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1889
Hull-House, a settlement house, opens in Chicago -
1894
The Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed -
1895
Cuban insurrection breaks out against Spain rule -
1898
U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana Harbor -
1898
War of 1898 -
1898
The U.S annexes Hawaii -
1899
The U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the war of 1898 -
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Filipino insurgents resist U.S. domination -
1900
Army Yellow Fever Commission confirms the cause of yellow fever -
1900
International alliance quells the Boxer Rebellion -
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1902
Theodore Roosevelt attempts to arbitrate the coal strike -
1902
Justice Department breaks up Northern Securities Company -
1903
Panamanians revolt against Columbia -
1903
Congress passes the Elkins Act -
1903
Wright Brothers fly the first airplane -
1903
Ford Motor Company is founded -
1905
Russo-Japanese War -
1905
First movie house opens -
1906
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is published -
1906
Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and
Drug Act -
1907
The great White Fleet circumnavigates the globe in a demonstration of America's rise to world-power status. -
1908
Supreme Court issues Muller v. Oregon decision -
1909
William Taft is inaugurated president -
1910
Congress passes the Mann-Elkins Act -
1910
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is
founded -
1911
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire -
1913
Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act -
1914
Panama Canal opens -
1914
Congress passes the Clayton Anti-Trust Act -
1914
United States intervenes in Mexico -
1914
World War I begins in Europe -
1915
British liner Lusitania, with Americans aboard, is
torpedoed without warning by a German submarine -
1916
Louis Brandeis is nominated to fill a seat on the Supreme Court -
1916
Congress passes the National Defense Act -
1916
Marcus Garvey brings to New York the Universal Negro Improvement Association -
1917
March - Zimmermann telegram reveals that Germany is
attempting to incite Mexico to enter the war against the
United States -
1917
April - United States enters the Great War -
1918
January - Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech -
1918
November 11th - Representatives of warring nations sign armistice -
1919
Supreme Court issues Schenck v. United States decision -
1919
May - Treaty of Versailles is presented to the Germans -
1919
Race riots break out in Chicago -
1919
U.S. attorney general launches Red Scare -
1920
Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s suffrage, is ratified -
1920
Prohibition begins -
1920
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise is published -
1921
Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in physics -
1921
July - Joint resolution of Congress officially ends the war
among the United States, Germany, and Austria-Hungary -
1921
Congress passes the Emergency Immigration Act -
1921
Representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France,
Italy, and Japan attend the Washington Naval Conference -
1922
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is published
First radio commercial is aired -
1922
United States begins sending observers to the League of
Nations
Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy -
1923
President Warren G. Harding dies in office -
1924
Congress passes the Immigration Act -
1925
Scopes “monkey trial” tests the teaching of evolution in Tennessee
public schools -
1927
Charles Lindbergh Jr. makes first solo transatlantic flight -
1928
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
self-defense -
1929
October 29th - Stock market crashes -
1930
Congress passes the Hawley-Smoot Tariff -
1932
Congress sets up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation -
1932
Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act -
1933
Bonus Expeditionary Force converges on Washington to
demand payment of bonuses promised to war veterans -
March 1933
Congress passes the Emergency Banking Relief Act
Congress passes the Beer-Wine Revenue Act
Congress establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps -
May 1933
Congress creates the Tennessee Valley Authority -
June 1933
Congress establishes the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation -
November 1933
Congress creates the Civil Works Administration -
1933
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany -
1935
President Roosevelt creates the Works Progress
Administration
Congress passes the Wagner Act -
1937
Social Security goes into effect -
1937
Panay incident -
1938
Hitler forces the Anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany -
1939
John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath is published -
1939
Soviet Union agrees to a nonaggression pact with Germany -
September 1939
German troops invade Poland -
1940
Richard Wright’s Native Son is published -
1940
Battle of Britain -
September 1940
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact -
December 7, 1941 J
Japanese launch surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -
June 1942
Battle of Midway -
January 1943
Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff
meet at Casablanca -
July 1943
Allied forces land on Sicily -
1943
Roosevelt and Churchill meet Stalin, in Tehran -
June 6, 1944
D-day -
1944
Congress passes the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill
of Rights) -
1944
Congress passes the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
(GI Bill of Rights) -
February 1945
Yalta Conference -
April 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies; Hitler commits suicide -
May 8, 1945
V-E day -
August 1945
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
September 2, 1945
Japanese surrender -
April 1945
Fifty nations at war with the Axis Powers sign the United
Nations Charter -
1947
Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Labor Act -
1947
National Security Council (NSC) is established -
May 1948
Israel is proclaimed an independent nation -
July 1948
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October 1948
Allied forces begin airlifting supplies to West Berlin -
November 1948
Truman defeats Dewey in the presidential election -
1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created -
1949
China “falls” to communism -
1950
United States and other UN members go to war in Korea -
1952
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is published -
June 1953
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are executed -
July 1953
Armistice is reached in Korea -
April–June 1954
Army-McCarthy hearings are televised -
1954
Supreme Court issues ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas -
July 1954
Geneva Accords adopted -
December 1955
Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott begins -
1956
In Suez War, Israel, Britain, and France attack Egypt
Hungarian revolt against the Warsaw Pact is quickly
suppressed -
1957
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 -
1960
U-2 incident reveals that the United States is flying spy
planes over the Soviet Union