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Roosevelt's Corallary
An addition the Monroe Doctrine asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country. -
Scopes-Monkey Trial
The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes which the substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. High school teacher John Thomas Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution instead of the divine creation of man. The trial was the first to be broadcasted on live radio. -
Herbert Hoover Elected
He was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. -
Stock Market to start the Great Depression
The stock market crash of 1929 was not the sole cause of the Great Depression, but it did act to accelerate the global economic collapse of which it was also a symptom. By 1933, nearly half of America's banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people, or 30 percent of the workforce. -
FDR elected
He was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
FDR begins fireside chats
One secret to Roosevelt's success was his "fireside chats," thirty speeches he gave over the radio (and later TV) during his presidency. In his fireside chats, FDR spoke directly to the American people as if they were close friends. -
Eleanor Roosevelt becomes First Lady
Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady at the time for her outspokenness, particularly her stance on racial issues. She was the first presidential spouse to hold regular press conferences, write a daily newspaper column, write a monthly magazine column, host a weekly radio show, and speak at a national party convention. On a few occasions, she publicly disagreed with her husband's policies. -
Rosie the Riveter image first used
"We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost worker morale. The poster was very little seen during World War II. -
Vietnam draft begins
The Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950. -
Cold War begins
It was the great rivalry between the communist Soviet Union and its allies against the United States and its Western allies that began after World War II to prove who was better technologically. -
JFK elected
JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
JFK assasination
JFK was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
The Feminine Mystique is published
The book The Feminine Mystique by Friedan broke new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles. She also helped advance the women's rights movement as one of the founders of the National Organization for Women. -
Griswold v. CT
This is a landmark case in the United States in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution, through the Bill of Rights, implies a fundamental right to privacy. The case involved a Connecticut "Comstock law" that prohibited any person from using "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception" -
NOW formed
With 500,000 members and 550 chapters in all 50 states, NOW is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been "to take action" to bring about equality for all women. -
Richard Nixon elected
Former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Woodstock
A music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000 where 32 acts performed it was considered "Three Days of Peace and Music". -
Nixon's revised Philadelphia Plan implemented
The plan required federal contractors to meet certain goals for the hiring of minority employees by specific dates in order to combat institutionalized discrimination on the part of specific skilled building trades unions. The plan was quickly extended to other cities. -
Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. -
Title IX passed
In 1972 Congress passed the Educational Amendments. One section of this law, Title IX, prohibits discrimination against girls and women in federally-funded education, including in athletics programs. -
Roe v. Wade
This is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. The Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's interests in regulating abortions: protecting women's health and protecting the potentiality of human life. -
Nixon resigns
The Watergate scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support, so he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. -
Sandra Day O'Connor Becomes first woman Supreme Court justice
Sandra Day O'Connor was elected to two terms in the Arizona state senate. In 1981, Ronald Reagan nominated her to the U.S. Supreme Court. She received unanimous Senate approval, and made history as the first woman justice to serve on the nation's highest court. -
Ronald Reagan elected
He was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. -
ERA sent to the states of ratification
The ERA in the States. The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress on March 22, 1972 and sent to the states for ratification. In order to be added to the Constitution, it needed approval by legislatures in three-fourths (38) of the 50 states. -
Geraldine Ferraro runs for VP
Former vice president and presidential candidate Walter Mondale, seen as an underdog, selected Ferraro to be his running mate in the upcoming election. Ferraro became the only Italian American to be a major-party national nominee in addition to being the first woman. -
Cold war ends
After Ronald Reagan became friends with the Russian leader it ended, and it was basically a tie. -
Bill Clinto elected
the 52nd quadrennial presidential election and democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. -
Clinton impeached
He was impeached after being proven guilty of two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice and these charges stemmed from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Clinton. -
World Trade Center Towers collapse
A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. -
Barack Obama elected
Obama defeated the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, making him the President-elect and the first African American elected President. -
Hillary Clinton runs for president
In the 2016 Democratic primary election was Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. She received the most support from middle aged and older voters, and from black, Latino, and older female voters. She focused her platform on several issues, including expanding racial, LGBT, and women's rights, raising wages and ensuring equal pay for women, and improving healthcare. She lost to Trump.
