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The first significant U.S. immigration law restricting a specific ethnic group. This prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country and denied Chinese immigrants the right to citizenship -
Divided Native American lands into individual allotments, aiming to assimilate Indigenous people but resulting in loss of tribal land. -
The U.S. defeated Spain, acquiring territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. -
On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, made history with the first successful, controlled, and sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air machine, the Wright Flyer. -
The luxury ocean liner struck an iceberg and sank, killing over 1,500 passengers and crew. -
World War I, also known as the Great War, was a global war that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It was fought between the Central Powers and the Allied Powers . The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914 was the immediate cause of the war -
The start of the Great Depression, leading to global economic turmoil. -
The Holocaust was the captivity and murder of around six million Jewish people all conducted by a group called the Nazi’s and was ran by Adolf Hitler. Jewish people were sent to concentration camps and many were murdered. -
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies -
A Supreme Court ruling that ended racial segregation in public schools. -
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. -
A landmark U.S. law that outlawed segregation and discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
The first moon landing, achieved by the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969, saw Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the lunar surface, a feat famously described by Armstrong as "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". -
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification. Marked the beginning of the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. -
On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, flying two into the World Trade Center in New York City, one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the fourth crashing in Pennsylvania after passengers intervened. -
The U.S. led a military invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, sparking long-term conflict. -
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global outbreak of coronavirus. -
A major European conflict following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leading to international sanctions and global tensions.