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The 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment overturned the preexisting statute prohibiting African-American citizens of the United States from suffrage - -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia -
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U.S. entry into WWI
Reich Foreign Secretary Zimmermann's telegram to Mexico urging her entry into war against the United States is discovered and translated by the British. Bringing U.S. into the conflict because of allies -
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The 19th Amendment
The womans right to vote was granted. The women went throught alot to get this right they got arrested and hurt to get this right they also had a perade and got beat and hurt from people who didnt believe in this right. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
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Hitler invades Poland
Hitler started to invaid poland and that was only one of the many of states and countries he wanted to invaid. He also attacked the U.S.S.R towards the end. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. -
Executive order 9066
Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas " -
U.S. drops first Atomic bomb in Japan
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people -
U.S. drops second Atomic bomb in Japan
U.S. Drops Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. National ArchivesA photograph of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, taken from one of the B-29 Superfortresses used in the attack -
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First U.S. military advisors were sent into Vietnam
We sent the military advisor there for the communist of goverment. U.S. sent in alot of troops this war was very lon. are technology started to grow and we sent in tanks and other war weapons. -
March on Washington
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd near the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963 -
John F. Kennedy assassinated
JFK was assassinated in Texas he was ridding in a car and Bullets struck the president's neck and head and he slumped over toward Mrs. Kennedy. The governor was also hit in the chest. -
First combat troops sent to Vietnam
U.S. ground troops to stave off the defeat of the South Vietnamese Army. At first, Army combat units played a defensive role, protecting Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, and other important cities and bases -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King’s assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, -
Vietnam War ends
United States ended its military involvement in Vietnam. Although the war would continue another two years, the South Vietnamese would no longer receive American assistance. -
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U.S. supports Afghanistan from invasion of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R
This war lasted nine years and it all started U.S. wanted to invade the Soviet Union and U.S. started to withdrawl soliders from the war. -
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U.N. declares victory in the Persian Gulf War
This was a very short war and we went to Iraq and killed many people and defeated them. -
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U.N. begins bombing against Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
The initial conflict to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait began with an aerial and naval bombardment on 17 January 1991, continuing for five weeks. This was followed by a ground assault on 24 February. This was a decisive victory for the Coalition forces, who liberated Kuwait and advanced into Iraqi territory -
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U.N. resolution 678
The Council, recognising its responsibility to uphold international peace and security, offered Iraq one final chance to implement Resolution 660 (1990) which demanded that Iraq withdraw its forces unconditionally from Kuwait to the positions in which they were located on 1 August 1990, the day before the invasion of Kuwait.