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20,000 BCE
The Hunters
They walked over the ice from Siberia to Alaska in search of food nd became the Native Americans -
Period: 20,000 BCE to
Melker and Tobbe US history
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Jan 1, 1000
Vikings travel to North America
A ship with Vikings travel over the Atlantic from Greenland to east canada -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus “discovers” America
Christopher Columbus travels to America in a search to find a new way to India with help from Spain -
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Seven year war
British vs the French -
Declaration of Independence
The colonies become a new country -
Abraham Lincoln became president
Abraham Lincoln is elected and is against slavery -
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The Great War
The First World War -
The Wall Street Stockmarket crash
The whole worlds economy becomes very low -
The second world war begins
Hitler invaldes poland and starts the second world war but USA isn’t involved yet -
The attack on pearl harbour
The Japanese who is a part of the axis powers make a surprise attack on the US naval base Pearl Harbour on Hawaii, dragging USA into the war -
Hiroshima
USA drops the first nuclear bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima -
Nagasaki
The second nuclear bomb detonates in Nagasaki making the Japanese surrender and the war is over -
The Cold War begins
After the Second World War tensions were high between capitalist USA and the communist Soviet Union -
The Korea war
Thanks to the Truman doctrine USA intervenes in the conflict between the north and South Korea supporting the south side against communism -
The Vietnam war
USA joins in another conflict again to stop the spread of communism from north Vietnam to the south but were defeated against the Vietcong and their Guerilla warfare and tactics and had to leave in 1973 -
the world trade center fall, aka 9/11
An attack on the world trade center in New York by the terrorist organization Al Quaida