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Made travelling from East-to-West and West-to-East much more affordable and much quicker. Hastened the settling of the Western United States.
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Strike was shut down fairly quickly, but it showed other workers around the U.S. that there were others working in similar conditions that were fed up with it. It sparked other strikes and was one of the first strikes in the Great Upheaval.
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The idea that people in society are subject to Darwin's observations in nature. Concepts like 'Survival of the Fittest' (Dates are an approximation. Was roughly from the late 19th century to the early 20th.)
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After U.S.-Spain relations were not fairing well, the U.S.S Maine was sunken near Havana's harbor. The U.S. immediately thought that it must have been the Spanish, and declared war. http://www.ushistory.org/us/44c.asp
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After a few months of fighting, where the under-prepared U.S. military crushed the even more under-prepared Spanish military, the U.S. gained several territories as its spoils.
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Prohibition, start of a consumer economy, people having more free time to ignore prohibition, flappers, spread of the automoblie, a decade that really did roar.
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Largest stock market crash in U.S. history. One main cause of the Great Depression. http://www.ushistory.org/us/48a.asp
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Roosevelt suspended all banking transactions except for deposits from the 6th to the 10th to present the Emergency Banking Act, which sorted banks into three categories to determine their fates. By doind so, he fxed the bank crisis.
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The Social Security Act gave people over 65 a monthly stipend based on their paycheck and other factors. Lifted some uncertainty about citizens' futures.
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Japanese attack on the United States. It caused the United States to enter the war and fight the Axis powers in two theaters of war.
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Successful Allied attempt to open up the European theater into a two-front war. Largest amphibious mobilization ever to take place. The invasion of Normandy was the first of many steps in ending the war in Europe.
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First successful launch into space. Started the Space Race and prompted the creation of NASA
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Feminists were pushing for equal pay for equal work, and wanted pass something that prevented gender discrimination.
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Got rid of 'separate but equal' and made the people of the U.S. more equal.
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On the Buddist holiday of Tet, the NVA attacked southward quickly and powerfully, they pushed as far south as Saigon and even attacked the embassy there.
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Massive discoveries in technology have made it much much easier for people to acess information, whether it be looking up a fact, or talking to someone over the internet.
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Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. U.S. led Operation Desert Shield Became Desert Strom after the Iraqi army refused to leave Kuwait.
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The 'Red Menace' was defeated. The U.S. had come out on top and was left as the world's largest superpower
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"The 20th century was called the 'American century'" people were uneasy at the end of the century. The world was becoming more connected, though the U.S. had seen a president impeached, there were genocides, and wars. What was to come was unseen.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/60e.asp
