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President Mckinley assassinated
The result of this assassination was that Teddy Roosevelt became the 26th President -
Muckrakers
Writers who expose big business corruption -
Pure Food and Drug Act
set food quality standards -
Panama Canal
Connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (opens in 1914) -
Henry Ford introduces the Model T
Assembly line was built -
16th Amendment and 17th Amendment
Establishment of income tax
Direct election of senators -
World War 1 begins in Europe
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which kicked off the war -
German U-Boat sinks British passenger liner Lusitania Sunk
Americans were killed that were on board -
Germany continues unrestricted submarine warfare
U.S. warns them to stop -
Zimmerman Telegram
Intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against U.S
U.S joins war -
Selective Service Act
Establishes the Draft -
Fourteen Points By Woodrow Wilson
14th pt most important- Calls for The League of Nations -
18th Amendment
Outlaws purchase, sale, and transport of alcohol -
Treaty of Versailles
Ends WW1; calls for heavy reparations on Germany, disarmament, and the creation of the League of Nations; U.S. Senate rejects it -
19th Amendment
Women's suffrage(right to vote -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Exposes massive corruption in Harding Administration -
Charles Lindbergh
Completes world's first solo flight across Atlantic- seen as a hero -
Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday- Launches Great Depression -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected President
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Bonus Army(wwi vets)
March on Washington demanding compensation- forced out -
U.S. unemployment rate reaches 25%
FDR claims Bank Holiday to fix banks -
21st Amendment
Repeals 18th amendment (prohibition) -
Wagner Act
supports union rights,protects collective bargaining -
Social Security Act
Establishes funds for unemployed and elderly -
World II
Germany invades Poland
U.S. attempts isolationism from war in Europe
December 7, 1941- Japan bombs Pearl Harbor-U.S. enters the War
Battle of Stalingrad-seen as war's turning point for allied victory -
FDR elected for unprecedented 3rd Term
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Battle of Midway
U.S. Defeats japan, Seen as turning point of the war -
Manhattan Project
Creation of the first Atomic Bomb -
FDR dies
Harry Truman becomes president
Adolf Hitler commits suicide -
U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan Surrenders -
Germany surrenders on V-E DAY
Victory in Europe -
United Nations
created with 51 founding nations -
Iron Curtain
Describes division of communist eastern europe from western europe -
Marshal Plan
postwar economic recovery to help Western europe; largest relief aid given by U.S. in U.S. history -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. intent to fight Communism by helping free nations resist it. -
Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift
USSR blocks all aid into West Berlin;- U.S. drops food and supplies by air to West Berlin -
Harry Truman Desegregates the military
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Korean War begins
U.S. aids south korea against north korea; Peace Treaty in 1953