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U.S History: VHS Summer: Amanda Smith
This timeline represents everything that has happened from the 1870's to the present day. The events show us what took place in history. -
Labor
Labor unions started to grow to unite to demand change. -
Immigration
Immigration started to reach its peak in America -
Harlem Renaissance
African Americans moved north starting the Great Migration. African American culture was brought out in the Harlem Reniassance. -
Lusitania
The ship called the Lusitania was sunk by a German u-boat. 1,198 passengers were killed. The boat was carrying ammunition for the war. -
War Declared on Germany
Congress declared a war on Germany which turned out to be one of the bloodiest battles in history -
Great Depression
The stock market crashed. -
WWII
War was declared on Gemany and WWII was started. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor killing almost 3,000 Americans. Six battleships were destroyed or could not be used, and most of the ground planes were destroyed. -
V-E Day
Germans surrendered to the Allied forced. It ended the Holocaust. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The bomb on Hiroshima was dropped. On August 9, 1945, the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. -
Korean War
North Korea crossed over the 38th parallel into South Korea and started the Korean War. -
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks started the revolution by not giving up her seat to a white man on the bus. She was arrested and fined $10 for not giving up her seat. Soon after, Martin Luther King Jr. came to ignight the rest of the black community into rebellion. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satalight into space and shocked Americans. -
Hippies.
Hippies came and displayed new attitudes towards drugs and sex, communal lifestyles, and innovations in food, fashion, and music. -
Reaganomics
He claimed an undue tax burden, excessive government regulation, and massive social spending programs hampered growth. Reagan proposed a phased 30% tax cut for the first three years of his Presidency. -
WWW
the World Wide Web was developed, in large part, for commercial purposes. -
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait -
Declaring Independence
Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Russia itself declared independence and the Soviet Union was dissolved
