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Spanish-American War( April 1898 – August 1898)
The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. -
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Theodore Roosevelt(1858-1919)
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. -
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed and co-produced by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish -
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg(1915-1953)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed under the auspices of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. -
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Red Scare
A "Red Scare" 1917-1920 is the promotion by a state or society of widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism -
Flappers
a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. -
The League of Nations(10 January 1920)
intergovernmental organization founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
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Malcolm X(1925-1965)
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister, racist and human rights activist. -
The Great Gatsby (Novel)(April 10, 1925)
a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922 -
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Martin Luther King, Jr(1929-1968)
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba -
Medicare and Medicaid(1965)
Medicare is a federal program that provides health coverage if you are 65 or older or have Social Security -
Watergate (June 17, 1972)
a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972 -
Jimmy Carter’s Energy Crisis(1979)
oil crisis or oil shock occurred in the United States due to decreased oil output in the wake of the Iranian Revolution -
Reaganomics(1980s)
the economic policies of the former US president Ronald Reagan, associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity. -
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Iran-Contra Scandal(Aug 20, 1985 – Mar 4, 1987)
The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
September 11, 2001
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.