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Early American History
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Declaration of Independence signed
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Constitution written
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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The Gilded Age
Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
Philanthropy
Monopoly
Jane Addams
Laissez-Faire -
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The Progressive Era
Pure food and drug act -
Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
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USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War
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Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States
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Imperialism
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Foreign Policy
Immigration Quotas
Yellow Journalism -
Panama Canal Built
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
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NAACP Founded
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I
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World War I
Alvin York
Homefront
M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
Sussex Pledge
American Expeditionary Forces -
Sinking of the Lusitania
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National Parks System created
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Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany
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The United States enters WWI on the Allied side
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Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war
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Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
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Roaring Twenties
Social Darwinism
The Red Scare
Assembly Line
Return to Normalcy
Harlem Renaissance -
Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal
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Scopes Monkey Trial
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Stock Market Crash
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Great Depression
Hoovervilles
The New Deal
Causes of the Great Depression (5)
Court Packing
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Dust Bowl
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
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Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII
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World War II
Island Hopping
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Navajo Code Talkers
Tuskegee Airmen
Flying Tigers
The Manhattan Project
Rosie the Riveter -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Midway
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Bataan Death March
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“D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy
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United Nations formed
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The atomic bomb, used on Japan (August 6 & 9)
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Early Cold War
Containment- stopping the spread.
Arms Race/Space Race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Communism
Domino Theory- ones -
Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO established
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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era
24th Amendment: Abolishes the poll tax -
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Vietnam War
Tinker v. Des Moines: defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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USSR launches Sputnik
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
First Man on the Moon
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Title IX
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End of the Cold War
22nd Amendment: prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam Wa
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1990s-21st Century
Barack Obama
al-Qaeda
No Child Left Behind
President Clinton’s Impeachment
Presidential Election of 2000 -
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Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
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Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War
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Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon
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USA PATRIOT Act
tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism -
Hurricane Katrina