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This timeline is about history about or based in the U.S. from 1877-2011. THis timeline is supposed to show what I have learned in my summer VHS class. -
Interstate Commerce Commission
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The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.It was charged with regulating the economics and services of specified carriers engaged in transportation between states. -
Homestead Act
linkThe Homestead Act of 1862, was one of the most significant and enduring events in the westward expansion of the United States. By granting 160 acres of free land to claimants, it allowed nearly any man or woman a chance to live the American dream. -
Capitalism
linkAn economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. It is a priciple baesed on individual rights. -
Imperialism
linka policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.Because it always involves the use of power, whether military force or some subtler form, imperialism has often been considered morally reprehensible, and the term is frequently employed in international propaganda to denounce and discredit an opponent’s foreign policy. -
World War One
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A war fought from 1914 to 1918 .Between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. -
League Of Nations
linkAn intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was ment ot stop any further wars. -
Stock Market Crash
linkA severe downturn in equity prices that occurred in October of 1929 in the United States, and which marked the end of the "Roaring Twenties." The crash of 1929 did not occur in one day, but was spread out over a two-week period beginning in mid-October. -
Harlem Renaissance
linkThe Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. -
Isolationism
linkA policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups. Especially the political affairs of other countries. -
WW2
linkA war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States. -
Communism
linka political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. -
Democracy
linkA system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state. Typically through elected representatives. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
linkThe attack on Pearl Harbor [nb 4] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Propaganda in WW2
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Manipulation of information to influence public opinion. The term comes from Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith), a missionary organization established by the pope in 1622. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
linkOn August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area. Followed by the bombing of Nagasaki, on August 9, this show of Allied strength hastened the surrender of Japan in World War II. -
Civil Rights Movement
linkThe civil rights movement was a mass popular movement to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Although the roots of the movement go back to the 19th century, it peaked in the 1950s and 1960s -
Invention of the Internet
linkThe first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network. -
I Have A Dream
link "I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1963. In which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. -
End of Cold War
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a state of political hostility and military tension between two countries or power blocs, involving propaganda, subversion, threats, economic sanctions, and other measures short of open warfare.Especially that between the American and Soviet blocs after World War II (the Cold War) -
Fall of the berlin Wall
linkThe Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.[1] Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989. -
The North American Free Trade Agreement
linkThe North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico. Designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries.
