VA/US Timeline

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Dred Scott Case

  • Election of 1860

    Lincoln Becomes President
  • Battle of Fort Sumpter begins

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    Battle of Fort Sumter

  • Battle of Fort Sumter End

  • Battle of Antietam

    Union Victory
  • Emmancipation Proclomation issued

  • sherman anti-trust sct

  • 16th amendment

  • 17th amendment

  • Clayton anti-trust act

  • 19th amendment

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    Hoover Presidency

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    Black Tuesday

    Wall Street Crash
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression start date
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    Dust Bowl

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    New Deal

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    FDR presidency

  • 1st fireside chat

  • Civilian Concervation Corps

  • Agricultural Adjustment Act

  • FDIC

  • Wagner Act

  • Social Security Act

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Non-Agression Pact

    Hitler and Stalinagree not to sttack each other
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    World War 2

    War inEurope begins on september 1 1939
  • Pearl Harbor

  • U.S. declares war

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    Miracle of midway

  • Germany invades Russia

  • D-Day

    largest seaborn invasion in history
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    Battle of the Bulge

  • korematsu vs U.S

  • Nagasaki Atomic Bomb drop

  • V-E Day

    German surrender
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    Division of Germany

  • Hiroshima Atomic bomb drop

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    Nuremburg Trials

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    Cold War

  • NATO Creation

  • Marshall plan

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    Berlin Airlift

  • Communist takeover of China

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    Korean War

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    Eisenhower's presidency

  • Julius and Ethel Rosenburg killed

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    Warsaw Pact

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    Vietnam war

  • Sputnik

  • U2 incident

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    OPEC

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    Cuban Missile crisis

  • JFK Assassination

  • Election of 1968

    Republican: Richard Nixon
    Democratic: Hubert Humphrey
    American Independant: George Wallace
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    Nixon's Presidency

  • Nixon in China

  • Watergate Scandal

  • end of Vietnam war

    U.S steps out
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    Carter's Presidency

  • Panama Canal Treaty

  • Camp David Accord

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Reagan's Presidency

  • Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech

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    Moscow Summit

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Soviet Union Collapses