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Preemption Act
Gave squatters the right to buy up to 160 acres for $1.25 per acre before the land was offered for sale to others. -
Homestead Act
The government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anoyone willing to live on the land for five yearss, dig a well, and build a road. -
Transcontiental Railroad
The railroad was complete and was drivern through Utah signaling its completion. -
Panic of 1873
This is the year where one of the nation's most influential banks had failed. They over extended loans to the railroad system at the time which had caused them to go bankrupt. -
Coinage Act
Congress passed this act to reverse the policy of backing money with gold and silver. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
California barred cities from employing people of Chinese ancestry -
President McKinley
died semptember 14th
McKinley was at the Pan-American Exposition in New York
Leon Czolgosz was the shooter -
Archduke Assassination
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is the event that sparks World War I -
ZImmerman Telegram
British gave Wilson the telegram which stated message from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann proposing that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. -
Route 66
Route 66 was fully paved in 1936
The route is over 2,000 miles long
It crosses the Colorado River in Topock, Arizona, and enters California. -
Holocaust
Adolft Hitler lead the Nazis
Made gas chambers and crematoriums
Wanted to exterminate all Jews -
African Campaign
Took place in North Africa and lasted until May 13th 1943
Included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia -
Italians Begin Assult
British turn the tide and win -
Yamamoto Isoruku
He is the Japanese naval admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the attack on Midway in 1942. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Cold War
The Cold War was when the United States and the Soviet Union went against eachother and resulted in mutual suspicions, heightened tensions and international incidents. This war is also known as Forgotten War. -
Korean War
When they decided to split up Korea as a whole and create North Korea and South Korea. North Korea were the communists and South Korea were against communism. -
Korea is Split
They split Korea because the Soviet Union occupied the northern half of the peninsula and the United States occupied the south, so it made sense to just spilt. -
V-E Day
The day of victory in Euorpe for the Allies in World War 2 -
V-J Day
The day that Japan accepted the allied surrender terms in World War 2 -
Divison Between KOREA
On this date Korea divided into North Korea and South Korea
Followed Japanese surrender -
No Peace Treaty
The armistice may have ended the war, but there was no offical peace treaty signed. Tensions still are high in both Koreas. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley, who is still well known today, became famouse for his music. He was nicknamed the King of Rock n Roll. His music started showing up on the radio and television in the mid 1950s -
Ngo Dinh Diem Becomes President
His presidency was short-lived because of all the Buddhists. No one would agree with things he wanted to do because he was Roman Catholic. -
John F. Kennedy Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated president JFk -
Operation Rolling Thunder
-Known as the strategic bombing campaign
-Occurred March 1965 to October 1968
-Sustained American assault on NVA territory and represented a major expansion of U.S. involvement -
Ho Chi Minh Bombing
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la Drang
The American artillery from la Drang was consistant and the NVA learned this later on. -
Tet Offensive
Some 70,000 NVA and Viet Cong forces launched a series of attacks on more than 100 SVA cities. -
My Lai Massacre
A company of American soldiers killed the majority of the SVA. After this higher-ranking American soldiers covered this story up for a yeaer without anyone knowing until 1970. -
Hamburger Hill
Hill 937 was the hill where many deaths had occurred. There were over 400 American casualties on this hill because of the elevation of the hill and because of the NVA. -
Woodstock
3 day music festival that was a huge success mentally, but physically there was a huge amounts of money thrown away in the garbage. -
Jackson State Shooting
-Policed fired at a black college
-Non-Jackson state student set a dump truck on fire
-Police came and students threw stones and bricks at them
-Police killed two men -
President Nixon Resigns
Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford took over presidency for Nixon. -
Persian Gulf War
Almost 150,000 Iraq troops overran Kuwaiti forces.
Iraq invades Kuwait -
Gathering Countries
About 700,000 troops gathered in Saudi Arabia. This included about 500,000 United States troops. -
United States Attack Iraq
5 week plan of bombardment on Iraq. Iraq cam back withScud missiles and launched them. -
Declaring Independence from Yugoslavia
This begins a Civil War -
Bill Clinton Won Presidential Election
Won against president George H.W. Bush -
Sarajevo Attacked
68 killed
200 wounded
There was an International Call for help and there also was images all over the place -
Military Impact
Massive NATO bombing forces -
Peace Be With You
Milosevic is ready
Agreed to Deomocratic elections- Bosnian Serb Republic and Muslim-Croat Federation
Agreed to two main portions- war criminals handed over for prosecution
