U.S. History

  • Period: 1050 to

    1950"s Prosperity

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    American Civil War

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    The Homestead Act was created because all the land i the west was given to the people that wanted land.So they have to give for free because no one was using it.
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    Reconstruction

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    Transcontinental Railroad Completed
    the first railroad was finished.
  • Industrialization Begins to Boom

  • 15 Amendment

    15 Amendment
    (Men African american) VOTE
  • Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall

  • Telephone Invented

  • Reconstruction Ends

  • Jim Crow Laws In the South

    Jim Crow Laws In the South
    Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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    Gilded Age

  • Light Bulb Invented

  • Third Wave of Immigration

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    The Chinese people couldn't enter America for 10 years because they were different the others.
  • Pendleton Act

     Pendleton Act
    Established a merit-based system of selecting government officials and supervising their work.
  • Dawes Act

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    The price of all railroads were to high and they have to have the same price.
  • Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

    Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
    Describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
  • Chicago's Hull House

    Chicago's Hull House
    Women in the Progressive Era. In 1889, Jane Addams and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, founded Hull House, a settlement house, in a large home in Chicago. At the beginning, Hull House offered day care services, libraries, classes, and an employment bureau
  • Klondike Gold Rush

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act
    big business man companies owners were doing monopoly.
  • How the Other Half Lives

    How the Other Half Lives
    How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s.
  • Influence of Sea Power Upon History

    Influence of Sea Power Upon History
    In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
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    The Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

    A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
  • Homestead Steel Labor Strike

  • Pullman Labor Strike

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    Plessy v. Ferguson, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.
  • Annexation of Hawaii

    Annexation of Hawaii
    Soon after, President Benjamin Harrison submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian islands to the U.S. Senate for ratification. In 1897, the treaty effort was blocked when the newly-formed Hawaiian Patriotic League, composed of native Hawaiians, successfully petitioned the U.S. Congress in opposition of the treaty.
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba.
  • Open Door Policy (1899)

    Open Door Policy (1899)
    doors were open to other countries to trade in with China
  • Assassination of President McKinley

    Assassination of President McKinley
    The 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. He was shaking hands with the public when Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot him twice in the abdomen.
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    Theodore Roosevelt

    Political- Republican Party/ The Progressive Party "Bull Moose" Party
    Domestic Policies: Trust-Buster, Nature Conservation (Square Deal= 3C's)
  • Wright Brothers Airplane

    Wright Brothers Airplane
    The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited
  • Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins

    Building the Panama Canal, 1903–1914. President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
  • The Jungle

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Model T

    Model T
    The Ford Model T is an automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.
  • NAACP

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    William Howard Taft

    Political: Republican
    Domestic Policies: 3C's 16th/17th/ Amendment
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment
    The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
  • Federal Reserve Act

    Federal Reserve Act
    The Federal Reserve Act is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal.
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    Woodrow Wilson

    Political: Democrat
    Domestic Policies: Clayton Anti-Trust Act National Service, Federal Reserve Act, 18th/19 Amendment
  • • 17th Amendment (1914)

    •	17th Amendment (1914)
    The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Trench Warfare, Poisons Gas, and Machine Guns

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    WW1

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania
    On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland.
  • National Parks System

    National Parks System
    Is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
  • Russian Revolution

    The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
  • U.S entry into WW1

  • Battle of Argonne Forest

  • Armistice

  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment
    No alcohol
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    women rights
  • President Harding's Return to Normalcy

    President Harding's Return to Normalcy
    In the early twentieth century, President Warren Harding popularized the word normalcy with his slogan: “return to normalcy," about getting back to normal life after the war.
  • Harlem Renaissance

  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
    A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism,
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    Roaring Twenties

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    Roaring Twenties

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

  • Joseph Stalin Leads USSR

    Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
    Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953.
  • Scopes "Monkey" Trail

  • Mein Kampf publish

    Mein Kampf publish
    Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler
  • Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight

  • St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

    St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
    The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder in Chicago of seven men of the North Side gang during the Prohibition Era
  • Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”

    Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”
    Stock market crash of 1929, also called the Great Crash , a sharp decline in U.S. stock market values in 1929 that contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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    Great Depression

  • Hoovervilles

    Hoovervilles
    A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression
  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

  • 100, 000 Banks Have Failed

  • Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

  • Public Works Administration (PWA)

  • Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
    On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

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    New Deal Programs

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    The Holocaust

    The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadianprairies during the 1930s;
  • Social Security Administration (SSA)

  • Rape of Nanjing

    Rape of Nanjing
    The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromna
  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler invades Poland
    ww2 started
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    World War 2

    World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier.
  • German Blitzkrieg Attacks

    German Blitzkrieg Attacks
    Blitzkrieg (German, "lightning war") is an anglicised term, describing a method of warfare, whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorized or mechanized infantry formations with close air support,
  • Navajo Code Talkers

  • Tuskegee Airmen

    Tuskegee Airmen
    The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japan attack US
  • Excutive Order 9066

    Excutive Order 9066
    Executive Order 9066 is a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942,
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
    The Bataan Death March was the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II. The 63-mile march began with 72,000* prisoners
  • Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)

    Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
    The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots
  • Gi Bill

    Gi Bill
    The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans
  • GI Bill 1944

    GI Bill 1944
    The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans It was designed by the American Legion, who helped push it through Congress
  • Atomic bombing of Nagaski and Hiroshima

  • Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day

    Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
    Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II
  • Liberation of Concetration Camps

  • Victory of Europe (VE) Day

  • United Nation Formed

  • Germany Diveded

    Germany Diveded
    Germany was divided west capitalism and east cummunism
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    Harry S Truman

  • Nuremberg Trails

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    Baby Boom

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    Baby Boom

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China

    Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
    Mao adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927. ... On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a single-party state controlled by the CPC.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey.
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    The Cold War

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13,000,000,000.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The United Nations fly in supplies to West Berlin
  • Arab-Israeli War Begins

    Arab-Israeli War Begins
    The Arab-Israeli War of 1948. The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948.
  • NATO Formed

    NATO Formed
    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European
  • Kim Il-sung invades South Korea

    Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
    the NK invades Sk to make a whole country like it was
  • Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War (1950)

    Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War (1950)
    The 300,000-man Chinese offensive caught the U.N. forces off guard, largely because of U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's belief that China would not openly enter the war, and vastly expanded the conflict.
  • • UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China

    •	UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
    When the Japanese empire was dismantled at the end of World War Two, Korea fell victim to the Cold War. It was divided into two spheres of influence along the 38th parallel.
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    Korean War

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    1950s Prosperity

  • Ethel and Julius Rosengberg Execution

    Ethel and Julius Rosengberg Execution
    The United States Federal Bureau of Prisons did not operate an electric chair when the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death.
  • Armistice Singed

    Armistice Singed
    The Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950, when the North Koreans invaded South Korea, officially ended on July 27, 1953.
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    Warren Court

  • Hernandez v. Texas

  • Brown v. Board of education

  • Ho Cho Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam

  • Warshaw Pact Formed

    Warshaw Pact Formed
    the Soviet Union created only for communist
  • Polio Vccine

  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    refuse to give up her seat in the bus
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    African Americans dint use the bus for over a year
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    Vietnam War

  • Interstate Highway Act

    Interstate Highway Act
    The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. It took several years of wrangling, but a new Federal-Aid Highway Act passed in June 1956. The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation
  • Elvis Presley First Hit Song

    Elvis Presley First Hit Song
    February 1956. As "Heartbreak Hotel" makes its climb up the charts on its way to #1, "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" b/w "Mystery Train," Elvis' fifth and last single to be released on the Sun label, hits #1 on Billboard's national country singles chart. His first #1 hit on a national chart.
  • Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV

    Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
    American television sitcom about an inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver (portrayed by Jerry Mathers), and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood.
  • Sputnik I

    Sputnik I
    The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.
  • Civil Rights of 1957

     Civil Rights of 1957
    The Civil Rights Act of 1957, Pub.L. 85–315, 71 Stat. 634, enacted September 9, 1957, a federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875
  • Voting Right Act of 1957

    Voting Right Act of 1957
    The Civil Rights Act of 1957, Pub.L. 85–315, 71 Stat. 634, enacted September 9, 1957, a federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
  • Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate

  • Chicano Mural Movement Begins

    Chicano Mural Movement Begins
    The Chicano mural movement began in the 1960s in Mexican-American barrios throughout the Southwest. Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
  • Peace Corps is Formed

    Peace Corps is Formed
    On September 22, 1961, Kennedy signed congressional legislation creating a permanent Peace Corps that would “promote world peace and friendship” through three goals: (1) to help the peoples of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women; (2) to help promote a better understanding of Americans
  • Mapp v. Ohio

  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action
    Affirmative action, also known as reservation in India and Nepal, positive action in the UK, and employment equity in Canada and South Africa, is the policy of protecting members of groups
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    John F. Kennedy

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American
  • Sam Walton Opens First Walmart

  • Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas

    Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
    Kennedy gets shot in a perade
  • Gideon v. Wainwright

  • George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrence

    George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrence
    Segregation forever!” When African American students attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama in June 1963, Alabama's new governor, flanked by state troopers, literally blocked the door of the enrollment office.
  • The Feminine Mystique

    The Feminine Mystique
    The Feminine Mystique is a book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. It was published on February 19, 1963 by W. W. Norton.
  • March in Washington

    March in Washington
    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
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    Lyndon B. Johnson

  • The Great Society

    The Great Society
    The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
  • Escobedo v.Illinois

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    Gulf of Tonkin
    U.S was spying on North Vietnam
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    free slaves
  • Malcom X Assassinated

    Malcom X Assassinated
    Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks
  • United Farm Worker's California Delano Grape Strike

    United Farm Worker's California Delano Grape Strike
    The Delano grape strike was a labor strike by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers against grape growers in California. The strike began on September 8, 1965
  • Miranda v. Arizona

  • Thurgood Marshal Appointed to Supreme Court

    Thurgood Marshal Appointed to Supreme Court
    first african american in court
  • Six Day War

    Six Day War
    The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    In late January, 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. ... The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    Cityzens
  • Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated

    Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
    gets killed in the balcony of an apartment
  • My Lai Massacre

    My Lai Massacre
    The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam on 16 March 1968.
  • Tinker v. Des Moines

  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization
    the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
  • Woodstock Music Festival

    Woodstock Music Festival
    The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock— was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.
  • Draft Lottery

    Draft Lottery
    366 blue plastic capsules contained the birthdays that would be chosen in the first Vietnam draft lottery drawing on December 1, 1969. The first birth date drawn that night, assigned the lowest number, “001,” was September 14.
  • Manson Family Murders

    Manson Family Murders
    The Manson Family was a commune established in California in the late 1960s, led by Charles Manson. They gained national notoriety after the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others on August 9, 1969 by Tex Watson
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18
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    Richard Nixon

  • Invasion of Cambodia

    Invasion of Cambodia
    On April 30th of 1970, President Richard Nixon declared to a television audience that the American military troops, accompanied by the South Vietnamese People's Army, were to invade Cambodia. The invasion was under the pretext of disrupting the North Vietnamese supply lines
  • Kent State Shooting

    Kent State Shooting
    The Kent State shootings were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest
  • Environment Protection Agency (EPA)

    Environment Protection Agency (EPA)
    The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment
  • Pentagon Papers

    Pentagon Papers
    The court held that the government had failed to justify restraint of publication. The Pentagon Papers revealed that the Harry S. Truman administration gave military aid to France in its colonial war against the communist-led Viet Minh, thus directly involving the United States in Vietnam; that in 1954 Pres.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment
    18 years old = vote
  • Policy of Detente Begings

    Policy of Detente Begings
    Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev
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    Jimmy Carter

  • Title IX

    Title IX
    Title IX, as a federal civil rights law in the United States of America, was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972.
  • Nixon Visits China

    Nixon Visits China
    U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China (officially the People's Republic of China or PRC) was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's rapprochement between the United States and China
  • Watergate Scandal

    Watergate Scandal
    The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters
  • War Power Movement

  • Roe v. Wade

    Roe v. Wade
    Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions
  • OPEC Oil Embargo

    OPEC Oil Embargo
    Oil Embargo, 1973–1974. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations.
  • First Cell-phones

  • Engaged Species Act

    Engaged Species Act
    The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) was signed on December 28, 1973, and provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend
  • United States v. Nixon

  • Fords Pardon Nixon

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    Gerald Ford

  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    The city was thereby renamed Ho Chi Minh City, after North Vietnam's source of inspiration, their Communist leader. The Fall of Saigon was a very important event because it marked not only the end of the Vietnam War, but the beginning of the formal reunification of Vietnam under Communist Rule.
  • Bill Gates Starts Microsoft

  • National Rifle Associate Lobbying Begins

    National Rifle Associate Lobbying Begins
    The National Rifle Association of America is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights
  • Steve Jobs Starts Apple

  • Community Reinvestment Act of 1977

    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
    The Community Reinvestment Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations. ... Comments will be taken into consideration during the next CRA examination.
  • Camp David Accords

    Camp David Accords
    The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.
  • Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

  • War on Drugs

  • AIDS Epedic

  • Sandra Day O'Connor Appointed to U.S Supreme Court

  • Conservation Resurgence

    Conservation Resurgence
    Its initiators called it the Conservative Resurgence while its detractors labeled it the Fundamentalist Takeover. It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by liberals.
  • "Trickle Down Economics

    "Trickle Down Economics
    Trickle-down economics, also referred to as trickle-down theory, is an economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term
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    Ronald Reagan

  • Marines in Lebanon

    Marines in Lebanon
    Facts: October 23, 1983 - 241 US service personnel -- including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel -- are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon. Three hundred service members had been living at the four-story building at the airport in Beirut.
  • Iran-Contra Affair

  • The Oprah Winfrey Show First Aired

  • "Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"

    "Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"
    "Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier
  • Berlin Wall Falls

    Berlin Wall Falls
    The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
  • End of Cold War

    End of Cold War
    During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
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    George H. Bush

  • Germany Reunification

    Germany Reunification
    The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited
  • Iraq Invades Kuwait

    Iraq Invades Kuwait
    The Invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 was a 2-day operation conducted by Iraq against the neighboring state of Kuwait, which resulted in the seven-month-long Iraqi occupation of the country.
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    Persian Gulf War

  • Operation Desert Storm

  • Ms. Adcox Born

  • Soviet Union Collapses

    Soviet Union Collapses
    Soviet Union changed name to Russia
  • Rodney King

    Rodney King
    Rodney Glen King was an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991.
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    Bill Clinton

  • NAFTA Founded

  • Contract with America

    Contract with America
    The 1994 elections resulted in Republicans gaining 54 House and 9 U.S. Senate seats. When the Republicans gained this majority of seats in the 104th Congress, the Contract was seen as a triumph by party leaders such as Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and the American conservative movement in general
  • O.J Simpson's "Trail of the Century"

    O.J Simpson's "Trail of the Century"
    The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in which former National Football League player, broadcaster, and actor Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson
  • Bill Clinton's Impeachment

    Bill Clinton's Impeachment
    The impeachment process of Bill Clinton was initiated by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, against Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice.
  • Rafael Garcia's Birthday

  • USA Patriot Act

    USA Patriot Act
    The USA PATRIOT Act is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. With its ten-letter abbreviation (USA PATRIOT) expanded, the full title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001”
  • 9/11 (September 11, 2001

    9/11 (September 11, 2001
    Twin Towers were hit by a plane
  • War on Terror

    War on Terror
    The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001.
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    George W. Bush

  • NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins

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    War of Afghanistan

  • Facebook Launched

    Facebook Launched
    Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly tropical cyclone that is tied with Hurricane Harvey of 2017 as the costliest tropical cyclone on record.
  • Iphone Released

    Iphone Released
    On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released.
  • Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S Supreme Court

  • American Recovery and Reinvested Act of 2009

  • Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S Secretary of State

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    Barack Obama

  • Arab Spring

  • Osama Bin Laden Killed

  • Space X Falcon 9

  • Donald Trump Elected President