US events 1900-1950

By jwaters8
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    US History 1900 to 1950

  • McKinley reelected

    McKinley is reelected president-political

  • U.S. Steel

    J.P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel, the "world's first billion-dollar corporation"-economics

  • McKinley Assasinated

    McKinley is assasinated, Teddy Roosevelt becomes president-political

  • Roosevelt deals with strike

    Roosevelt ends Anthricite coal strike, first time the workers are treated fairly -political, society, economics

  • Wilbur and Orville Wright fly first working airplane

    -society, technology

  • Roosevelt Reelected

    political

  • Roosevelt Coorollary

    The Roosevelt coorollary to the Monroe Doctrine gives the US international police power
    -political, geography

  • "The Jungle" published

    Upton Sinclair exposes horrors of the meat packing industry
    -intellectual movements, politics

  • San Fransisco Earthquake

    -geography

  • Gentlemen's agreement

    Ends Japanese immigration into the US
    -politics, geography

  • William Howard Taft elected

    -political

  • NAACP founded

    The national Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded- Social

  • Woodrow Wilson elected

    -political

  • 16th and 17th amendments

    The 16th and 17th amendments are passed
    16th- authorizes fed income tax
    17th- direct election of Senators
    -political

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Gives the US a central banking system (a national bank)
    -political, economic

  • WWI

    WWI begins in Europe
    - political, social, geography

  • Wilson reelected

    -political

  • German unrestricted submarine warfare

    -technology, geography

  • Russian Revolution begins

    -politics, social, intellectual movements, geography, era

  • US declares war on central power

    -politics, geography

  • Wilson 14 points to peace

    -politics, religion, economics, society, geography

  • Spanish Flu kills 600000 Americans

    -geography, era, technology

  • Red Scare ends with Palmer raids

    -politics, religion, intellectual movement

  • Big 4 create Peace Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

    (US rejects)
    -politics, society, geography

  • 19th amenment

    the 19th amendment gives women the right to vote
    -political, era, society

  • Warren G. Harding elected

    -political

  • Calvin Coolidge becomes president

    Harding dies
    -political

  • National Origins Act

    establishes immigration quotas
    -politics, era, society, religion

  • Coolige elected

    -political

  • Herbert Hoover elected

    -political

  • Great depression begins

    -all of them
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    Dustbowl and Great depression

    Dustbowl in South and Midwest
    -political, economics, society, era

  • FDR elected

    -political

  • New Deal begins

    -all of them

  • 21st amendment

    ends prohibition
    -politics, religion, economics, society, era

  • FDR reelected

    -political

  • Roosevelt tries to pack the supreme court

    -political, economics

  • WWI starts in Europe

    --all of them

  • Roosevelt reelected

    3rd term
    -political

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

    -politics, society, technology, geography, era

  • US declares war

    On Japan and Germany
    -all of them

  • Executive Order 9066

    Sends Japanese Americans to relocation camps
    -politics, society, geography, era

  • Plans to make the Atom bomb begins

    -political, technology

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meen in Iran

    -political, geography

  • D-Day

    Allies invade Normandy, France
    -technology, geography

  • UN Charter

    50 Nations meet in San Fransisco
    -political, gepgraphy, era, society, economics

  • Roosevelt Dies

    Harry S. Truman becomes president
    -political

  • Germany Surrenders

    -political, geography, society

  • US drops Atom bombs

    On Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan)
    -Politics, society, technology, geography, theme

  • Japan Surrenders

    -Political, geography

  • Truman Doctorine

    Atempts to stop the spread of Communism
    -political, society, intellectal movement

  • Jackie Robinson- first black player in the MLB

    -society, eras and themes

  • Truman reelected

    -political