10 Important Moments in US History

By kimberlyherndon25
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    10 Important Moments in US History

    10 important moments in US history

  • The World Takes Flight

    "November, 3, 1903 - With United States support after the Hay-Herran Treaty rejection by Columbia earlier in the year, Panama declares its independence from Columbia. The Panama government is recognized by President Theodore Roosevelt three days later and a canal treaty is signed on November 18, allowing the U.S. led construction of the canal."

  • World War 1

    "World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers)."

  • Prosperity in the 1920s

    "In the 1920s, nearly half the nation's population still resided in rural areas, dependent upon agriculture for survival. And the Roaring '20s were unkind to America's farmers. The decade began with the end of a period of great prosperity."

  • The Great Depression

    "The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors."

  • World War 2

    "Among the causes of World War II were, to a greater extent, the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party and its aggressive foreign policy, and to a lesser extent, Italian Fascism in the 1920s, and Japanese militarism preceding an invasion of China in the 1930s."

  • Two Cars for Every Garage

    This holds the same meaning as "a chicken for every pot".

  • Civil Rights and Turmoil

    This was the time not everyone was treated fairly. Certain people were struggling just by existing in America. There was a great disturbance in people's civil rights.

  • The Nation in Flux

    "For the first time, the 1970 census counted over 200 million people living in the United States. The 13.4% increase since the last census indicated that a 203,302,031 population now called the U.S.A. home. It had taken only fifty years to go from the first 100 million census in 1920 to the second. Once again, the geographic center of the United States population was in Illinois, five miles east southeast of Mascoutah."

  • The Reagan Revolution

    "The Reagan Era or Age of Reagan is a periodization of recent American history used by historians and political observers to emphasize that the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a lasting impact."

  • Prosperity as the World Turns

    "With a neatness history seldom offers, the era now ending can be said to have begun five centuries ago with the great geographic explorations that opened the way to the outpouring of energies, ideas and institutions of Western Europe. From that period—the vision of Prince Henry the Navigator and the late 15th century. We can reasonably date the sustained expansion in Europe, the growth of commerce, the stirrings of science and emergence of the basic premises of modern western life."