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The 15th Amendment
The 15th amendment allowed all blacks to vote. After they were givin freedom and citizin ship. -
Panama Canal
The panama canal was completed and made travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean easier and shorter to transport food, medicines, etc.. The canal costed millions of dollars and thousands of lifes to complete the Panama Canal. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Was assassinated by a group of people called the "black hand". This goup had come out of surbia. Was the beginning of WWI -
World War 1
The United States entered the World War I on April 1917, after the effort of keeping the U.S nuetral for 2 years President Woodrow Wilson decided to enter. -
Treaty of Versailles
The treaty of Versailles ended world war one and stated that germany would have to repay all of the money that costed the allies during the war and eventually bankrupt germany. -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th amendment was passed by congress after women fought for years. The 19th ammendment gave women the right to vote. -
Hitler invades Poland
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
Pearl harbor was a naval base on hawaii. After japanese bombed the United States, the United States had no choice but to join the war. -
Executive order 9066
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U.S. drops first Atomic bomb in Japan
Japan was the first counrty to recieve the world's first atomic bomb and was dropped over the city of Hiroshima. -
U.S. drops second bomb on Japan
Three days after the first atomic bomb droped on Japan, the United States launched a second and larger atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. -
March on Washington
Martin L. King led an audience of 250,000 singing "We Shall Overcome" from the Mall in Washington D.C. to the Lincoln Memorial. This was the largest civil rights demonstration the country had ever seen.To put an end to segregation, and support Kennedy's civil rights bill. -
John F. Kennedy
The 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. -
First U.S. military advisors were sent into Vietnam
after the advisers were sent in the United States decided they would send in troops to end communism. -
First combat troops sent to Vietnam
America decided we needed to join the fight. The United States sent in american soldiers in an attempt to end communism but in the end american soldiers attempts were all in vain. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4, 1968, Martin L. King Jr. was assassinated -
Vietnam War ends
After fighting for many years The United Sates realized there was no chance of winning. The Amercian Army slowly began to pull out and lead veitnam to become comunist once again. -
U.S. supports Afghanistan from invasion of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)
The soviet union was asked to join the civil war by the Mujahideen.The U.S. supplied the afghans with military weapons even though it was not direct. -
U.N. begins bombing against Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing oil from Rumaylah and the U.N. started to bomb Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait and protect their deal with kuwait of oil. -
U.N. resolution 678
The U.N. passes the Resolution 678 announcing a withdraw deadline for Iraq from Kuwait. -
U.N. declares victory in the Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War started when iraq invaded kuwait.The U.S attacked first with air strikes then later attacked with ground forces.
