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The 15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
The completion of the Panama Canal
Completed in 1914, it made it easier for shipping & brought the local's economy up. Date of 1st use = August 15, 1914. -
U.S. entry into WWI
American entry into World War I was on April 1917, after 2½ years of efforts by President Woodrow Wilson to keep the United States neutral -
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. It was signed on 28 June 1919 by Germany and the Allied powers at the Palace of Versailles. -
The 19th Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - guaranteed women the right to vote. -
Hitler invades Poland
Known as the September Campaign or 1939, from the 1 September – 6 October 1939. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan. -
Executive order 9066
United States Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It reloctaed Japanese-Americans to internment camps. -
U.S. drops first Atomic bomb in Japan
On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. -
U.S. drops second Atomic bomb in Japan
Three days later, the United States launched a second, bigger atomic bomb against the city of Nagasaki. The device known as "Fat man", -
First U.S. military advisors were sent into Vietnam
In 1961, the U.S. had 50,000 troops based in Korea. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occured on August 28, 1963. -
John F. Kennedy assassinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. -
First combat troops sent to Vietnam
A U.S. Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion is deployed to Da Nang. President Johnson had ordered this deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase there. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, now lay sprawled on the balcony's floor, dead. -
Vietnam War ends
The Vietnam war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon. -
U.S. supports Afghanistan from invasion of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)
The aim of the U.S. was to drag the Soviet Union into the "Afghan trap" as U.S. -
U.N. begins bombing against Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
Iraq accuses Kuwait of stealing oil from Rumaylah oil field on Iraq-Kuwait border. On February 24, coalition ground forces begin their attack. -
U.N. resolution 678
The Council noted that despite all the United Nations efforts, Iraq continued to defy the Security Council. The UN passes resolution 678 stating that nations were then allowed the use of “all necessary means” to end the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and “approved” the launch of the first United Nations supported Persian Gulf War. -
U.N. declares victory in the Persian Gulf War
Saddam Hussein declared that the invasion was a response to overproduction of oil in Kuwait. -
Assassination of 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, by Gavrilo Princip.
