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the oil and steel industry start booming with john d Rockefeller taking the oil industry and dander carnage with steel. Chester a aruther was elected as the 21st president -
Dawes Severalty Act-denies tribal rights, advances forced assimilation, opens lands to whites Grover Cleveland was elected as the 22nd president and later the 24th -
benjamin harris was elected president and the Wounded Knee - Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians happend -
Sherman Antitrust Act-outlaws monopolies, price-fixing, other trade restraints -
Populist Party - formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government -
Yellow Journalism - journalism that features unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or individual journalists Grover Cleveland will be elected as the 24th president previously the 22nd president -
Plessy vs. Ferguson – 'Separate but Equal' is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education) -
Grandfather Clause - voting rights of blacks challenged with literacy tests and poll taxes William McKinley would later become the president of the united states Theodore Roosevelt led the rough riders into the Spanish American war treaty of Paris would later end the war -
President McKinley assassinated, Teddy Roosevelt now 26th President -
muckrakers came about a muckrakers were writers who expose big business corruption -
Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, assembly lines introduced Republican William Howard Taft was elected as the 27th president -
16th Amendment - establishment of income tax, 17th Amend.- direct election of senators Woodrow Wilson would be elected as the 28th president of the United States -
World War I begins in Europe known as the bloodiest war of all time
President Wilson wins reelection campaign in 1917 -
Zimmerman Telegram - intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against U.S.; US. Enters WWI -
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. The prohibition movement starts in America after the 18th amendment was passed -
19th Amendment - women's suffrage (right to vote) -
The teapot dome scandal came about and would ruin the Harding administration -
Stock Market Crash -'Black Tuesday' - launches Great Depression Herbert Hoover was elected to the presidency -
Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected as the 32nd president of the united states New deal plans to try and stop the great depression -
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 unemployed and elderly -
Germany (led by Adolf Hitler) invades Poland; ww2 begins the u.s try's to stay neutral -
Pearl harbor happens the united states joins the war Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan; Allied Powers – Britain, France, China, U.S., USSR Vers
Battle of Stalingrad – seen as war's turning point for allied victory
FDR was elected to a third term -
Battle of Midway - U.S. defeats Japan, seen as turning point in the war in the Pacific. Internment of Japanese Americans - imprisonment of Japanese in California. Manhattan Project - creation of the Atomic Bomb -
Allies liberate Nazi concentration camps in Eastern Europe
FDR dies, Harry Truman becomes President; Adolf Hitler commits suicide
Germany surrenders on V-E-DAY (victory in Europe day)
U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug 9) - Japan surrenders
United Nations created with 51 founding nations
Nuremberg Trials - prosecute Nazi war criminals -
Harry s. Truman orders the marshal plan to contain communism help postwar europe -
berlin wall was created. President Harry Truman orders desegregation in the military -
Korean war begins -
Brown vs. Board of Education - overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson; says separate but equal is unconstitutional and "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 Montgomery bus boycott comes starts Eisenhower is the president -
USSR launches sputnik(the first satellite in space -
First presidential debate televised Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kennedy narrowly wins the election -
Cuban Missile Crisis - standoff b/n U.S. and USSR after Soviets placed missiles in Cuba pointed at the United States; no fighting incurs -
Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates JFK in Dallas, TX -
Lyndon Baines Johnson is the president launches the great society -
Malcom X (Nation of Islam) – blamed whites for African American problems; assassinated -
Tet Offensive launched by North Vietnamese Army-turning point of U.S. in Vietnam
James Earl Ray assassinated MLK, Jr. - hurts Civil Rights movement
Richard Nixon voted President -
withdraw of American troops from Vietnam -
President Richard Nixon resigns to avoid impeachment; Gerald Ford President - pardons Nixon; Ford is only President never voted into office -
Democrat Jimmy Carter wins the 1976 election narrowly -
Camp David Accords - Carter negotiates peace between Egypt and Israel -
Republican Govoner Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president -
Berlin Wall falls (Reagan feels its U.S.'s greatest accomplishment of the era) -
vice president George H W Bush wins election against democratic Governor Michael Dukakis Saddam Hussein orders invasion of Kuwait; starts Operation Desert Storm -
Democratic governor bill Clinton becomes the 42nd president -
Bill Clinton impeached for high crimes later acquitted by the senate -
Al gore former vice president against republicans governor George w bush recount happens in Florida bush is elected the 43rd president -
terroist attacks in New York city cause the war on terriosm to begin -
Bush defeats John Kerry to win the 2004 presidential election -
democratic Senator Barrack H. Obama Defeats Repbulican Senator John McCain -
Osama bin laden was found and killed by the American troops -
Affordable Care Act was signed Obama wins a second term against Massachusetts Republican governor Mitt Romney -
Donald John Trump shocks the world by winning the 2016 election against sectary Hillary Clinton -
the first impeachment of president Donald trump on two articles abuse of power and obstruction of congress for trying to grab information about the Biden camping and Hunter Biden´s foreign business deals -
Joseph Robinette Biden wins the democratic nomination for president Corona Virus shuts down the united states -
the death of George Floyd starts black lives matter protest and riots across the nation Derrick Chauvin arrested later found guilty for three counts of murder on April 20th 2021 -
In a 4 day election Joe Biden wins the presidency against incumbent Donald trump -
president trump wants election overturned vice president mike pence and senate majority leader Mitch McConnell do not overturn the election second impeachment of president trump and Biden inaugurated -
President Donald J Trump is acquitted even though found guilty because the did not have a two thirds vote in the senate and the house -
children's author Dr. suess is canceled for racial undertones in children books
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