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Hull-House, a settlement house, opens in Chicago
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The Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed
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Cuban insurrection breaks out against Spain rule
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U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana Harbor
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War of 1898
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The U.S annexes Hawaii
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The U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the war of 1898
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Filipino insurgents resist U.S. domination
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Army Yellow Fever Commission confirms the cause of yellow fever
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International alliance quells the Boxer Rebellion
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Theodore Roosevelt attempts to arbitrate the coal strike
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Justice Department breaks up Northern Securities Company
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Panamanians revolt against Columbia
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Congress passes the Elkins Act
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Wright Brothers fly the first airplane
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Ford Motor Company is founded
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Russo-Japanese War
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First movie house opens
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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is published
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Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and
Drug Act -
The great White Fleet circumnavigates the globe in a demonstration of America's rise to world-power status.
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Supreme Court issues Muller v. Oregon decision
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William Taft is inaugurated president
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Congress passes the Mann-Elkins Act
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
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Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act
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Panama Canal opens
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Congress passes the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
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United States intervenes in Mexico
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World War I begins in Europe
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British liner Lusitania, with Americans aboard, is
torpedoed without warning by a German submarine -
Louis Brandeis is nominated to fill a seat on the Supreme Court
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Congress passes the National Defense Act
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Marcus Garvey brings to New York the Universal Negro Improvement Association
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March - Zimmermann telegram reveals that Germany is
attempting to incite Mexico to enter the war against the
United States -
April - United States enters the Great War
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January - Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech
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November 11th - Representatives of warring nations sign armistice
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Supreme Court issues Schenck v. United States decision
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May - Treaty of Versailles is presented to the Germans
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Race riots break out in Chicago
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U.S. attorney general launches Red Scare
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Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s suffrage, is ratified
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Prohibition begins
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise is published
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Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in physics
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July - Joint resolution of Congress officially ends the war
among the United States, Germany, and Austria-Hungary -
Congress passes the Emergency Immigration Act
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Representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France,
Italy, and Japan attend the Washington Naval Conference -
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is published
First radio commercial is aired -
United States begins sending observers to the League of
Nations
Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy -
President Warren G. Harding dies in office
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Congress passes the Immigration Act
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Scopes “monkey trial” tests the teaching of evolution in Tennessee
public schools -
Charles Lindbergh Jr. makes first solo transatlantic flight
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Herbert Hoover is elected president
More than sixty nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact pledging not to go to war with one another, except in matters of
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October 29th - Stock market crashes
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Congress passes the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Congress sets up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act
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Bonus Expeditionary Force converges on Washington to
demand payment of bonuses promised to war veterans -
Congress passes the Emergency Banking Relief Act
Congress passes the Beer-Wine Revenue Act
Congress establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps -
Congress creates the Tennessee Valley Authority
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Congress establishes the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation -
Congress creates the Civil Works Administration
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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President Roosevelt creates the Works Progress
Administration
Congress passes the Wagner Act -
Social Security goes into effect
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Panay incident
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Hitler forces the Anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany
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John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath is published
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Soviet Union agrees to a nonaggression pact with Germany
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German troops invade Poland
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Richard Wright’s Native Son is published
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Battle of Britain
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
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Japanese launch surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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Battle of Midway
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff
meet at Casablanca -
Allied forces land on Sicily
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Roosevelt and Churchill meet Stalin, in Tehran
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D-day
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Congress passes the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill
of Rights) -
Congress passes the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
(GI Bill of Rights) -
Yalta Conference
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies; Hitler commits suicide
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V-E day
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japanese surrender
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Fifty nations at war with the Axis Powers sign the United
Nations Charter -
Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Labor Act
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National Security Council (NSC) is established
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Israel is proclaimed an independent nation
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Allied forces begin airlifting supplies to West Berlin
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Truman defeats Dewey in the presidential election
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created
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China “falls” to communism
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United States and other UN members go to war in Korea
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Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is published
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are executed
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Armistice is reached in Korea
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Army-McCarthy hearings are televised
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Supreme Court issues ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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Geneva Accords adopted
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Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott begins
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In Suez War, Israel, Britain, and France attack Egypt
Hungarian revolt against the Warsaw Pact is quickly
suppressed -
Federal troops ordered to protect students attempting to
integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is published
Baby boom peaks -
U-2 incident reveals that the United States is flying spy
planes over the Soviet Union