women and women of color throughout the United States formally endorses the suffrage campaign. -
STORY : Woman Suffrage Amendment
The federal woman suffrage amendment that was written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced in Congress in 1878. It was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. -
STORY : National Woman's Party
The National Woman's Party first proposes the Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender. It has never been ratified. -
Stock Market Crash
Investors traded 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. This put many people in debt and caused chaos -
Roosevelt 1st Election
Roosevelt wins his first presidential election. He becomes the 37th president by defeating his defeated the democratic nominee Alton. B. Parker. -
CCC
CCC was a work relief program that helped men who were unemployed. This helped the men in need and gave them the opportunity to start a new life after. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits. These benefits were for workers, for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
FDR Court Packing Scandal
FDR announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme court to as many as 15 judges. This was to make it more efficient. People critized him for this plan and claimed he was trying to neutralize Supreme Court Justices. -
HUAC Formed
The House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representative. They were created to investigate private citizens, public employees and organizations that have communist links. -
Germany breaks Munich Pact
Adolf Hitler broke the Munich Pact by taking the rest of Czechoslovakia. The English Prime minister then realized that Hitler could not be trusted and ended appeasement policy. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War. This consited of the Royal Air Force defending the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This attack killed 2400 and brought the US into war. -
D-Day
This was the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy. This resulted in the Allied Liberation of Western Europe from Germany's control. -
FDR dies/Truman President
FDR passes away after 4 years in charge. His Vice President Truman takes over his presidency and takes control of America. -
Nuclear Bomb dropped on Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons. The nuclear weapons were dropped over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
United Nations Created
A replacement for the League of Nations. They were created after WWII with the goal of preventing another confict. -
Truman Doctrine
Made by President Truman. He established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Korean War Beginning
Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War -
Rosenberg Trials
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. This was over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
Brown v Board of Education
This declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This was a big step forward. in the civil rights movement -
Korean War End
This armistice formally ended the war in Korea. North and South Korea remain separate and occupy almost the same territory they had when the war began. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a war between North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese in which the South was trying to protect Democracy and Capitalism while the North was spreading Communism. -
Sputnik
Soviet Union sent Sputnik to orbit the earth. This was the first satellite to ever orbit. -
Greensboro Sit-Ins
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. -
Berlin Wall
A concrete wall that the Germans built to divide Berlin. They made this wall so that East Germans couldn't flee to the Democratic West side of Berlin. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists. They rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning the American ballistic missile employement. This is considered the closest event during the Cold War that could've led to a nuclear war. -
STORY : Equal Pay Act Becomes Federal Law
First proposed 20 years earlier, the lawsays employers must give equal pay for men and women performing the same job duties regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the worker. -
March on Washington
The event was aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. -
16th Baptist Church
A bomb at the 16th Baptist Church in Alabama killed four young girls. This was traumatizing and shocked everyone -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. The event was public so many people saw this awful scene. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a document that authorized US involvment in the Vietnam War. The resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist. -
MLK Nobel Prize
Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded this prize for his nonviolent anti-racism protests. He became the youngest person to get this award. -
Vietnam Day
The Vietnam day commitee was a group of left wing political groups, it is known as the biggest start to the anti-war movement. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcolm X was shot before he was about to deliver a speech. This speech was going to be about his new organization called the Organization of Afro-American Unity. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Bombing campaign by the United States military against the North Vietnamese during Vietnam War. This was to put military pressure on North Vietnam's communist leaders. -
King March
King leads a march on Washington. This march was for more jobs and freedom for everyone. -
Black Panthers Founded
The Black Panthers Organisation is created by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. They were a party for self-defense. -
STORY : Civil Rights Protections Extended to Women
President Lyndon B. Johnson issues Executive Order 11375, which expands affirmative action policies of 1965 to cover discrimination based on sex. -
Tet Offensive
A bombing campaign by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong over South Vietnam. They attacked civilians and soldiers. This was a sign that the US was loosing the war and enraged the public. -
MLK Assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. This event sent shock to everyone around the world. -
Civil Rights Act
President Johnson signed this act that prohibits discrimination by renters or sellers of property -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a Music and Art fair which attracted a lot of audience in the 1960´s. -
Kent State
Students protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. -
STORY : Equal Rights Amendment
Phyllis Schafly organized support against the Equal Rights Amendment. She believed that if women were granted equal rights to men then they would have to go to war. -
Watergate
It was a presidential scandal during the Nixon administration in which Nixon told campaign officials to implant spying ware in the watergate complex in Washington DC -
STORY : Housing Discrimination
Housing discrimination on the basis of sex and credit discrimination against women are outlawed by Congress. -
STORY : Supreme Court for Women
The Supreme Court denies states the right to exclude women from juries. -
Vietnam War End
The Vietnam war ended with the North Winning to the fall of Saigon. -
STORY : Employment Discrimination Against Pregnant Women Banned
The Pregnancy Discrimination Actensures that employment discrimination on account of pregnancy is treated as unlawful sex-based discrimination. -
Overriding President Reagan's Veto
Expanded the reach of non discrimination laws.
