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The United States and the Caribbean
Relationship with the Caribbean region underwent a change, which has been closely tied to the transition of the United States to an industrial and imperial power. -
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American History from 1877 to the present timeline
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Gilded Age
The Gilded Age is a period approximately spanning the final three decades of the nineteenth century; from the end of the Reconstruction Era in the 1870s to 1900. -
Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform in the United States, that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. One main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government. -
New York City
New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. -
War
Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor, Cuba, for then-unknown reasons, killing 266 men. This event helps lead the United States to declare war on Spain. -
Foreign Affairs from Imperialism to Post-World War I
The industrial and territorial growth of the United States fostered expansion overseas. Greater involvement in the world set the stage for American participation in World War I and attempts to preserve post-war peace. -
Stock market crash
One of the first insitutions to feel the effects of the stock market crash was the country's banking system. 641 commercial banks failed and thst number increased as the years went by. Also businesses closed and the unemployment rate soared. -
Adolf Hitler appointed as Chancellor
In 1933 Hitler was chosen to be Chancellor of Germany due to his support from citizens that were angry about The Treaty of Versailles and WW1. -
The new deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders. -
The Regina Riot
Regina Riot began when the Ottawa Trekkers were stopped in Regina to have their leaders speak to representatives of the prime minister and then the prime minister himself if they made the other Trekkers wait in Regina. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. -
D-Day
Allied forces began barging on the beaches of Normandy in an effort to retake it. Landings came in the form of paratroopers and soldiers from boats. The allied forces chose to invade Normandy because it was the least fortified coastal area. -
U,S
President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin sign the Yalta Agreement, Was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom -
USS
The USS Indianapolis is sunk by Japanese Submarine killing 883 seamen on July 29th , ( Many were killed through shark attacks while awaiting rescue ) -
Fat Man
The United States detonates an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" over the city of Nagasaki, Japan, released by the B-29 Bockscar, the 10,000-pound weapon -
U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. -
Iron Cutain
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill spoke at a small college in Fulton, Missouri. This famous speech, officially called The Sinews of Peace -
Marshall Plan
June 5, 1947 Marshall Plan is Announced The goal of the Marshall Plan was to revive Europe. At first look giving European nations $20 billion dollars. -
Disaster
In 2001 we had a major disaster. There were multiple tusamis and hurricans that came throught and they destroyed 200$ billion million dollars in damage, -
9/11
Were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage. -
Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
