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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. They defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War in alliance with France. -
Declaration of Independence was signed
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on August 2, 1776 at the Pennsylvania State House. It gave us freedom from the British. -
George Washington's presidency
George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who also served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. -
Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South. The most studied and written about event in U.S. history. The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of African-Americans. -
Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He died do to injuries -
WW1
World War I also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars" it led to the mobilization of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. -
Hoover's Presidency
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. Many people blamed Hoover for the Great Depression. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
FDR's presidency
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. FDR helped the the economy come out of the Great Depression. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. -
United States joins WW2
Four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. declared war on Japan. After The U.S. declared war on Japan, Germany decided to declare war on the U.S. because Japan was one of their allies. Little did Germany know that this would be the turning point of the war. -
The Invasion of Normandy
The Invasion of Normandy also known as D-Day was when around one hundred and fifty five thousands allied troops landed on the beaches of France. This invasion lead to the liberation of Paris and also was known as the one of the largest military operations in history. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In 1945 Truman agreed bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both these bombings cause around for 200,000 killed and lead to the surrendering of Japan. This was the only time a nuclear weapon was used in armed conflict. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was the declaration of Truman to give economic and military aid to foreign countries that were fighting Communist threats. Truman decided to do this because he thought it would help Greece and Turkey fight against the Soviet Union without them really getting involved. This Doctrine lead to the start of the Cold War against the Soviet Union. -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a huge tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War 2. This was basically a tension where both were too scared to make a move because of both countries nuclear weaponry. The United States and the Soviet Union had the most amount of nuclear weapons that they believed was enough to end the world at the time. This war lasted until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. -
"I Have a Dream " speech
On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King presented his "I Have a Dream" speech with around 200,000 people watching him. The speech was presented 100 years from the Emancipation Proclamation and was made for Civil Rights,in honor of Abraham Lincoln, and desegregation. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a huge step forward for desegregation in America. The Civil Rights Act was a landmark civil rights law that made discrimination by color or race to be illegal. This meant African Americans would be able to go the the same school as the Caucasians and they would hired the same way as them. This later lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade was a landmark Supreme Court decision that gave Women the right to have an Abortion. The government make this decision because they wanted to protect women's health and decide whether they wanted to keep going on with their pregnancy or not. This right was only for woman being able to abort if they were in the first trimester, if the pregnancy would get to the second and third trimester there would be a medical reasoning for it. -
Attack on Twin Towers
On September 11, 2001 a number of attacks were made on the Pentagon and the Twin Towers. The attacks were made with four hijacked airplanes that would suicide into the Pentagon and the World Trade center. These attacks killed around 3,000 people and 6,000 injured. A little time after the attack President George W. Bush decided to attack the Islamic terrorist. -
Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Osama Bin Landen was the man accused of causing the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. He died in Operation Neptune Spear which carried out by U.S. Navy SEALs. The raid was on in Abbottabad in a compound where Osama was hiding in. The struggle to find him in the first place took many many years so this was a huge thing for the U.S. since he was the reason for the largest terrorist attack ever done to them.
