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Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market Crash is a Government shutdown that occurred because Americans buying to may stocks and not being able to pay off the debts. Which resulting in one of the worlds greatest depression we ave ever seen -
Roosevelt 1st Election
The governor of New York at the time Franklin D Roosevelt was elected president on November 8th 1932 he became the 32nd president wining in a landslide against the republican parties nominee and former president Hubert Hoover. Marking the end of the fourth party system and the starting of the second party system. -
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps was a public service work program founded by FDR that excelled during the great depression. That help many young men from ages 18-25 have shelter and make money while helping build and shape America. This group was truly remarkable in a time where america needed a lot of helping plant over three billion trees,building trails,shelters and more than 800 parks. This program lasted nine years from 1933-1942. -
Social Security Act
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FDR Court Packing Scandal
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HUAC Formed
The House Un-American Activities Committee is a group formed by the House of Representatives in the early years of the cold war to stop communist activity and discredit Roosevelt´s new programs in America. -
Germany Breaks Munich Pact
The Munich Pact was an agreement signed by Germany, France, Great Britain and Italy. permitting Nazis. Taking away portions of Czechoslovakia from Germany, And forcing Germany to pay off the damage they caused from WW1 putting the country in debt. But Hitler broke this agreement on September 30th 1938 by invading Czechoslovakia and starting World War. -
Battle of Britain
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on pearl harbor was an ambush by the Japanese on the United States naval base on Oahu Island Hawaii, Damaging more than 180 aircraft's causing 3400 causalities and killing 2300. Instigating United States entry into World War II. -
Operation Overlord/D-Day
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FDR Dies/Truman President
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Nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The nuclear bombs was a controversial and regretful move by the United States using lethal bombs to bomb cities in japan Hiroshima and Nagasaki Killing over 200 thousand innocent men and women to stop the war against japan and scare them. -
United Nations created
The United Nations is an declaration by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed by representatives of 26 countries, the goal of the united nations was to keep the world peace after the second world war. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is a declaration by U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman vowing immediate economic and military care to countries threatened by communists. -
Berlin Airlift
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Korean War (beginning and end)
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Rosenberg Trials
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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Brown v Board
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Vietnam war (start to end)
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Sputnik
During the cold war the united states and the soviet union were battling who can get to space first and the soviet union got there first with a satellite called sputnik which scared the world and shocked the united states most of all because if they can get a satellite up before them then they can spy on them from the satellite maybe attack from the satellite -
Greensboro lunch Sit-ins
Greensboro sit ins was a civil rights protest against segregated lunch counters through the south where in 1960 Young African American SNCC workers staged a sit in at Greensboro North Carolina and they refused to leave after being denied service most protesters was arrested but they made a lastly impact forcing Woolworth's and many other places to change there segregated policies -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders was a group of Black and White Men and Women civil rights activists. who took a bus through the south to protest the segregated buses but along the ride they drew alot of attention. -
The first American troops arrive in South Vietnam.
The first American troops arrive in South Vietnam. On December 11th 1961 The United States sent there first troops in south Vietnam to help them fight against the North Vietnamese -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a scare that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.Aimed at The United States. In an Soviet operation to defend Cuba -
March on Washington
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Assassination of JFK
On November 22 1963 John F Kennedy was assassinated in his vehicle outside of Dealey Plaza by Lee Harvey Oswald although there is no clear evidence of him being the shooter or if it was only him -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was a report of the two U.S. Navy destroyers, U.S.S. Maddox and U.S.S. Turner Joy being attacked by the North Vietnamese patrol boats. Then after that the congress would make it their mission to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to launch a full scale war against North Vietnam. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a Black Nationalist/Civil Rights Leader and advocated for Muslim religion Unlike MLK Malcolm X believed in violence fight fire with fire he was assassinated by a Nation of Islam leader speaking at one of his organizations rallies in New York. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation was bombing campaign mission created by America In the Vietnam war. This Operations purpose was to significantly reduce the capacity of the North Vietnamese forces but this operation deemed a bad one when they would kill 50 thousand north Vietnam would just bring more instead of having less. -
battle of la drang
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Antiwar protesters
in 1967 was a crazy year in America full of anti war protests everywhere forcing the government to focus on there citizens needs and how the Vietnam war was soon becoming a pointless war -
Tet-offensive
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Mai Lai Massacre
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Assassination of MLK
M.L.K was assassinated outside his hotel room in Memphis Tennessee by James Earl Kay -
Presidency of Nixon
Richard Nixon was inaugurated president January 20th 1969 vowing to stop the Vietnam war which was a big part of history because he would later on play a big part in stopping the war. -
woodstock
The Woodstock is a music festival that started in 1969 to celebrate peace, love and rock n roll taking place in New York this festival is celebrated and loved by many.. this festival helped musicians express there opinion of the Vietnam war through music. -
Nixon calls on the “silent majority”
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Kent State
Kent State shooting was a devastating event on May 4th 1970 when individuals of Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd injuring 9 students and killing 4, At a protest against the Vietnam war Starting a student-led strike forcing the government to temporarily shutdown universities around the country. -
operation Lam Son 719
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Cease-fire agreement
Cease-fire agreement was a peace treaty that north and south Vietnam and US agreement to stop war. And stop fight for temporary period of time like a truce -
Last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam.
The Last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam. on March 29th 1973, Signifying the temporary end to the messy and bloody Vietnam War. -
Saigon falls.
On April 30th 1975 North Vietnam ambushes south Vietnamese capital city Saigon betraying the cease-fire agreement and taking the city Saigon in about 3 days -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic to keep the western fascists from entering East Germany