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Period: to
US History 1900 to 1950
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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 -
Period: to
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