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Roosevelt Presidential Term
In The Election of 1904, Theodore Roosevelt is elected President -
Panama Canal
A process that took approx 10 years to be finished. The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. -
William Howard Taft Presidential Term
Tafft won becuase he was good friend and Secretary of War under Roosevelt. Tafft was Roosevelt's successor -
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Term
Presidential campaign involving Taft, T. Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote, enabling Wilson to win -
The Sixteenth Ammendment
Gave Congress the power to impose an income tax. -
The Seventeenth Amendment
Gave voters the right to directly vote for their senator instead of doing so through the state legislatures. -
World War I
European war in which an alliance including Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States defeated the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria -
the Nineteenth Ammendment
he Ammendment to the constitution which gives Women the full right to vote -
The Twentieth Ammendment
Outlined the rules for the office of the presidency and changed the inauguration date -
World War II
war fought in Europe, Africa and Asia between tGreat Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States against the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan. -
The Cold War
A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union -
The Civil Rights Movement
A social movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, in which people organized to demand equal rights for African Americans and other minorities. People worked together to change unfair laws. They gave speeches, marched in the streets, and participated in boycotts Lasted for 20 years -
John F. Kennedy Assasination
On 22nd November, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas. -
The End of Vietnam War
North Vietnamese troops take Saigon and the country is reunited under communism. The last US troops had left two years before. -
The Gulf War
A dispute over control of the waterway between Iraq and Iran broke out into open fighting in 1980 and continued until 1988, when they accepted a UN cease-fire resolution -
Bill Clinton Presidential Term
Bill Clinton won over George H.W. Bush -
George W Bush Presidential Term
Bush v. Gore; Bush won although Gore won popular vote; controversy over the final vote count in Florida; settled by Supreme Court decision in favor of Bush
