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Period: 27 BCE to 284
Imperial Era
The Roman imperial period is a term used for chronology in both historiography and archaeology of Europe. It corresponds to the expansion of political and cultural influence of the Roman Empire. The period begins with the Augustan reform, and it is taken to end variously between the late 3rd and the late 4th century. -
Boxing
a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle (and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize. Early fighting had no written rules. -
Invention of Submarines
The Irish inventor John Philip Holland built a model submarine in 1876 and a full scale one in 1878, followed by a number of unsuccessful ones. In 1896, he designed the Holland Type VI submarine. This vessel made use of internal combustion engine power on the surface and electric battery power for submerged operations. -
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George Washington
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
also known informally as "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. -
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John Adams
- second president.
- known for his extreme political independence, brilliant mind and passionate patriotism.
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Thomas Jefferson
- third president.
- founding father.
- known for his help with the declaration of independence.
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James Madison
- fourth president.
- wrote the first drafts of the U.S. Constitution.
- co-wrote the Federalist Papers and sponsored the Bill of Rights.
- established the Democrat-Republican Party with President Thomas Jefferson.
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James Monroe
- fifth president.
- Monroe Doctrine.
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Temperance Movement
he Temperance movement was a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. The goal of early leaders of the temperance movement—conservative clergy and gentlemen of means—was to win people over to the idea of temperate use of alcohol. But as the movement gained momentum, the goal shifted first to voluntary abstinence, and finally to prohibition of the manufacture and sale of ardent spirits. -
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John Quincy Adams
- sixth president.
- served as secretary of state in President James Monroe's administration.
- he negotiated the Adams-Onis Treaty, acquiring Florida for the United States.
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Andrew Jackson
- seventh president.
- national war hero after defeating the British in New Orleans during the War of 1812.
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Andrew Carnegie
a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people ever. -
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Martin Van Buren
- eighth president
- his policies were unpopular and he failed to win a second term.
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JP Morgan
an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
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John D. Rockefeller
an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history. -
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William Henry Harrison
- ninth president.
- Elected at age 67.
- he was then the oldest man to take the office.
- first U.S. president to die in office.
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John Tyler
- tenth president.
- Representing the Whig Party.
- was the first vice president to become president due the death of his predecessor (President William Henry Harrison).
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James K. Polk
- eleventh president.
- territorial expansion of the nation chiefly through the Mexican-American War.
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Zachary Taylor
- 12th president.
- national war hero for his battles in the Mexican War.
- He led the nation during its debates on slavery and Southern secession.
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Millard Fillmore
- 13th president.
- vice president under President Zachary Taylor, assuming the presidency after Taylor's death in 1850.
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Franklin Pierce
- 14th president.
- northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation.
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James Buchanan
- 15th president.
- Serving as president during the run-up to the Civil War.
- historians consider his presidency a failure.
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Abraham Lincoln
- 16th president.
- He preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.
- assassinated.
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Andrew Johnson
- 17th president.
- became president as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Ku Klux Klan
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Ulysses S. Grant
- 18th president.
- He was entrusted with command of all U.S. armies in 1864.
- relentlessly pursued the enemy during the Civil War.
- youngest president before that time.
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Farmer’s Revolt
American farmers faced a myriad of problems in the late nineteenth century. Agricultural prices steadily declined after 1870 as a result of domestic overproduction and foreign competition.The Grange Movement, 1875. The Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange, was founded in 1867 to advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States. -
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Gilded era
Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. ... It is easy to caricature the Gilded Age as an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism. -
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Rutherford B. Hayes
- 19th president
- Before becoming president, he served in distinguished legal, military and congressional posts, and was governor of Ohio.
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James A. Garfield
- 20th president.
- was assassinated after only a few months in office.
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Chester Arthur
- 21st president
- He served as vice president at the time President James Garfield was assassinated, and acceded to the presidency thereafter.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Grover Cleveland
- 22nd president
- known to be honest, independent, and opposed to corruption and the spoils system.
- only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
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Benjamin Harrison
- 23rd president.
- grandson of U.S. President William Henry Harrison.
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Adolf Hitler
a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
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Progressive Era
a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government. -
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Grover Cleveland
- 24th president.
- was known to be honest, independent, and opposed to corruption and the spoils system.
- only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
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Invention of the Radio
Guglielmo Marconi: an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter "S", telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. -
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Babe Ruth
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. -
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William McKinley
- 25th president.
- assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term.
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Amelia Earhart
an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment -
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Spanish American War
On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. -
USS Maine Explosion
the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 268 men and shocking the American populace. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
- 26th president.
- Roosevelt was governor of New York before becoming U.S. vice president.
- became the youngest man to assume the U.S. presidency after President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901.
- He won a second term in 1904.
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Electric home goods invented
In the early 1900s, electric and gas appliances included washing machines, water heaters, refrigerators and sewing machines. The invention of Earl Richardson's small electric clothes iron in 1903 gave a small initial boost to the home appliance industry. -
Automobile Industry
Henry Ford began building cars in 1896 and started his own company in 1903. The Ford Motor Company improved mass-production with the first conveyor belt-based assembly line in 1913, producing the Model T (which had been introduced in 1908). -
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Suffrage Movement
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and some Australian colonies and western U.S. states in the late 19th century. -
Invention of Airplanes
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. The Wrights used this stopwatch to time the Kitty Hawk flights. -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
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William Howard Taft
- 27th president.
- appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court, becoming the only person to have served as both a U.S. chief justice and president.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers. ... The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers. -
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Woodrow Wilson
- 28th president.
- led America through World War I and crafted the Versailles Treaty's "Fourteen Points," the last of which was creating a League of Nations to ensure world peace.
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16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. -
17th Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
Trench Warfare
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. -
Invention of Machine gun
Maxim's gun was widely adopted and derivative designs were used on all sides during the First World War. The design required fewer crew and was lighter and more usable than the Nordenfelt and Gatling guns. -
Allied Powers
The Allies of World War I, or Entente Powers, were the countries that opposed the Central Powers in the First World War. The members of the original Triple Entente of 1907 were the French Republic, the British Empire and the Russian Empire. -
Central Powers
World War One is a conflict between the Central Powers and the Allies. The Central Powers (red) consist of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. -
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World War I
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe. -
Invention of Poison gas
German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line. -
Invention of Tanks
The history of the tank began in World War I, when armored all-terrain fighting vehicles were first deployed as a response to the problems of trench warfare, ushering in a new era of mechanized warfare. Though initially crude and unreliable, tanks eventually became a mainstay of ground armies. -
Communism
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. -
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Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and elsewhere. ... The Jazz Age is often referred to in conjunction with the Roaring Twenties. -
Paris Peace Conference
Also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World War I, to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. -
18th Amendment
effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. -
Treaty of Versailles
the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. -
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Roaring 20s
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Hollywood’s Golden Age
(Grapes of Wrath, Gone with the Wind, ect) Revolutions in Communication. Golden Age of Hollywood. Golden Age of Hollywood. By the 1930s, Hollywood was one of the most visible businesses in America, and most people were attending films at least once a week. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. meant to bring peace to the world. -
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Nazi Party
Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practiced the ideology of Nazism -
19th Amendment
Prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
Motels
In 1954 a 60-room motor hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona, opened as the first Ramada (Spanish for "a shaded resting place"). The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel, established in 1957 near Washington, D.C. as a member of Quality Courts, became the first Marriott in 1959, expanding from motel to hotel in 1962. -
Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. -
Air Commerce Act
Congress passed the Air Commerce Act, placing in federal hands responsibility for fostering air commerce, establishing new airways, improving aids to navigation, and making and enforcing flight safety rules. -
First solo non-stop Trans-Atlantic flight
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
Stock Market Crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929, and was the most devastating stock market crash in history. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. -
Baseball as National Pastime
Proof that baseball had become a national pastime was clearly visible with the building of several of the great ballparks, including Wrigley Field in Chicago and Fenway Park in Boston during this time. In the 1930s, baseball playing on all levels continued to expand. -
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought -
Hoovervilles
a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. -
Bonus Army
was the popular name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 -
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Holocaust
Around 6 million Jews; using broadest definition, 17 million victims overall. the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. -
Hitler begins the Nazi Party
Although Hitler lost the presidential election of 1932, he achieved his goals when he was appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933. On February 27, Hindenburg paved the way to dictatorship and war by issuing the Reichstag Fire Decree which nullified civil liberties. -
Fireside Chats
term used to describe a series of 28 evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. -
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Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. A small horse, Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression. -
Concentration Camps built
the original function of the concentration camps was as detention sites for the incarceration of political enemies. the SS expanded the functions of the camps. Despite the need for forced labor, the SS authorities continued to deliberately undernourished and mistreat prisoners, incarcerated in the concentration camps. Prisoners were used ruthlessly and without regard to safety at forced labor, resulting in high mortality rates. -
People moved to Ghettos
The SA (Sturmabteilung/ StormTroopers), the SS(Schutzstaffel/ the elite guard of the Nazi party), and the police organized numerous detention camps to incarcerate real and perceived political opponents of Nazi policy. -
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War Admiral
War Admiral was an American thoroughbred racehorse, best known as the fourth winner of the American Triple Crown and Horse of the Year in 1937, and rival of Seabiscuit in the 'Match Race of the Century' in 1938. -
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. The New Deal was a group of U.S. government programs of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the programs to help the country recover from the economic problems of the Great Depression -
Monopoly
Monopoly is a board game where players roll two six-sided dice to move around the game-board buying and trading properties, and develop them with houses and hotels. -
Nuremberg Laws
were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." -
Child Labor Laws written
The most sweeping federal law that restricts the employment and abuse of child workers is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Child labor provisions under FLSA are designed to protect the educational opportunities of youth and prohibit their employment in jobs that are detrimental to their health and safety. -
Kristallnacht
kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and November program, was a program against Jews throughout Nazi Germany. -
Wizard of Oz
American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Widely considered to be one of the greatest films in cinema history, it is the best-known and most commercially successful adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. -
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World War II
Precursor events leading up to World War II included:Japanese militarism and invasions of China in the 1930s. the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Hitler and his Nazi Party and its aggressive foreign policy starting in 1936. Major Events of World War II. When Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany. After conquering Poland, Germany attacked France. France fell in June 1940, and soon the Nazis overran most of the rest of Europe and North Africa. -
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Cold War--Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which led many to fear that immigrants, particularly from Russia, southern Europe, and eastern Europe, intended to overthrow the United States government; The end of World War I, which caused production needs to decline and unemployment to rise. -
Killing centers
German SS and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either with poison gas or by shooting.
The first killing center was Chelmno, in the Warthegau (part of Poland annexed to Germany) in December 1941. Mostly Jews, but also Roma (Gypsies), were gassed in mobile gas vans. In the Operation Reinhard killing centers, the SS killed approximately 1,526,500 Jews between March 1942 and November 1943. systematic killings -
Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States with this name. -
Nuremberg trials
Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
Alaska joins the Union
President Eisenhower signs a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th and largest state. The European discovery of Alaska came in 1741, when a Russian expedition led by Danish navigator Vitus Bering sighted the Alaskan mainland. -
Hawaii joins the Union
remains the most recent state to join the United States. Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states of the USA only after world war two. ... Hawaii was a kingdom until 1893 and became a republic in 1894. It then ceded itself to the USA in 1898 and became a state in 1959.