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End of Reconstruction
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The Wounded Knee Massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre took place December 29, 1890, Near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The day before, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside intercepted Spotted Elk's (Big Foot) band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them 5 miles westward (8 km) to Wounded Knee Creek where they made camp. -
The Disastrous Panic of 1893
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The Panama Canal
THis Canal joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. This was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. -
Harlem Renaissance
a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. -
The New Deal
a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were responses to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform". -
World War I
World War I which was called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the Furst World WAr or World War I thereafter was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. -
Cold War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies – and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its allies. Although the chief military forces never engaged in a major battle with each other, they expressed the conflict through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive a -
Civil Rights Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movementThe civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was accompanied, or followed, by civil unrest and armed rebellion. The process was long and tenuous in many countries, and many of these movements did not fully achieve their goals although, the efforts of these -
Korean War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_WarThe Korean War (25 June 1950 – armistice signed 27 July 1953[28]) was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. The Korean peninsula was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War -
Vietnam War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_WarThe Vietnam War[A 3] was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations.[25] The Viet Cong, a lightly armed South Vietnamese communist-controlled common front, largely fought a guerrilla -
Cuban Missle Crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_CrisisThe Cuban Missile Crisis (known as The October Crisis in Cuba or Caribbean Crisis (Russ: Kарибский кризис) in the USSR) was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. In August 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban regime (Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose), the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear mi -
Iran Hostage Crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisisThe Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in support of the Iranian Revolution. -
Globalization
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.globalsherpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/globalization-hands-pic.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.globalsherpa.org/global-quiz-geography-globalization&h=362&w=362&sz=20&tbnid=U7wxqBmWPK9GLM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=99&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dglobalization.%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=globalization.&docid=9srIC7bKDF2FVM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7sdJTpO9HKrb0QHmu7zrBw&ved=0CEsQ9QEwBA&dur=104http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalizationGlobalization refers to the increasing unification of the world's economic order through reduction of such barriers to international trade as tariffs, export fees, and import quotas. The goal is to increase material wealth, goods, and services through an international division of labor by efficiencies catalyzed by international relations, specialization and competition. It describes the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through communication. -
Reagans Presidency
Reagan was born in Tampico in Whiteside County, Illinois, reared in Dixon in Lee County, Illinois, and educated at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. Upon his graduation, Reagan first moved to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in 1937 to Los Angeles, California. He began a career as an actor, first in films and later television, appearing in over 50 movie productions. -
Presidency of Clinton
The United States Presidency of Bill Clinton, also known as the Clinton Administration, was the executive branch of the federal government of the United States from January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001. Clinton was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term. Clinton was also the first president since FDR and the last until current President Barack Obama to have not served in the military in any capacity; of his predecessors, all served in some capacity d
