History

U.S History: VHS Summer: Amanda Smith

By MandaJeanne3294
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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

    Labor unions started to grow to unite to demand change.
  • Immigration

    Immigration

    Immigration started to reach its peak in America
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance

    African Americans moved north starting the Great Migration. African American culture was brought out in the Harlem Reniassance.
  • Lusitania

    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

    War Declared on Germany

    Congress declared a war on Germany which turned out to be one of the bloodiest battles in history
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression

    The stock market crashed.
  • WWII

    WWII

    War was declared on Gemany and WWII was started.
  • Pearl Harbor

    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

    V-E Day

    Germans surrendered to the Allied forced. It ended the Holocaust.
  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Bombing of Hiroshima

    The bomb on Hiroshima was dropped. On August 9, 1945, the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
  • Korean War

    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 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

    Sputnik

    The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satalight into space and shocked Americans.
  • Hippies.

    Hippies.

    Hippies came and displayed new attitudes towards drugs and sex, communal lifestyles, and innovations in food, fashion, and music.
  • Reaganomics

    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

    WWW

    the World Wide Web was developed, in large part, for commercial purposes.
  • Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait
  • Declaring Independence

    Declaring Independence

    Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Russia itself declared independence and the Soviet Union was dissolved