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Appomattox
On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his approximately 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending the American Civil War (1861-65). -
The Reconstruction
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) was hard. It caused many outrages in the North. -
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. IT began in the late 1700's. There is no exact date time for the Industial Revolution. -
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Creation of the Panama Canal
The Franch started construction on January 20,1882. The first ship sailed through it on September 26,1913 -
Acquistion of Hawaii
America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific. It resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. -
The Spanish American War
The Spanish-American War was a war between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. By the Treaty of Paris (signed Dec. 10, 1898), Spain gve all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States. The Spanish-American War was an important turning point in the history of both sides. -
World War I
June 28th-Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo which started World War I. From July 28 to August 4 country after country declared war on each other. Finally The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Germans on June 28 1918 which ended the war. -
Prohibition/Roaring 20's
The 1920s were an age of social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this growth of conomy swept many Americans into a good but foreign conumer society. -
The Great Depression and New Deal
The Great Depression in the United States began on October 29, 1929, a day known as "Black Tuesday," when the American stock market crashed, plunging the country into its most severe economic downturn yet. Rich People lost their shirts; banks went out; the nation’s money supply disapeared; and companies went bankrupt and began to fire their workers. Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of programs, known collectively as the New Deal which changed the country forever. -
World War II
America is involved in World War II when the Japenese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941 and when Germany attacked Poland on September 1 1939. -
Pearl Harbor
At 7:55 A.M. on December 7, 1941 Japenese fighter planes bombed Pearl Harbor. It killed 2,500 people and wounded 1,000. -
The Cold War
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been aware of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tryanny rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets resented the Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community. -
Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army across 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. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. Some thought this war would escalate
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed war that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war began in 1954, after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two global superpowers: the United States and Russia. 3 million people were killed in the war. -
The Gulf War
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait in early August 1990. Alarmed by these actions, Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other nations to intervene. Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991, and the Persian Gulf War began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm. It lasted 42 days. -
September 11,2001
19 terroists associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Often referred to as 9/11, the attacks resulted in extensive death and desttruction. Over 3,000 people died. -
Operation Enduring Freedom
Lasted from October 7th 2001 to about December 31 2003. This operation was a response to the attack on September 11, 2001 on America. -
Invasion of Iraq
This invasion on Iraq started the Iraq War. It was done to disarm weapons of mass destruction and free civilians.
