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The 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote on Feb.3, 1870, but it didn’t really go into effect until around 100 years later. -
The completion of the Panama Canal
The idea of building a canal across Central America was suggested again by German scientist Alexander von Humboldt, In 1819, the Spanish government authorized the construction of a canal and the creation of a company to build .The project stalled for some time, but a number of surveys were carried out between 1850 and 1875. The engineering congress estimated the cost of the project at $214,000,000; on February 14, 1880 March 1 to $120,000,000. The engineering congress estimated seven or eight ye -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
him and his wife were assassinated in their motorcade.By the following week Germany, Russia, France, Belgium, Montenegro and Great Britain had all been drawn into the conflict -
U.S. entry into WWI
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war. On April 4, 1917, the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days -
Executive order 9066
Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities as defined in Section 4, Act of April 20, 1918 -
Treaty of Versailles
this was put in place to make it so veitnam couldnt have an army
and if they did it could only be a small one to protect them. -
The 19th Amendment
In 1920 all the women got the right to vote. It took a long time to get it passed and it was very difficult to get it passed because many people thought huge change to the Constitution. It took lots of generations of women protesting, disobeying the law, and speaking up to congress to achieve this change to the constitution. Some older supporters lived to see the final change, but not too many. -
Hitler invades Poland
On Dec. 1, 1939 World War II began. German troops lead by Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. The came over land and from the air. Hitler’s goal was to get the land back that was taken from him in the treaty of Versailles and rule Poland. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
the bombing killed more than 2,300 U.S. soders. destrored 160 planes. so we went into war with them. -
U.S. drops first Atomic bomb in Japan
in 1945 we drop this bomb on japan to end wwII so they would serender.but they never did. -
U.S. drops second Atomic bomb in Japan
and then they drop this one to to make them sorender. -
First U.S. military advisors were sent into Vietnam
The first time advisors were sent to Vietnam was in September, 1950 when the French were in control of Vietanm and some of the Veitanmise called the Viet Minh forces were trying to take their country back. The French lost because the waited to long to cooperate with the U.S. advisors. -
U.N. declares victory in the Persian Gulf War
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait because he believed that Kuwait was part of Iraq. Kuwait was drilling oil. Kuwait thought it was theirs. Iraq thought it was not because Kuwait was believe to be part of Iraq. Kuwait considered itself an independent nation and so did some other countries. the united nations used force to remove Iraq from Kuwait. -
March on Washington
The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations, under the theme "jobs, and freedom". Estimates of the number of participants varied from 200,000 to 300,000; it is widely accepted that approximately 250,000 people participated in the march. Observers estimated that 75–80% of the marchers were black -
JFK assassinated
he was the 35th president and was assassinated in 1963.his assassination happend in dallas texas -
First combat troops sent to Vietnam
in 1965 lindon b. johnson sent 3,500 U.S. Marines to war in vietnam. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
MLK was assassinated in 1968. he was a black rights activist and leader. -
U.S. supports Afghanistan from invasion of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)
In the late 1970”, The Soviet Union came into Afghanistan and tried to take over by conditions worse for poor and the tribal peoples. The people got mad and started resist and fight back. Eventually, in 1980, the united States step in to help. The United States’ donation of anti-aircraft missiles to the afghan fighter’s witch caused major losses to the Soviets and United States also made it clear that they were mad to the Soviet occupation by boycotting the Olympics in Moscow in 1980. -
Vietnam War ends
South Vietnamese and Communists North Vietnam launched an offensive in early 1975. -
U.N. resolution 678
this was to get iraq to get rid of their army and pull out of the countrys they had invated. we gave iraq one last chance to implament resolution 660. Iraq didnt withdraw by the deadline.
