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Aug 24, 1492
Columbus's Four Voyages
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Aug 24, 1519
Cortez Congquers Mexico
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Roanoke Island (Carolinas) Colonoy Fails
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Jamestown, VA, founed
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First Africans arrive in VA
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Virgina House of Burgesses
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Pilgrims found Plymouth, MA
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Puritan migration to Massachusetts
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Calverts found Maryland
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Pequot Indian War
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Anne Hutchinson convicted of heresy
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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English Civil War
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First Navagation Act (mercantilism)
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English conquer New Netherlands (New York)
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King Philip’s (Metacomet’s) War (Massachusetts)
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Bacon’s Rebellion (Virginia)
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Pennsylvania settled
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English Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights
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Massachusetts becomes royal colony
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Salem witch hunts
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Queen Anne’s War
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England, Wales, and Scotland unite into the United Kingdom(Great Britain)
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George I’s reign
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George II’s reign
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Georgia founded
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First Great Awakening
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Stamp Act
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Boston Massacre
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Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts; First Continental Congress
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Battles of Lexington and Concord; Washington appointed commander in chief
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Declaration of Independence; states adopt new constitutions
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Paine’s Common Sense; Declaration of Independence
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Articles of Confederation; Battle of Saratoga
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Articles of Confederation (Congress adopts, but states do not finish ratifying until 1781); Articlesof Confederation ratified; Congress establishes Bank of North America
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French Alliance
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Articles of Confederation ratified; Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris
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Treaty of Paris; Newburgh Conspiracy
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Ordinance of 1784
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Jay-Gardoqui Treaty rejected; Virginia Religious Freedom Act; Shays’ Rebellion; IndianOrdinance of 1786; Annapolis Convention
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Constitutional Convention; Northwest Ordinance; the Federalist Papers
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Constitution ratified by all states except Rhode Island and North Carolina
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New government forms
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Washington elected; new government forms; Congress meets; French Revolution begins
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Hamilton issues the Report on Public Credit
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First Bank of United States (BUS) established
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Washington begins second term; Proclamation of Neutrality; cotton gin patented
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Whiskey Rebellion; Battle of Fallen Timbers
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Jay’s Treaty; Pinckney’s Treaty
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Washington’s Farewell Address; John Adams elected president
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X, Y, Z Affair; Quasi War with France; Alien and Sedition Acts; Virginia and KentuckyResolutions
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Washington, D. C., becomes national capital
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Congress narrowly selects Jefferson president; Adams appoints John Marshall and “midnightjudges”
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Congress recalls most “midnight judges”
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Marbury v. Madison; Louisiana Purchase; Lewis and Clark expedition
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Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton; Jefferson reelected
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British seize American ships
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Embargo Act; Burr acquitted of treason
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African slave trade ends; James Madison elected president
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Congress boycotts British and French trade
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Fletcher v. Peck
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Battle of Tippecanoe; BUS charter expires; first steamboat on Ohio and Mississippi rivers
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United States and Britain engage in War of 1812; Madison reelected
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Battles of Lake Erie and Thames
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British burn Washington, D. C.; Battle of Lake Champlain/Plattsburgh; Hartford Convention;Treaty of Ghent ends war
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Battle of New Orleans
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Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812
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James Monroe elected president
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Andrew Jackson seizes Florida from Spain and the Seminoles
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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Missouri Compromises
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Adams-Onis Treaty
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Monroe Doctrine; American Fur Company establishes Fort Union on Missouri River
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John Quincy Adams defeats Jackson in controversial election
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Tariff of Abominations; Jackson defeats Adams
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William Lloyd Garrison publishes first issue of The Libertator
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Nullification Crisis; Worster v. Georgia
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Texas Independence; Martin Van Buren elected president
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Panic of 1837
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William Henry Harrison elected president; Harrison dies; John Tyler assumes presidency
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Amistad decision: Supreme Court frees African slave mutineers
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First large Oregon Trail wagon train
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James K. Polk pledges to annex both Texas and Oregon Territory; Polk elected president
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Texas annexation
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Mexican-American War
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Mormon exodus to Utah
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; annexation of Oregon Territory and Southwest(California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah); Zachary Taylor elected president
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Zachary Taylor elected president
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Mexican War ends; New Mexico Territory, California ceded to United States
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Gold discovered in California
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Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill, California Gold Rush begins
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Compromise of 1850; California admitted as a free state; Fugitive Slave Law passed; Taylor dies inoffice; Millard Fillmore becomes president
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Compromise of 1850 admits California as a state
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Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Franklin Pierce elected president
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Gadsden Purchase
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Gadsden Purchase completes map of lower continental United States
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Kansas-Nebraska Act; formation of Anti-Nebraska Party (later called Republican Party)
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James Buchanan elected president; John C. Fremont, Republican, comes within three states ofcarrying election with only northern votes.
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Butterfield Overland Stage provides passenger and mail route to California
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Comstock Lode discovered
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Pony Express begins operations
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Civil War begins
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Homestead Act; Morrill Act; Plains Indian wars begin
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Sand Creek massacre
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Cattle Kingdom reaches its apex
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Fetterman massacre
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Grange movement begins
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Transcontinental railroads join at Promontory, Utah
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Custer massacre
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Edmunds Act
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Chief Joseph and Nez Percé surrender
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Dawes Severalty Act
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Wounded Knee massacre
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Frederick Jackson Turner declares frontier closed
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Alaskan gold rush
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McKinley elected
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Spanish-American War; Hawaii annexed; Open Door Note
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McKinley reelected
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McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
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Northern Securities suit; Newlands Reclamation Act
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Acquisition of Panama Canal Zone; Roosevelt Corollary delivered
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Roosevelt elected president
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Taft elected president
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Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
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Standard Oil Supreme Court Decision
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Roosevelt forms Bull Moose/Progressive Party; Wilson elected president
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Woodrow Wilson elected president
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Federal Reserve Act passed; Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) passed; Seventeenth Amendment(direct election of U.S. senators) passed
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World War I breaks out in Europe; revolution in Mexico leads to landing of U.S. troops at VeraCruz; Clayton Act passed
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Sinking of the Lusitania prompts sharp response from United States to Germany
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Woodrow Wilson reelected; U.S. forces under General John Pershing chase Pancho Villa inMexico
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Zimmerman telegram; United States declares war on Germany and the Central Powers;Noncommunist revolution in Russia (March) followed by a communist revolution in Russia(October)
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American forces in key battles at Belleau Wood, the Ardennes; Armistice (November eleventh)
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Versailles peace conference; Wilson offers Fourteen Points; Versailles Treaty; Lodge reservationsto treaty introduced in the Senate; Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) ratified
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Wilson suffers stroke; Nineteenth Amendment (Woman suffrage) ratified; U.S. economy entersrecession
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Warren Harding elected president
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Washington Conference
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Harding dies in office; Calvin Coolidge assumes presidency
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Upheaval in Germany; near collapse of Weimar Republic
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Coolidge reelected
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Locarno Pact
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Kellogg-Briand Treaty; Herbert Hoover elected president
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Stock market crash
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff passes Congress; Reconstruction Finance Corporation started
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Bank collapse; money supply contracts by one third
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Franklin Roosevelt elected president
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Japanese aggression in China
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The Hundred Days; New Deal legislation passed; Bank Holiday; Prohibition repealed; FDR takesnation off gold standard; National Industrial Recovery Act; Adolf Hitler named Chancellor inGermany
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The Hundred Days; New Deal legislation passed; Bank Holiday; Prohibition repealed; FDR takesnation off gold standard; National Industrial Recovery Act; Adolf Hitler named Chancellor inGermany
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Securities and Exchange Commission established; temporary minimum wage law passed
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Glass-Steagall Act; Wagner Act; Works Progress Administration; Social Security program created;Neutrality Act passed
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Roosevelt reelected
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Rape of Nanking by Japanese troops; U.S. gunboat Panay sunk
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German expansion in Czechoslovakia; U.S. unemployment soars again
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“Golden year” for American cinema; Hitler invades Poland, starting World War II
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Hitler invades Poland, and World War II begins in Europe
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Roosevelt reelected
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Germany defeats French and British forces in France; France surrenders and is occupied; Norwayoccupied; Battle of Britain
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Lend-Lease Act passed; Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; United States declares war on Axis powers
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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United States and Britain invade North Africa; Jimmy Doolittle bombs Tokyo (February); Battlesof Coral Sea (May) and Midway (June)
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Allies begin bombing Europe, defeat the Afrika Korps at the battle of Kasserine Pass (February),and invade Sicily and Italy (July)
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Invasion of France (June sixth); Paris liberated (August); Battle of the Bulge (December); invasionof the Philippines and Battle of Leyte Gulf (October)
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Harry Truman ascends to the U.S. presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Germany surrenders (May); landings on Iwo Jima and Okinawa (March-June); Trinity test ofatomic bomb (July); atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August sixth and ninth); Japansurrenders (August twelfth)
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“Iron Curtain” speech by Winston Churchill, Cold War begins
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Republicans capture both the House and Senate in midterm elections
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Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization founded
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Truman Doctrine implemented; cold war begins; Marshall Plan instituted; Taft-Hartley Act
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Berlin airlift; Truman reelected
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NATO formed; Communists take control of China
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Alger Hiss convicted; Korean War begins
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Dwight D. Eisenhower elected
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Korean War ends
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Brown v. Board of Education
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SEATO formed
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Soviets crush Hungarian uprising; Eisenhower reelected
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Eisenhower orders federal troops to desegregate Little Rock High School; Soviets launch Sputnik
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Castro captures Cuba
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John F. Kennedy elected president
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Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba; Soviet Union erects Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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John F. Kennedy assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson assumes presidency
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Johnson introduces Great Society legislation; Civil Rights Act passed; Tonkin Gulf Resolution;Ronald Reagan campaigns for Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign; Johnson defeatsGoldwater
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Johnson sends combat troops to Vietnam
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated; Richard Nixon elected president
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United States lands man on the moon
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Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution; wage and price controls
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Nixon visits China; Watergate break-in; Nixon reelected
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Nixon withdraws last of American troops from Vietnam; Roe v. Wade case decided
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OPEC raises oil prices; oil crisis
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War Powers Act passed by Congress;busing battles begin in Boston
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Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford assumes the presidency
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Vietnam overrun by North Vietnamese; Communist Pol Pot regime overruns Cambodia; BASICcomputer language invented by Bill Gates
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Jimmy Carter elected president; Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak market first personal computers
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Camp David Accords; Iranians storm U.S. embassy in Tehran, take American hostages
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Soviets invade Afghanistan; U.S. Olympic ice hockey team wins the gold medal; Ronald Reaganelected president
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Reagan fires air traffic controllers; Reagan shot, nearly killed by John Hinckley; Congress passesReaganomics tax cuts; Iranian hostages freed
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Economic recovery begins; “Star Wars” speech; marine barracks in Lebanon blown up; Soviets putshort-range missiles in western USSR aimed at Europe
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Geneva conference with Reagan and Gorbachev
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Iran-contra affair
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Reagan and British prime minister Margaret Thatcher announce plan to install short-range missilesin Europe in response to Soviet SS-20s; “freeze movement” gains momentum
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Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty signed