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The 15th Amendment
This is the amendment to the constitution giving African-American males the right to vote. Although they had the right, many Jim Crow laws and other pressures made African-American voters ineligible or kept them out of votes for nearly 100 years. In 1965 the voting rights act was passed and solved many of these problems. -
The Panama canal is completed
Theodore Roosevelt commissioned the Panama Canal and he considered the canal his greatest acheivement. It cut the time to get cross from the pacific to the atlantic by months. Originally the United States was exempt the fees for the passage. -
The United States Entry into World War One
The United States were originally opposed to entering world war one, the two main reasons being that America is a land of Immigrants and he thought that it would create friction with some citizens, and the U.S. was selling so much stuff that it would be great to keep making money. When the germans kept sinking U.S. Merchant ships and then sank the British passenger ship, the Lusitania, that had 102 american citizens, Woodrow Wilson decided it was worth picking a side. -
The higher than 18 but lower than 20th ammendment
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. It was ratified in 1920 but wasn't in effect until 1921. Woodrow Wilson, who was president at the time, did not support granting women rights, but it was passed anyways. -
Hitler invades Poland
Hitler was able to come to power because of the desolation of germany caused by the treaty of Versaille. Many people consider Hitlers invasion of Poland the start of WWII. Before they were invaded Poland asked the British to defend them should they be attacked, and due to many alliences, this started another world war. -
Eisenhower sends advisors to Vietnam
Before U.S. armed forces became involved in Vietnam the U.S. supported France's control of vietnam financially. The first of the troops sent over to vietnam were only advisors and not intended to see combat. Eisenhower proposed the domino theory, which basically said that without U.S. intervention communism would spread to many nations, which is why he had so much interest in 'Nam. -
The Assassination of President Kennedy
JFK was assassinated while in Texas while -
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The United States Supports Afghanistan against U.S.S.R. Invasion
The United States busied themselves with arming rebel groups to keep the upper hand in the cold war. Thankfully the government had the foresight to arm groups that like america, like Al Qaeda(oh, wait). The rebels successfully pushed out the invaders. This is another example of groups that are only a threat to america after america has armed them. -
The Persian Gulf War
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait after the Iraq-Iran war, because Iraq was in serrious debt, and Kuwait had an abundance of oil. Then a bunch of bureaucrats got together at the U.N. and wrote him a letter saying everyone would be super angry if he didn't remove forces from kuwait by January of 1991(UN resolution 678). When they didn't, George Bush senior said that aggression would not stand, so he blew up a buch of brown people for a month and then the war was over.