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CommunismCommunism, first mentioned in "The Communist Manifesto," is a left wing political party. The party's beliefs involve equal sharing of weath, no matter the person.
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Transcontinental Railroad The rails connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad are joined. They were joined at Promontory, Utah.
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Coffin Notices Coffin Notices, a form of blackmail, were posted en masse in Schuylkill County. The Coffin Notices were allegedly authored by the Molly Maguires.
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Custer's Last Stand Colonel Custer attacked Little Big Horn. He did not realize that it was the main Sioux and Cheyenne encampment.
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This Timeline will cover information from 1877 to 2011. This is for the second semester of a VHS History summer course.
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"Remember the Maine!" The hull of the USS Maine explodes outside Havana, Cuba. Soon, the American Public was shouting "Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain!"
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"Morning in America"
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The Zimmermann Telegram A telegram sent from Germany to Mexico is intercepted. In it, Germany tells Mexico: if the United States enters the war, Germany will give them Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
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Farewell to IsolationWilson adresses Congress, listing off a myriad of grievences regarding Germany. Afterwards, he declared war.
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Harlem RenaissanceThe Harlem Renaissanec was a period of time in which African American culture advance at incredible speeds. It lasted from 1918 - 1937.
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[Great Depression](www.sahistory.org.za/article/great-depression-usa-grade-11)The start of the Great Depression. 16 million shares of stocks were rapidly sold by investors.
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Malcolm X and the Nation of IslamWallace Fard, who felt that Christianity was a white man's religion, founded the Nation of Islam. It was, for all intents and purposes, Islam, except it was deepy integrated with black culture.
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Nazi Ideology
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Kristallnacht: A Nationwide Pogrom, November 9–10, 1938On "The Night Of Broken Glass," Nazis destroyed thousands of Jewish homes, synagoguess and workplaces. It occured in Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
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D-Day and the German Surrender
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McCarthyism
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Viet Cong The Guerilla Warfare force that was supported by the North Vietnamese Army. They fought against the South Vietnamese and United States forces.
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[ERA: In the States - Equal Rights Amendment](www.equalrightsamendment.org/states.htm)The Equal Rights Amendment was ratified by Congress, and then sent to the states. This amendment gave men and women equal rights.
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Living in the Information AgeApple released the "Lisa," which was supposed to revolutionize personal computing. However, it's high price tage made it very undesirable.
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History of the WebTim Berners-Lee, a Software Engineer at CERN, invented the internet. It uses three technologies, HTML, URI and HTTP.
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Rodney King Biography
Rodney King was beat up by the police. African Americans all around the nation were furious.
