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Invention of telephone
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Rise of Industrial America
In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many new ones, including petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, and electrical power, emerged. Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy. -
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gilded age
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Garfield gets assassinated
James A Garfield gets assassinated -
Cleveland elected president
Cleveland elected president in 1884 -
Hull House
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates open a Hull House -
Congress passes antitrust act
rule of free competition -
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imperialism
control over other country economic/politically -
Battle of horsestead
protest a wage cut -
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Progressive era
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mckinley tariff
President William Mckinley sets tax on all foreign goods -
teller amendment
claimed that the us would not establish permanent control over cuba -
Theodore Roosevelt became president
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president upon assassination of William McKinley -
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ww1
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The United States declares war on Germany
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American combat forces arrive in France.
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American women recruited to serve as bilingual telephone operators for the AEF arrive in Europe.
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United States forces are victorious in the Battle of Cantigny, the first independent American operation.
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American forces stop German attempt to cross the Marne River at Chateau-Thierry.
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American First Army attacks St. Mihiel salient.
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ww1 ends
Britain, France, the US, and other allies defeat Germany, bringing an end to World War I, billed as “the war to end all wars. -
congress passes 19th amendment
"the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the u.s or by any state on account of sex." -
prohibition begins
Prohibtion made alcohol more dangerous to consume. Organized crime increased and corruption of police and public officials occurred. -
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roaring 20s
art, society and culture were rapidly improving and 'Roaring' -
Scopes Trial
A young biology teacher named John Scopes challenged the state's ban on teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. William Jennings Bryan argued against Scopes saying evolution cannot be taught because it is not in the Bible. It highlighted the controversy between Modernity vs. Tradition. -
kkk march washington dc
Ku Klux Klan known as the KKK preached Americanism based on racism, anti- Catholicism, anti- Communism, nativism, and anti-Semitism. At it’s peak in the 1920 approximately 4 million people were members of the KKK. The march on Washington demonstrated the public acceptance of the KKK and it’s views.
Ku Klux Klan members march to show support for the KKK. -
Herbert Hoover became President
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St. Valentines Day Massacre
Four men (believed to be part of Al Capone's gang) entered a warehouse claimed by opposing gang 'Moran Gang' on Valentine's Day. The newcomers opened fire on the Moran's and killed seven. The Massacre both shocked the public and symbolized gang violence. It confirmed popular images associating Chicago with mobsters, crime, and death. -
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The Great Depression
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Hoover signed smoot-Hawley tariff act
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food riots broke out
there was a shortage because of the economy -
japan invades manchuria
Essentially, this was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia. This proved to be one of the causes of World War II. -
Franklin Roosevelt launched New Deal
refers to a series of domestic programs -
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ww2
World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China -
Hitler Invades France
In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phony War. -
us plunged into war
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, starting war with the US. Sensing weakness, Hitler declares war on America 4 days later. -
us nav vs japanese navy
The U.S. Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. -
Bill of rights passed
GI Bill of Rights passed in 1944, provided money for veterans to attend college, to purchase homes, and to buy farms. The overall impact of such public policies was almost incalculable, but it certainly aided returning veterans to better themselves and to begin forming families and having children in unprecedented numbers. -
Marines land on Iwo Jima, Feb. 19, 1945.
U.S. Marines land on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. -
U.S. soldiers and Marines invade Okinawa, Japan.
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cold war
The cold war was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the soviet union and their respective allies that developed after WW II -
economy grows after ww2!
Between 1946 and the early 1960s, Levitt & Son built three residential communities (including more than 17,000 homes), finishing as many as 30 houses a day. -
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post war boom
The culture changed with economic prosperity, just as it did in the 1920s. With leisure time, modern conveniences, material goods, their own homes and decent wages, people were more able to concentrate on art, music, sports, vacations and materialism, which has been the outline of our culture since that time -
The Berlin Airlift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. the blockade was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift. The allied response was a unbelievably massive air supply- flying night and day to feed the city. -
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civil rights movement
In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many new ones, including petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, and electrical power, emerged. Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy. -
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Vietnam War
he war, considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some,[59] lasted 19 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973, and included the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975. -
Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Her defiant stance prompts a year-long Montgomery bus boycott. -
Sputnik
The Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program. It was a key Cold War event that began on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. The launch of Sputnik I and the failure of its first two Project Vanguard launch attempts rattled the American public; President Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to it as the “Sputnik Crisis”. Although Sputnik was itself harmless, its orbiting scared the people of the US -
civil rights act
Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote. -
The U-2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its intact remains and surviving pilot. -
postwar boom economic growth
Gross national product (GNP) skyrocketed to $300 billion by 1950, compared to just $200 billion in 1940. By 1960, it had topped $500 billion, firmly establishing the United States as the richest and most powerful nation in the world. -
MLK Jr. is assasinated
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969. -
Fair Housing Act
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin. -
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969, carrying Commander Neil Armstrong. -
tianamen square massacre
Chinese troops and security police stormed through Tiananmen Square, firing indiscriminately into the crowds of protesters. -
berlin wall collapses
the official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
end of soviet union and cold war ends
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post cold war
he post–Cold War era is a period of history that follows the end of the Cold War, of the period after 1991 when the USSR collapsed. -
strikes on twin towers new york
Nearly 3,000 people were killed the day when hijackers used two passenger planes as weapons to topple the twin towers of the World Trade Center and another to attack the Pentagon.