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Industrial Revolution
The moment in American history when people started making alot of stuff from machines, helped win many wars and made alot of time changeing inventions -
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Reconstruction Era
After the Civil War when slavery was abololished. Many African-Americans were killed by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and the White League -
Appomatox
Confederate Army surrenders to Union. Civil War over -
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Era of Imperialsm
"Manifest Destiny" is the belief that the Americans would go West and take all of the land in America. They got land through Wars, Purchases, began with the Louisiana Purchase and ended after the Cold War -
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Spanish-American War
A three month fight between the U.S. and Spain over many islands including Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines. The War was encouraged by Americans because of "Yellow Journalism" which pretty much blamed everything on Spain -
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World War I
"The Great War" fought between the Triple Entente which is France, Britian, and Russia and the Central Powers which is Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman-Empire -
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Prohibition/ Roaring 20's
When America was in a very good economic point before the great depression, nicknamed the "Jazz Age" because of the cultures of jazz in America. Prohibition banned alchohol which started many gangs and gangsters -
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The Great Depression/ The New Deal
The time when America hot its lowest economic point. Many people lost everything and killed themselves. Then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed the New Deal which tried to help the economy by creating government jobs like the Hoover Dam -
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World War 2
A war fought between the allies which is the Soviet Union Great Britian, France and China and the Axis Powers which is Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy -
Pearl Harbor Attack
The Japanese Navy took American forces by suprise at Pearl Harbor in Hawii killing about 2,000 American Soldiers and destroying many ships and planes -
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Korean War
War between North and South Korea. Set the Boundary for the Northern and Southern parts of Korea -
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Vietnam War
War between Vietnam and Viet Cong the war lasted about 20 years and about 3 million are killed -
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The Gulf War
fought between Iraq and Kuwait with the help of the U.S. Saddam Hussein (Iraq's President) Bombed Kuwaits oil fields because Iraq couldnt use them and that basicly started the Gulf War -
September 11, 2001
A terrorist group Al-Qaeda led by Osama Bin Ladin hijacked several planes and crashed the into the World Trade Center and the Pentegon killing about 2,000 people -
Global War on Terrorism Begins
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Orginization) and other middle eastern countries go to war with terrorist groups Al-Qaeda and Taliban. -
Operation Enduring Freedom (Ongoing)
America Nato Afghanistan Europe and Russia fight Al-Qaeda and Taliban to get rid of terrorism -
Invasion of Iraq
Americans invade iraq in an attemp to stop terrorism -
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Operation Iraqi Freedom
U.S and NATO with Iraq fight the Ba'athist Iraqians to help Iraq get freedom
