U.S History 2

Federal Aid road act

Oct 19, 1921

Federal Aid road act funds a national highway system.

winter ollympics

Oct 19, 1924

first winter olympics

The scopes trial

Oct 19, 1925

john scopes is on trial for teaching the theory of evolution.

route 66

Oct 19, 1926

Route 66 is establised, the longest highway of the time.

Babe Ruth

Oct 19, 1927

Babe Ruth makes homerum record for baseball.

bubble gum

Oct 19, 1928

Bubble gum is invented

Kellogg-Briand Treaty

Oct 19, 1928

Kellogg-Briand Treaty Outlaws War

depression

Oct 19, 1929

the great depresion hits.

stocks

Oct 19, 1929

the stock market crashes and the economy plummits.

St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Oct 19, 1929

allcupone's men massacre a lot of people on valentines day which is known as St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

the strugle with sivilwrites

Mar 18, 1946

Many African Americans emerged from World War II intent on rejecting second-class citizenship once and for all. The Civil Rights Movement took shape in the years that followed. The military was desegregated. Freedom rides, bus boycotts, and strikes challenged Jim Crow laws. In North Carolina, a Senate campaign turned ugly over the issue of race, and in Robeson County, the Lumbee challenged the Ku Klux Klan — and won. In this chapter we’ll examine the origins of the Civil Rights Movement and anal

President Harry S. Truman to Congress [March 12, 1947] "The Truman Doctrine"

Mar 12, 1947

The gravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress. The foreign policy...

Marshall's Statement To The Senate [1947]

Mar 18, 1947

I need not tell you gentlemen that the world situation is very serious. That must be apparent to all intelligent people. I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. Furthermore, the people of this country...

Taft-Hartley Act [1947]

Mar 18, 1947

The National Labor Relations Board (hereinafter called the 'Board') created by this Act prior to its amendment by the Labor Management Relations Act 1947, is hereby continued as an agency of the United States...

Presidential Inaugural Address of President Harry Truman [January 20, 1949]

Mar 18, 1949

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Chief Justice, and fellow citizens, I accept with humility the honor which the American people have conferred upon me. I accept it with a deep...

McCarran Internal Security Act [1950]

Mar 18, 1950

To protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by...

Inaugural Address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower [January 20, 1953]

Jan 20, 1953

MY friends, before I begin the expression of those thoughts that I deem appropriate to this moment, would you permit me the privilege of uttering a little private prayer of my own. And I ask that you bow your heads...

Civil Rights Act Of [1957]

Mar 18, 1957

There is created in the executive branch of the Government a Commission on Civil Rights (hereinafter called the "commission"). (b) The commission shall be composed of six members who shall be appointed by the President by and with the...

President Eisenhower's Speech to the American People on Little Rock [September 24, 1957]

Sep 24, 1957

Good Evening, My Fellow Citizens: For a few minutes this evening I want to speak to you about the serious situation that has arisen in Little Rock. To make this...

President Eisenhower on U.S. Troops To Lebanon [1958]

Mar 18, 1958

Yesterday morning, I received from President Chamoun of Lebanon an urgent plea that some United States forces be stationed Lebanon to help maintain security and to evidencence the concern of the United States for the integrity and independence of Lebanon. President Chamoun's appeal...