US history timeline

By anaviolettapizinger

  • Westward Expansion

    A time of mining,ranching and conflict with the native Americans.

  • The Gilded Age

    A time of Industrialization, monopolies, Andrew Carnegie, urbanization and immigration.

  • U.S. Imperialism

    U.S. expansion overseas, Spanish American war 1898,annexation of Hawaii, Teddy Roosevelt

  • Progressive Era

    Democratic Reforms, Regulation of monopolies,consumer protection, women's suffrage, prohibition

  • World War 1

    The sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, Trench warfare, Woodrow Wilson, League of nations

  • The Roaring Twenties

    Jazz age, flappers,prohibition,The "new" KKK, Scopes Trial

  • Great Depression

    Stock market crash, high unemployment,Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New deal

  • World War II

    Pearl harbor, Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, Europe and the Pacific, Atomic Bomb

  • The cold war

    Soviet Union,communism,containment, arms race, space race (Sputnik 1957), Espionage

  • Civil Rights Movement

    MLK, Rosa Parks, Sit ins, Brown vs.Board of education,"I have a dream"

  • Vietnam War

    Part of the cold war, U.s. supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson, Draft, Antiwar Movement

  • Late 20th Century

    Inflation,Oil crisis, conservative Resurgence, End of the cold war, Technological Revolution

  • US in the 21 century

    globalization, 9/11 terrorist attacks, war on terror, hurricane Katrina, 2008 economic Recession, Election of Barack Obama