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Radical reconstruction
United States changed from a predominantly rural agrarian nation to an urban industrial one. -
Prohibition
the action of forbidding alcohol, especially by law. -
First sound movie
Steamboat Willie -
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
gang violence in Chicago reachedits bloody climax in a garage on the city’s NorthSide -
Black Tuesday
The stock market crashed -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff act
U.S import raised 50% -
Dust Bowl
During the 1930s the great planes suffered from deadly dust storms -
Revenue act
Peacetime tax increase -
Al Capone was conveniented
Capone had failed to pay his income taxes. Capone was convicted, and on October 24, 1931, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. -
21 Amendment
repealed Prohibitionin -
World war ll starts
Germany invades Poland -
Lend-lease act
USA supplies Britain with oil material food air crafts etc on a cash and carry basis -
Atlantic charter
President Roosevelt and Charter sign treaty of friendship -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked us navy at Pearl Harbor -
Battle of the Atlantic
Germany sank 87 U.S ships -
D-Day
D-day was an amphibious landing-soldiers going from sea to land -
The cold war
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II. -
The Truman doctrine
DescriptionThe Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
The Marshall plan
was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2018 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Kennedy assassination
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters President Richard Nixon's administration's subsequent attempt to cover up his involvement. -
Vietnam war agreement
The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
Cambodia
Communist Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia -
Afghanistan
December 25, 100000 soviet troops invaded Afghanistan as communist babrak karmal seized control of the government. -
Gorbachev comes to power
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was General Secretary of its governing Communist Party from 1985 until 1991. -
Berlin Wall falls
The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
