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Thomas Edison
Edison first set up his lab in Menlo Park in 1876, and in 1878 he formed the Edison Electrical Company, which was responsible for the invention of the light bulb, the generator, and many other appliances that utilized electricity. Edison was also memorable for his self-promotion and publicity efforts. -
Henery Ford
Ford experimented w/the internal combustion engine (i.e. car). But his biggest achievement was his manufacturing scheme – the mass-production of identical cars for mass consumption. Ford created the Ford Motor Company in 1903 and, by doing so, democratized the car. -
Supreme Court
he Supreme Courrt uphold the right to issue and Injunction. Which say that the President has the power to end strikes. This gave Corpoations gained a powerful legal weapon that they used against unions for years -
Company Bought
J.P Morgan bought Andrew Carnegie's steel company. Morgan consolidated it with several other firms to form the U.S. Steel Cororation. -
Women Piolet
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1937 she is lost over the Pacific on a round-the-world flight. Her plane and the bodies of Earhart and her navigator are never found. -
New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a democrat from New York, defeats Hoover for the presidency. In his first 100 days in office, Roosevelt launches the New Deal including dozens of federal programs to help agriculture. FDR calls for social security, a more fair tax system and a host of federal jobs programs to get people back to work -
TVA
The Tennesee Valley Authority (TVA) is enacted into law. The project was championed by Sen. George Norris from Nebraska, and one of the first TVA dams was named after him. The massive project built tens of dams along the watershed to provide electrical power to the rural areas, control flooding, provide irrigation and create lakes for recreation. -
Hitler
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. Italian prime minister and dictator Benito Mussolini invades Ethiopia in 1935. Japan invades China in 1937. And Hitler marches into Austria in 1938. Germany, Japan, and Italy withdraw from the League of Nations. -
War
Germany invades Poland. Great Britain declares war on Germany. Soon, all of Europe is fighting. The U.S. enters the war in December, 1941, although FDR is supplying Britain and the allies with guns and material before that date. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War -
Bay of Pigs
s a bay on the southern coast of Cuba. It was the site of a failed attempt during John F. Kennedy's presidency at a US-backed invasion by Cuban exiles intent on overthrowing Fidel Castro, at a beach near Havana called Playa Giron -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba was abandoned by countries that supported her in the revolution, so she turned to Communist Russia for aid. Russia agreed to give Cuba oil, and buy Cuba's biggest product (sugar) at a gauranteed price. In return, Cuba would agree to let Russia use the island to 'spy' on the US, and plant a military base there...So far so good, till the Russians planted on Cuba...nuclear missiles; capable of reaching 3/4 of the continental US. -
March On Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage -
Childern's March
The Birmingham Campaign ended with a victory in May of 1963 when local officials agreed to remove "White Only" and "Black Only" signs from restrooms and drinking fountains in downtown Birmingham; desegregate lunch counters; deploy a "Negro job improvement plan"; release jailed demonstrators; and create a biracial committee to monitor the agreement. Desegregation would take place slowly over the next few months coupled with violent attacks from angry segregationists, including the bombing of the -
My Lai Massacre
Lieutnetant William L. Calley Jr. had 350 Vietnamese killed. All were civilians of the village of My Lai. -
Kent State Massacre
Governer James Rhodes calls for the National Guardto kent state. 2 days before the students of kent state burned the campus ROTC building down, in response of the Presidents Combodian invasion -
Soviets Fall
the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The United States rejoiced as its formidable enemy was brought to its knees, thereby ending the Cold War which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II -
911
Twin towers hit by hijacked passenger airplanes. from this security in airports was increased, And the Emergency 9-11 was started. -
Justice War
The U.S declares war on Afganistan, for hiding the leader of the terroist gruoup the Taliban, Osama Binladen. Who was responsible for the planing of the Twin Tower attack.