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Industrialization :Alexander Gram Bell
Bell was very interested in the education of deaf people. This led him to invent a micrphone and then eventually a telephone. The telephone made it possible to talk to people long-distance and was a great success. -
Industrialization: Thomas Edison
Edison's first invention was the phonograph but his most famous invention was the lightbulb. The lightbulb has become some of the most used inventions today. The phonograph has been updated since then and is now used as an MP3 player. -
Industrialization: F. W. Woolworth
Woolworth was the founder of the F. W. Woolworth Co. 5 and 10 Cent Store. This shop sold factory-made goods and selled them for very low prices. It was the first store to go global. -
Imperialism: Territorial Growth
The industrial and territorial growth of the United States fostered expansion overseas. Greater involvement in the world set the stage for American participation in World War I and attempts to preserve post-war peace. -
Imperialism; America Enters
U-boat sinks the Lusitania. 1,198 civilians, including 128 Americans die. Boats of America continue to sink boats, they are shooting them down because Ameirica is aiding their enemies. America gets tired of it and they're hurting too because of the war so they enter. -
Imperialism: Zimermann Telegram
In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. On February 24 Britain released the Zimmerman telegram to Wilson, and news of the telegram was published widely in the American press on March 1. -
Prosperity: Stock Market Boom
Mass production and consumer boom. Hire purchase on the purchases of shares. It was a stock market boom and many realized this and bought many stocks. -
Cold War: Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
war set in China. The communist side was led by Mao Zedong and the nationalist side was led by Jiang Jieshi. The nationalist slowly took back all of China from the communists. Ended in 1949. -
Depression: Stock Market Crash
From 1920 to 1929 stocks more than quadrupled in value. Many investors became convinced that stocks were a sure thing and borrowed heavily to invest more money in the market. But in 1929, the bubble burst and stocks started down an even more precipitous cliff. -
New Deal: The New Deal
Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental projects and programs, knownas the New Deal, that aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. -
Isolationism: Lend-Lease Act
In July 1940, after Britain had sustained the loss of 11 destroyers to the German Navy over a 10-day period, newly elected British Prime Minister Winston Churchill requested help from President Roosevelt. Roosevelt responded by exchanging 50 destroyers for 99-year leases on British bases in the Caribbean and Newfoundland. As a result, a major foreign policy debate erupted over whether the United States should aid Great Britain or maintain strict neutrality. -
Isolationism: Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor which then leads to America joining the war.Torpedo planes attacked from west hitting the USS Helena, USS Utah and USS Raleigh, all on the west side of Ford Island. From the east, torpedo planes came in and hit the USS California, the USS Nevada, USS Oklahoma and West Virginia. -
Isolationism: Japanese Camps
Envy over economic success combined with distrust over cultural separateness and long-standing anti-Asian racism turned into disaster when the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing exclusion.In the next 6 months, approximately 122,000 men, women, and children were moved to camps. -
Cold War: Berlin Blockade
The Soviet blockades of Berlin were put in place because the institution of the Marshall Plan for European Recovery; the London Conferences of winter and spring of 1948; and the resultant London Program. They finally decided to end it in May 1949 due to the fact that they realized it wasn't going to work. -
Social Transformation: Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court Justice stated that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the "separate but equal" precedent set by the Supreme Court nearly 60 years earlier in Plessy v. Ferguson and served as a catalyst for the expanding civil rights movement during the decade of the 1950s. -
Cold War: Formation of the Warsaw Pact he alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps. It formalized the political division of the European continent and has taken place since World War II.
The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps. It formalized the political division of the European continent and has taken place since World War II. -
Social Transformation: Civil Rights Act
In a nationally televised address on June 6, 1963, President John F. Kennedy urged the nation to take action toward guaranteeing equal treatment of every American regardless of race. The act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels. It banned discriminatory practices in employment and ended segregation in public places such as swimming pools, libraries, and public schools. -
Social Transformation: Voting Rights Act
The legislation, which President Johnson signed into law the next day, outlawed literacy tests and provided for the appointment of Federal examiners (with the power to register qualified citizens to vote) in those jurisdictions that were "covered" according to a formula provided in the statute. Because the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the most significant statutory change in the relationship between the Federal and state governments in the area of voting since the Reconstruction period followin -
Post-ColdWar: Collapse of the Soviet Union
Formally ceased to exist on 26 December 1991 by declaration no. 142-H. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. 11 of the 12 soviet republics had signed the Alma-Ata Protocol formally establishing the CIS and declaring that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. -
Post-ColdWar: Society
One third of the world's population lived in Eastern Bloc countries, and the dismantling of the Iron Curtain caused their economies to open to the rest of the world. For the first time in history there was an economy that was not only truly global but thanks to modern communications instantaneous as well. -
Post-ColdWar: Technology
The end of the Cold War allowed many technologies that were formerly off limits to the public to be declassified. The most important of these was the Internet, which was created as ARPANET by the Pentagon as a system to keep in touch following an impending nuclear war.
