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Cuban Rebellion
Throughout the Nineteenth Century, Cubans sought to wrest more self-government from the deteriorating Spanish empire. Several small failed rebellions and colonial reform did not squelch this desire. The huge dam of Spanish colonial rule held back the surging river of Cuban freedom. -
Boxer Rebellion in China
The Boxer Rebellion, or more properly Boxer Uprising, was a violent anti-foreign, anti-Christian movement by the %u201CBoxers United in Righteousness,%u201D Yihe tuan or Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists in China. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt served as president to the U.S. from 1901-1909. He was vice president before that under McKinley. He was a republican and died on January 6, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York. -
Assassination of McKinley
When U.S. President William McKinley wen on a tour of the Pan-American Esposition in Buffalo, New York a mentally ill anarchist named Leon Czolgosz shot him as he greeted the public. -
Newlands National Reclamation Act
This act promoted the irrigation of southwestern lands. Over the next few years, irrigation turnes millions of acres of desert into fertile farmland accross Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The act was passed in 1882, renewed in 1892 and 1902 and was then made permanent. It prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country but did not prevent entry by hose who had previously extablished residence or who had family already living in the U.S. -
Niagara Movement
W.E.B. Du Bois was an African American who accomplised a lot. He was the first to earn a Ph.D. and taught economics, history, and sociology. In 1905 he helped foung the Niagara Movement which was a group that called for full civil liberties, an end to racial discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood. -
Japan defeats Russia
The Russo-Japanese war was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. It started Feb. 10, 1904. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This act was for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Gentlemen's Agreement
In 1906 the San Francisco school board suled that all Chinese, Japanese, and Korean children should attend seprate schol. The Japanese government claimes that it violated an 1894 treaty that gave Japanese citizens the right to enter the U.S. freely. In response, Roosevelt reached a compromise with Japanese officials in 1907. It was named the Gentlemen's Agreement because it was not an official government document. The compromise called on San Francisco to end its school segregation and Japan to -
The NAACP
Mary White Ovingtonhelped organize a national confrence on the "Negro Question" to be held on Lincon's birthday. Niagara Movement leaders attended and this event marked the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). By 1914 it had 50 branches and 6,000 members. -
Angel Island
The federal government built an immigration center n Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. There iimmigrants underwnet a lengthy examination. -
William Howard Taft
He was the 27th president of the U.S. elected in 1912. He was in the republican party. -
The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a man-made canal in Panama which joins the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Although the concept of a canal near Panama dates back to the early 16th century, the first attempt to construct a canal began in 1880 under French leadership. The project of building a canal was attempted and completed by the United States in the early 1900s, with the canal opening in 1914. -
World War 1
Started in Europe and came to be the first world war. It lasted 5 years. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip. -
The Russian Revolution
It was a series of popular revolutions in Russia, and the events surrounding them. These revolutions had the effect of completely changing the nature of society within the Russian Empire and transforming the Russian state, which ultimately led to the replacement of the old Tsarist autocracy with the Soviet Union. -
America's Entry
America entered WW1. The Germans on January 9th, 1917, was the primary issue that caused Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2nd. Four days later, America joined World War One on the side of the Allies. -
Germany Surrenders
The German Instrument of Surrender was the legal instrument by which the High Command of the German Armed Forces surrendered simultaneously to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force and to the Soviet High Command at the end of World War II in Europe. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was a supranational organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919%u20131920. The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global quality of life. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Prohibition
Prohibition of all alcoholic beverages became the law of the land when the 18th amendments took affect on Jan. 6, 1920. It was ignored by most. Prohibition sharpened the contrast between urban and rural moral values during the 1920's -
Women rights
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granting women the vote is ratified. -
Harding elected President
He was the 29th president of the U.S. serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. -
Reparations
A Reparations Commission ruled that Germany owed the Allies $33 billion, an amount far beyond its ability to pay. -
U.S. declares formal end to war
On May 20, 1920, Congress voted to declare the war offically over, Steadfast to his principles, Wilson voted for it. Finally, on July 2, 1921, another joint resolution to end the war passed. Congress ratified seperate peace treatied with Germany, Austria, and Hungary the October. -
Benito Mussiolini
Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy. He led the National Fascist Party. -
Harding Dies; Coolidge takes office
Harding died from a heart attack on August 2, 1923 age 57. John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was vice president at this time, so he took office from 1923 to 1929. He was a republican. -
President Hoover elected
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the U.S. elected in 1928, serving until 1933. -
Black Thursday
After the peak in Septemberm stock prices fell slowly. Some brokers began to call in loans, but others continued to lend even more. The stock market closed on Wednesday, October 23 and the Dow Jones average had dropped 21 points in an hour. On the next day worried investors began to sell. -
Black Tuesday
With all the madness for Black Thursday, some bankers pulled their money together to by stock. This stabalized prices for only a few days. On Monday they were falling again. Investors all over the country were getting their money out of the stock. On Black Tuesday, a record 16.4 million shares were sold. -
Dust Bowl
Farmers were aready suffering enough with the low food prices and then they were hit with a disaster! This one was environmental, dust storms and droughts. They had to sell their farms or see them get taken away. -
Al Capone Convicted
Al Capone, a gangster that did many illegal things was finally convicted! He was convicted of tax envasion and sent to prison, not even close to what he could have been convicted for. -
RFC
Hoover set up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which gave government credit to banks so that they could extend loans. The RFC reflected the theory that prosperity at the top would help the economy as a whole. It seemed to many people that the government was helping bankers while ordinary people went starving. -
Roosevelt elected
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was elected the 32nd president of the U.S. He served from 1933-1945. -
The New Deal
President Hoover had an idea! It was The New Deal. The New Deal was a program of relief, recovery, and refor aimed at combating problems caused by the Great Depression. Some programs that he created were NIRA and AAA. -
Adolf Hitler
Hitler became the dictator of Germany. He led the Nazi Party. He promised to stabalized the country, rebuild the economy, and restore the empire that had been lost in WW1 -
21st Amendment repeals prohibition
14 years after passing the 18th amendment banning the same of alcoholic beverages, congress passed the 21st amendment, repealing Prohibition. Some people regretted the end of the dan, but most welcomed repeal as an end to a failed social experiment and as a curb on gangsters who profited from bootlegging. -
The Second New Deal
FDR felt the need for more. He launched a new, even bolder burst of legislative activity. The Second New Deal included more social welfare benefits, stricter controls over business, stronger support for unions, and higher taxes on the rich. -
Europe Goes To War
German troops moved into the Rhineland, a region in which they were baned from and attacked. -
The Court-Packing Scheme
Throughout the New Deal the Supreme Court had caused FDR his greatest frustration. He proposed a major court reform bill. FDR wanted to pack the Court with judged favorable to the New Deal. He was forsed to withdraw his reform bill, but he did wind up with it passed in the end. -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, as it was called by the Imperial General Headquarters) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It was intended as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia against Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States. The attack consisted of two aerial attack waves totaling 353 aircraft. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought between May 4 %u2013 May 8, 1942, with most of the action occurring on May 7 and May 8, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Allied forces of the United States Navy and the Royal Australian Navy. -
Battle of Guam
The Battle of Guam (July 21-August 8, 1944) was the American capture of the Japanese held island of Guam (in the Mariana Islands) during the Pacific campaign of World War II. -
Atomic Bombing on Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. After six months of intense fire-bombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945 , followed on August 9 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki.
