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Appomattox
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1865-2003
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The Reconstruction
President Abraham Lincoln sets the plans for the Reconstuction during a speech in Louisiana. He proposed that some blacks deserved the right to vote. He was assaissinated three days later. -
Industrial Revolutioin
On this date the first Transcontinental Railroad was completed, It connected two railways, The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. -
The Panama Canal Begins
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Spanish American War
America went to war against Spain to free Cuba from Spanish domination. After ousting Spain from Cuba, the United States seized Puerto Rico. And subsequently it annexed the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, and Wake Island, followed by Hawaii. -
Hawaii is added
Hawaii was added because the Hawaiian citizens concidered themselves as American. Queen Liliuokalani was then over thrown by American sugar planter, during the Spanish-American War. In July, Hawaii is added -
The U.S. joins the WWI
After several "Mistaken" U.S. boats were sunken by German U boats. President Wilson went to Congress. Both houses of Congress agreed to declare war. On 06 April 1917 the U.S offically joined the WWI -
Battle of Somme
The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War. Fought between July 1 and November 1, 1918 near the Somme River in France, it was also one of the bloodiest military battles in history. On the first day alone, the British suffered more than 57,000 casualties, and by the end of the campaign the Allies and Central Powers would lose more than 1,500,000 men -
WWI Ends
The First World War end from the Treaty of Versailles. The Versailles Treaty required Germany to acknowledge its guilt in causing the war, and to pay hefty economic reparations in compensation for the losses and damages of the Allies. -
Prohibition 18th Admendment
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the alcoholis ratified on this day and becomes the law of the land. By the late 19th century, these groups had become a powerful political force, campaigning on the state level and calling for total national abstinence. In December 1917, the 18th Amendment, also known as the Prohibition Amendment, was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II. From this pointon U.S. was offically in WWII -
D-Day
Within three months, the northern part of France would be freed and the invasion force would be preparing to enter Germany, where they would meet up with Soviet forces moving in from the east. The Allies knew that a successful invasion of the continent was central to winning the war. -
Cold War
The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. The Cold War was to dominate international affairs for decades and many major crises occurred - the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall being just some. For many, the growth in weapons of mass destruction was the most worrying issue -
Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. After some early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and casualties mounted with nothing to show for them. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States (with the aid of the South Vietnamese) attempting to prevent the spread of communism. Engaged in a war that many viewed as having no way to win, U.S. leaders lost the American public's support for the war. Since the end of the war, the Vietnam War has become a benchmark for what not to do in all future U.S. foreign conflicts. -
Gulf War
On July 17, 1990, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates of flooding the world oil market. On August 2, 1990, Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied Kuwait. -
911
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectiv -
Operation Enduring Freedom
In response to the attacks of 11 September, the early combat operations that took place on 7 October 2001 to include a mix of strikes from land-based B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress bombers, carrier-based F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet fighters, and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from both U.S. and British ships and submarines signaled the start of Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan. -
Invasion of Iraq
