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Grants women the right to vote, the movement was towards women’s suffrage, women’s rights and the right to vote, this took decades of protests and finally passed by congress on June 4, 1919, but ratified in August 18, 1920. -
Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrant anarchists who murdered a guard and a paymaster during an armed robbery of the slater and Morrill Shoe Company. July 14, 1921, they were convicted of 1st degree murder. -
A book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in the Jazz Age and basically about how the American dream is unattainable. It was actually a failure and sold less than 20,000 copies, but today its a Great American Novel. -
State of Tennessee V. John Thomas Scopes involves a high school teacher was accused of violating the Butler Act, which you couldn’t teach human evolution. He was found guilty and fined $100, but it was overturned on a technicality. -
Due to Anti-radical sentiment the Sacco and Vanzetti trial was regarded as unlawful, authorities had failed to come up with evidence, during the next years protest were held for their release, the Supreme Court refused to change the verdict and they were executed. -
Known as the Great Crash, was a major American Stock Market crash. This happened due to share prices on the New York Stock exchange collapsed. Also known as Black Thursday, largest sell off of shares in US History. -
This Act was to raise import tariffs to protect American businesses and farmers, during the Great Depression. The act eventually backfired, making the taxes on American goods to expensive which restricted trade and contributed to the crisis. -
Known as the slogan “Happy days are Here again” - Franklin D. Roosevelt a Democratic candidate won the presidential election assuming the role in the depth of the Great Depression. -
As part of FDR’s famous New Deal, the Securities Act of 1933 was passed, this act was passed to protect investors after the stock market crash of 1929. It was to ensure more transparency in financial statements and establish against misrepresentation. -
Airship accident that happened in Manchester, New Jersey. It caught fire and was destroyed when it was trying to land, there were 36 deaths, there were 97 total on board. It was filled with Hydrogen instead of Helium, which was the cause of the explosion. -
Hitler invades Poland, two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany which was the beginning and start of WWII. -
The battle that was won by the Royal Air Force fighter command, against Germany. Both sides suffered a lot of casualties but Britain weakened Germany and Hitler called off his planned invasion. -
This was a surprise military attack by the Japanese on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. This was a preventative action to keep the US from interfering with its planned Military actions in Southeast Asia. This was what led the US to enter into WWII. -
Anne Frank and family escape persecution from the Nazi’s by going into hiding on July 6, 1942. They hid in an attic apartment in Prinsengracht, Amsterdam. Anne hid for 761 days until they were found and arrested in 1944. -
The Electronic Numercial Integrator And Computer was the 1st computer built to run at electronic speed without being slowed by mechanical parts. Mainly used by the Army to calculate wartime ballistic tables. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. He did this in an underground bunker in Berlin. -
Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi also known as the great soul, took the lead on spearheading the campaign for independence from Britain. One of the Fanatics named Nathuram Godse armed with a gun, emerged from the crowd, bowed to him and shot him 3 times. -
This was a war between North Korea, which military support from China and the Soviet Union and South Korea back by the United Nations. North Korea invaded South Korea hoping to reunite the 2 nations as a single country under communist control. -
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won the 34th presidential election by a landslide again Democrat Adlai Stevenson. He won the popular vote by 15 points and won all states outside the south. -
The war was fought between North and South Vietnam and took place in 1955 to 1975. The causes were the spread of communism during the Cold War era, American Containment and European imperialism in Vietnam. -
Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states of the Unites States of America after World War II. The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 Million in 1867, it took a long time to make the transition. Hawaii was a kingdom and then became a republic. -
Castro was a Cuban revolutionary leader of Cuba. He was a Marxist-Leninist and Nationalist, he was the first secretary of the communist party. He forced Fulgencio Batista ouf of power on January 1, 1959 and became the Prime Minister.
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