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Wasn't on the ballet in nine southern states, Lincoln earns enough electoral votes to beat all other opponents.
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South carolina officially secedes from the union, becoming the first state to do so.
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Mississippi secedes from the union.
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Lincoln issues the second emancipation proclamation, emphasized as a war measure. Which frees all slaves in states or parts of states that were still in rebellion against the U.S.
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Lincoln issues a proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction
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Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president
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Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected president of the United States.
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John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated in Ohio.
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President Ulysses S. Grant is reelected to a second term as president of the United States
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The United Kingdom announces that the North Sea is a military area, effectively creating a blockade of goods into Germany.
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Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain, essentially effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets.
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The United States declares war on Germany.
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Germany and the Allies sign an armistice to end the fighting in World War I.
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Congress ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States.
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The Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to vote.
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Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated into office as 32nd President of the United States
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a second term as president
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President Roosevelt died. He was succeeded by President Truman.
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Victory in Europe was celebrated
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The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war
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The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild a war-devastated region, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again.
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In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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China officially diplomatically recognizes Vietnam as independent from France.
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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, is murdered for whistling at a white woman.
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In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat for a white man, causing a bus boycott by the Black community.
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Student volunteers called “freedom riders” begin testing state laws prohibiting segregation on buses and railways stations
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The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam.
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The last U.S. troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
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South Vietnam surrenders to the communists
