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Roosevelt's Corollary
was added to the Monroe Doctrine after the Venezuela Crisis. It states that the U.S. will intervene between some countries in times of conflict. -
Scopes-Monkey Trial
was a trial in which a ordinary science teacher taught evolution in class and got in trouble. The court case eventually decided that teaching evolution in class may not be right but it shouldn't be illegal. -
Herbert Hoover elected
Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States and is most commonly known for being "the president during the Great Depression". He was so unpopular that people named homeless villages after him; "Hoovervilles". -
Stock market crashes to start the Great Depression
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was the most devestation stock market crash in the U.S. ever. This was mainly because of the amount of damage that it caused afterward. -
FDR elected
was the 32nd President of the U.S. He was a well liked president and he was most famous for bringing the U.S. out of the Great Depression. -
FDR begins fireside chats
Fireside chats were a series fo radio addresses by FDR to help communticate to the common people exactly what was going on in America. It allowed a kind of trust between the people and the President. -
Eleanor Roosevelt becomes first lady
Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most influential First Ladies of America and redefined the role of First Ladies for many to come after her. -
Rosie the Riveter image first used
Rosie the Riveter was the symbol of women who worked in manufacturing plants supporting the war effort. This symbol still very popular today and was even impersonated by Beyonce. -
Cold war begins
was a type of tension after WWII between America and Russia. Nobody actually fought but each supported wars that were called proxy wars. -
Brown v. Board
Brown v. Board was an important court case for the Supreme Court because it established that segregationed schools were unconstitutional and social desadvantages to colored children. -
Malcolm X killed
Malcolm X was an influential leader of the black rights movement who was a violent, angry muslim speaker. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
In the Montgomery Bus Boycott, King strategy was to have black people refuse to use bus systems within the area, ewhich eventually crippled the bus economy of Montgomery. -
JFK elected
John F. Kennedy was the 35th and youngest president ever elected. He served during the Cold War and was also well known for being the only Roman-Catholic ever elected to office. -
JFK assassinated
JFK was assassinated in Dallas, TX while on a political trip and on TV. It was later assumed that Lee Harvey Oswald shot the president with his hunting rifle, however, we may never know because he was murdered two days later. -
Bull Connor uses firehoses
Bull Connor was a horrible man of power in the South who used firehoses to keep children from protesting against the unfair racial laws. -
"The Feminine Mystique" is published
"The Feminine Mystique" is a book written By Betty Friedan and it was supposed to have started the "Second Wave Feminism". In this book, she challenges the widely shared belief that "fulfilment as a woman had only one definition for American women after 1949, which was the housewife mother." -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an act that proclaimed equal rights for all people of color amoungst other things. -
Griswold v. Connecticut
Griswold v. Connecticut was a well known case which the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution, through the Bill of Rights, implies a fundamental right to privacy. -
NOW formed
NOW is an American feminist organization. it has 550 chapters in all 50 stated and is left-leaning. -
Richard Nixon elected
was the 37th president of the U.S. He is most commonly known for both Apollo 13 and the big Watergate Scandal in which he was impeached/resigned. -
MLK killed
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was perhaps one of the most influential leaders of the black rights movement. -
Woodstock
was a music festical in the U.S. in which 400,000 showed up to watch at a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of southern NY. It showed America that people can actually get along. -
Vietnam draft begins
During the Vietnam War, people were drafted through the Selective Service System to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War. This was the basic conscription from just before WWII to 1973. -
Nixon's revised Philidelphia Plan implimated
The Philadelphia Plan was a program of affirmative action to racially integrate the building construction trade through mandatory goals for nonwhite hiring on federal construction contracts. -
Kent state shootings
were the shootings of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a bug protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University. -
Title IX passed
Title IX is a federal law enforce in the U.S. It states that "No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benedits of, or be subjected to discrimination inder any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." This helped women in American be less discriminated. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade was a well known case which the Supreme Court debated on the constituationality of laws that criminalized or restricted abortions.The Supreme Court ruled that a right to pricacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment exrended to a woman's decision to have an abortion. -
Nixon resigns
As mentioned earlier, Nixon was impeached/resigned due to the Watergate Scandal. This scandal involved him indirectly breaking into buildings for information and then lying about it. -
Ronald Reagan elected
was the 40th President of the U.S. In his first term, he survived an assassination attempt, spurred the War on Drugs, and fought public sector labor. -
Sandra Day O'Connor becaomes the first woman Supreme Court justice
Sandra Day O'Connor was a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. She was the first woman to serve in the Supreme Court and she was also awarded the highest civilian honor of the U.S. by Obama. -
ERA sent to states for ratification
The ERA was a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constituation meant to bestow equal rights amongst everyone. However, not everyone agreed with the amendment and many housewives across America disagreed because it would disadvantage them and cause them to be drafted into the military. -
Geraldine Ferraro runs for VP
Geraldine Ferraro was an American attorney, and Democratic Party plitician, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatices. She was also the first female vice presidential candidate representing a major American political party. -
Cold war ends
because of the friendship between Ronald Regan and Mikhail Gorbachev who became unlikely friends after they were forced to meet up to try and make things better for the noth of them. -
Bill Clinton elected
was the 42nd President of the U.S. and was known for presiding over "the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history." Also he cheated on Hillary. -
Clinton impeached
because he commited perjury and obstruction of justice involving the sex scandal which involved Monica Lewinsky. -
World trade center towers collapse
was one of the biggest tragedies in American history. it involved two planes, two towers, and a really big mess afterwards; no thanks to al-Qaeda. -
Barack Obama elected
Barack Obama was the 44th President of the U.S. and the first African-American president in the U.S. He is probably best known for the Obama Care flop that everyone hates or the time his wife showed off her muscles on the Ellen Show. My vote is for the wife. -
Hillary Clinton runs for President
Hillary Clinton was the First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She was Senator of New York from 2001 to 2009 and Secretart of State from 2009 to 2013. SHe was then the Democratic Party's nominee for the President of the U.S. iin the 2016 election.
