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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus discovers the "New Word"
Christopher Columbus wanted to find a shorter route to China, but ended up going to Cuba then the Americas. -
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French and Indian War
It was a battle between France and Great Britain. Great Britain won the battle. -
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American Revolutionary War
Was a war between the 13 American Colonies and Great Britain. -
The Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies want to be independent states, and no longer want to be part of Great Britian. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson -
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War of 1812
America declared war with Great Britain because they wanted to invade and capture North America. -
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Mexican-American War
Was a war about America trying to capture some parts of Mexico. Like the Annexation of Texas and all South-western part of North America. -
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American Civil War
This war was the Union fighting the Confederacy. It was about the Southern States did not want to end slavery. -
American Football
The first game ever played was in Nov 6, 1863. This sport regularly named football. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
This assassination was planned out and the person responsible for murder was John Booth. This happened shortly after the Civil War. -
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World War I
This war was between the Allies and the Central Powers of the World which the main battlefield was in Europe. -
Women's suffrage
The women in the US felt unequal with men because they could not vote or run for office. -
The Great Deppression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
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World War II
This was the second global war which started with Adolf Hitler and his military killing most of all Jews in Germany then soon after other countries. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. The next day, United States declared war on Japan and that is the way World War II started. -
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Cold War
Was primarily the Soviet Union and the US that was involved after WWII. It was really not a war, it was just great conflict and tension between the Allies and the Axes. -
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Korean War
The war was based on the political split of Korea. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
The Civil Rights Movement
When MLK Jr. was helping the African Americans get their freedom from racism. -
Feminism
People wanted women to have more rights. -
Assassination of JFK
The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30pm in Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade.Then later, the government realized that Lee Harvey Oswald was sent from the Soviet Union to assassinate JFK. -
The Assassination of MLK Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., a prominent American Civil Rights leader and, according to a Gallup poll conducted among citizens of the United States in 2000 was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. -
9/11
The September 11 attacks were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane. The cost of damage was $81 billion. -
Barrack Obama
The first african american to get elected to become the 41st President of the United States Of America. -
Earthquake in Haiti
An estimated three million people were affected by the quake, the Haitian government reported that an estimated 230,000 people had died, 300,000 had been injured and 1,000,000 made homeless.
