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The Triangle Shirtwaist Company
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company’s fire resulted in the tragic loss of nearly 150 young women and girls on March 25, 1911, in New York City. The workers at the company had been attempting to unionize to gain better wages and improved working conditions. The factory’s management responded by locking the workers into the building.Since the exits were blocked, girls attempted to use the rusted fire escape or jump from windows into the fire department’s dry-rotted nets, only to plunge onto pavement. -
KKK Marches in Washington August 8,1925.
The parade took place in broad daylight, in the nation’s capital, and most of the participants were from the north. This event symbolizes the Nadir of Race Relations, a terrible era from 1890 to about 1940, when race relations grew worse and worse.During this period white Americans became more racist than at any other point in our history, even during slavery.These are towns that were for decades and in some cases still are all-white on purpose. -
1929 Stock Market
The era came to a close in October 1929 when the stock market crashed, setting the stage for years of economic deprivation and calamity during the Great Depression. Many people were left without jobs and the economy was at its worst. -
FDR's First Fireside Chat
In 1933 at least one-fourth of the U.S. workforce was unemployed when the administration of FDR first took on the ravages of the Great Depression with the New Deal. The federal government program that sought to bring about immediate economic relief.Some examples how they tried to get economic relief were by agriculture, finance, labor, and housing.On March 1933, Roosevelt gave an informal radio addresses, the fireside chats, which were initially intended to garner support for the New Deal. -
Hoover Dam
The Hoover Dam is located within the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, in Nevada, 35 miles from Las Vegas.The Hoover Dam was built during the Great Depression. Construction work began in 1931 and it was completed in 1936. The exact start date was April 20, 1931 and the completion date was March 11, 1936.More than 8.5 million pounds of dynamite was used to blast the foundation for the Hoover Dam and 8 miles of tunnels through the Black Canyon walls. -
The World of Tomorrow
New York City holds the World’s Fair on April 20 1939. The theme was "The World of Tomorrow." The fair includes the first exhibition of television, ushering in a new era of media and entertainment. The theme is meant to provide an escape from the realities of the Great Depression and looming World War. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, commences at 7:55 a.m. December 11, 1941 was the day which Pearl Harbor was bombed. The surprise attack on United States destroyed the U.S. Pacific Fleet docked at the base.The United States declares war on Germany and Italy, responding to their declaration of war against America. -
he Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
, the U.S. entered World War II on the side of the Allies following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.In August 1945, with the war in Europe over and U.S. forces advancing on Japan.Harry S. Truman ushered in the nuclear era by choosing to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a terrible thing for Japan. -
President Harry Truman
President Harry S. Truman rallies from behind, capturing his first president election. Truman won the Electoral College vote with 303 to Dewey's 189.Truman won the election with less than 50% of the popular votes. November 2, 1948 was the day he won. -
Conspiracy of Wartime
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of conspiracy of wartime espionage and sentenced to death. They were executed June 19, 1953. Morton Sobell was also convicted of the crime and sentenced to thirty years in prison.It was very shocking to everyone. -
U.S. Army–McCarthy Hearings
Joseph McCarthy gave his name to an era (McCarthyism) by fanning the flames of anti-communist hysteria.the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated alleged communist activities in the entertainment industry. McCarthy’s influence waned in 1954 when a nationally televised 36-day hearing on his charges of subversion by U.S. Army officers and civilian officials exposed his brutal interrogative tactics. -
Racial Segregation
Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education. The ruling of the court stated that racial segregation violated the 14th Amendment's clause that guaranteed equal protection. The Monroe School in Topeka, Kansas had segregated Linda Brown in its classes. -
Disneyland
Someone's father worked at previous world's fairs and inspired his son to build the iconic Magic Castle and other exhibits opens in Anaheim, California.Also opened some shows too. Disneyland California remains today as one of the greatest theme park capitals of the world.Disney World was additionally inspired by the subsequent New York World's Fair of 1964-5.The original intention by Walt Disney to build the second park on the Flushing Meadows site of that event. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.She then prompts a boycott that would lead to the declaration that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional by a federal court. Thanks to her people payed more attention to the problem. She is now being remembered by everyone. -
Assasination of MLK
At the center of the widespread social and political upheaval of the 1960s were the civil rights movement, opposition to the Vietnam War, the emergence of youth-oriented counterculture, and the establishment and reactionary elements that pushed back against change. The April 4, 1968, assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent civil rights leader, revealed the tragic, violent consequences that could result from a country’s political polarization.. -
Watergate Scandal
Facing likely impeachment for his role in covering up the scandal surrounding the break-in at the Democratic National Committee. Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., in June 1972—Republican Richard Nixon became the only U.S. president to resign. The loss of faith in government officials that resulted from the scandal suffused both popular and political culture with paranoia and disillusionment for the remainder of the decade. It was a very stressing day for people. -
The Monica Lewinsky Affair (1998–99)
Having failed to push through a number of high-profile policy initiatives early in his first term as president and confronted with Republican majorities.In both houses of Congress after the 1994 midterm election, Democrat Bill Clinton pivoted toward political accommodation. .Nonetheless, his affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, led to his impeachment in December 1998, though he was acquitted of charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. -
9/11
Although terrorist attacks had been directed at the United States at the end of the 20th century, a new sense of vulnerability was introduced into American life on September 11, 2001. Islamist terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Pennsylvania countryside. This resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. Since then, more security has been put on board to prevent this again. -
Election of Barack Obama
On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the 44th president, and the first African American to be elected to that office. Not only was Obama the first African-American president, he was also the first to be born outside the continental United States. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. -
Election of Donald Trump
Since at least the 1980s, the U.S. had been politically polarized by so-called culture wars that symbolically divided the country into Republican-dominated red states and Democrat-dominated blue state. The 2016 election of Trump whose campaign was grounded in nationalism and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Since then Trump has proposed many ideas for our problems and many dont seem to agree. Many people don't like our president either.
