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Roosevelt 1st Election
Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker. Theodore Roosevelt won the popular vote by 56.4% and got 336 in the electoral college. -
Stock Market Crash
The stock market took a major dip. Causing millions of Americans to loose a lot of money because most Americans at this time invested a lot of money. -
Events that I want to add: FDR speech during great depression
During the great depression people were going crazy FDR was able to calm them down with being one of the people his famous speech helped. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -
CCC
This was one of the Presidents solutions to help people in the great depression. The ccc were work camps that built roads and national parks, and they where treated very well. -
Social Security Act
The social security act set a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents. It also gave unemployment insurance. -
Events I want to add: Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals
Jesse Owens in the summer Olympics won 4 track and field gold medals. This is significant because it was right in front of Hitler and he is a African American. -
FDR Court Packing Scandal
President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, reportedly to make it more efficient. People against the president immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to “pack” the court and thus neutralize Supreme court ruling. -
HUAC Formed
This was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. The HUAC was created in to investigate disloyal activities on the part of private citizens, public employees. -
Germany Breaks Munich Pact
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia. But they went further than they were supposed to. -
Battle of Britain
The battle of Britain was an Arial battle between Britain and Germany. Germany kept making bombing runs on Britain to be able to invade Britain easily, but Britain held there ground this was considered Hitler's first defeat. -
Events I want to add: Joe DiMaggio hits 56
Joe DiMaggio hits 56 hits in a row. Which made all of america for a moment forget the horrors of WW2. That day everyone forgot we were going to war. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
During world war 2 the united states were supplying the allies but never where officially in the war. The Japanese bombed pearl harbor making the us go to war. -
Events that tie in well to the timeline: Stalingrad
Hitler fought to take control of Stalingrad but lost because of the cold winter and was forced to retreat. This ties in well because this was a crucial loss for Hitler. -
Operation Overlord/D-Day
D-Day was the day the allies invade the iron curtain. They hit Normandy beaches forcing Germany back and eventually making them surrender. -
FDR Dies/Truman President
When FDR dies vice president Truman takes over. He is left with a major decision weather or not to drop the nuclear bomb. -
Nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Truman decided to drop two nuclear bombs in japan which ended the war without having to invade japan. The nuclear bombs completely wiped out the area they hit. -
United Nations created
The united nations was formed after world war 2 to help maintain peace. It was put in place to prevent another world war. -
Events I want to add: Jackie Robinson break the color barrier
Jackie Robinson become the first colored person to play in the mlb. Paving a way for a new generation of athletes, and changing the game forever. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin blockade lifted over the soviets blockade, and supplied support and food t the non soviets in east Germany. This escalated the cold war greatly. -
Truman Doctrine
This was an American foreign policy whose purpose was to counter Soviet's expansion during the Cold War. This was announced and signed by president Truman. -
Events that I want to add: Truman announces Soviets have exploded a nuclear device
The USSR tests a nuke for the first time. This really starts the cold war. -
Korean War (beginning and end)
This war lasted for 3 years and was a very bloody battle. North and south Korea pushed each others borders and they both ended up where they started. -
Rosenberg Trials
The Rosenbergs where accused of being communist spies. They where therefore executed. -
Brown v Board
The state of Kansas sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was than unconstitutional. -
Events that tie in well with the timeline: lynching of emit till
Emmett till whistled at a white women so a white man beat him to death. The mother decided to have an open casket to show what they did to his son. This ties in well because this really started he civil rights movement. -
Vietnam war (start to end)
The the us fought in Vietnam to prevent the spread of Communism. It was a very controversial war. We were able to pull out April 30th 1970. -
Events that tie in well to the timeline: Rosa Parks arrested
Rosa parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man. This started a bus boycott. Which greatly enhanced the civil rights movement. -
Sputnik
This was the first satellite to orbit earth it was launched by the soviets. This terrified Americans because we did not know what it is. -
events that tie in well to the timeline: Sncc formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from students. The organization greatly advanced the civil rights movement. -
Greensboro lunch Sit-ins
African Americans would go ans sit in at bars were they were refused to be served, and sit and wait. This was apart of there many well organized non-violent protests. -
Freedom Rides
They were were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in 1961, in order to beat the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court. -
Events that tie in well to the timeline White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
Federal troops who were protecting the freedom riders were attacked by an angry white mob. The angry white mob could not believe federal troops were protecting this non violent protest so they attacked them. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It divided communists and capitalists. -
Events that tie in well to the timeline: Bailey v Patterson
This case prohibited the segregation of interstate and intrastate transportation facilities. This included buses, trains, planes, that had been segregated since their existence. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the day the united states and the USSR came on the brink of destroying each other. But president Kennedy was able to prevent it. -
Events that tie in well with the timeline: MLK goes to a Birmingham jail
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham. -
Events that tie in well with the timeline: Equal pay act
The equal pay act gives equal pay based on sex. Employer can not discriminate pay. -
Events that tie in well to the timeline: Assassination of Medgar Evers
De La Beckwith planned more direct action than boycotts. On June 12, 1963, he assassinated NAACP leader Medgar Evers shortly after he arrived home. -
March on Washington
This is the famous speech that was the greatest factor to helping the civil right speech. MLK gave a speech in front of the white house and to a huge audience of protesters. Its fair to say MLK dreamed about this. -
Events that tie in well with the timeline: Bombing of a church in Birmingham
In 1963 a church with a mostly black congregation and also a meeting place for civil rights leaders was bombed. 4 young girls were killed, and many were injured. -
Assassination of JFK
President Kennedy was shot in a presidential motorcade. He was hit from the crowd. It is unknown if there were multiple shooters for sure. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This gave U.S. President Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress. For the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. -
Malcolm X assassination
Malcolm X was shot before he was about to deliver a speech about his new organization called the Organization of Afro-American Unity. It was inside a ballroom in New York. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The operations was the american continuously bombing north Vietnam so they could kill faster than north Vietnam would rebuild. This was very unsuccessful Americans wiped out a lot of Vietnam and it got them nowhere. -
Tet-offensive
The Tet offensive was north Vietnam and the Viet Cong going on the offensive and surprise attacking south Vietnam and america It was very successful. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights leader, was shot at a Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to a local Hospital, and was pronounced dead. -
woodstock
Woodstock was a music festival in the United States which got an audience of more than 400,000. It was on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of southern New York State, -
Kent State
There was a shooting in Kent state university during Vietnam. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and damaging nine others. -
Vietnam day
Every year this is a national holiday for veterans. It was decided after Vietnam that this was needed to be put in place. -
Events that I want to add The Jonestown Massacre
Jonestown Massacre was the site of the largest recorded mass suicide. This event is never talked about because of how devastating it was.
