U.S. History

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  • John D. Rockefeller

    Standard Oil Trust; Andrew Carnegie-Steel
  • Populist Party

    formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    'Separate but Equal' is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education
  • Treaty of Paris

    ends the Spanish-American War
  • President McKinley assassinated

    Teddy Roosevelt now 26th president
  • Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection

    set food quality standards
  • Panama Canal

    connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (opens in 1914)
  • Muckraker

    writers who expose big business corruption
  • Henry Ford

    introduces the Model T car, assembly lines introduced
  • 16th Amendment

    establishment of income tax, 17th Amend.- direct election of senators
  • World War 1

    begins in Europe
  • German U-Boat sinks British passenger liner Lusitania

    Americans killed on board
  • Germany continues unrestricted submarine warfare

    gets warning from U.S.
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against U.S.; US. Enters WWI
  • Selective Service Act

    establishes the draft
  • Fourteen Points

    by Woodrow Wilson, 14th pt most important - calls for League of Nations
  • Treaty of Versailles

    ends WWI; calls for heavy reparations on Germany, disarmament, and creation of League of Nations; U.S. Senate rejects it
  • 18th Amendment

    outlaws purchase, sale, and transport of alcohol
  • 19th Amendment

    women's suffrage (right to vote)
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    exposes massive corruption in Harding Administration
  • Charles Lindbergh

    complete world's first solo flight across Atlantic - seen as a hero
  • Bonus Army (WWI vets)

    march on Washington demanding compensation - forced out
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President

  • U.S. unemployment rate reaches 25%, FDR claims Bank Holiday to fix banks

  • Huey Long

    criticizes FDR, "Share Our Wealth" proposes large tax burden on wealthy
  • Wagner Act

    supports union rights, protects collective bargaining
  • Social Security Act

    establishes funds for unemployment and elderly
  • Lend-Lease-Act

    provides U.S. loan aid to Britain, USSR & allied powers
  • FDR elected for unprecedented 3rd Term

  • Atlantic Charter

    agreement b/n U.S President FDR and Britain Prime Minister Churchill
  • Propaganda

    motivate U.S. citizens to support war efforts
  • Battle of Midway

    U.S. defeats Japan, seen as turning point in the war in the Pacific
  • Manhattan Project

    creation of the Atomic Bomb
  • Battle of the Bulge

    begins to break down Axis position on western front
  • Germany surrenders on V-E-DAY (victory in Europe day)

  • United Nations created with 51 founding nations

  • Nuremberg Trials

    prosecute Nazi war criminals
  • FDR dies, Harry Truman becomes President; Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug 9) - Japan surrenders

  • Iron Curtain

    describes division of Communist Eastern Europe from Western Europe
  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. intent to fight Communism by helping free nations resist it.
  • Berlin Blockade

    USSR blocks all aid into West Berlin; Berlin Airlift-U.S. drops food and supplies by air to West Berlin
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson; says separate but equal is unconstitutional
  • Containment

    (Truman) must stop spread of all communism; "Domino Theory" (Eisenhower) - fears that Indochina must not go communist or it will spread all over the world
  • Rosa Parks

    arrested for not giving up seat on bus to whites; Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • 1st televised Presidential debate

    JFK vs. Nixon (JFK wins); JFK president 1960
  • Berlin Wall

    divides East and West Berlin (East was communist)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    standoff b/n U.S. and USSR after Soviets placed missiles in Cuba pointed at the United States; no fighting incurs
  • I have a dream

    speech given by MLK - speech for civil rights
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    bans literacy tests for voting

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