time line

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    American Civil War

  • homestead act

    homestead act
    they gave free land the great plains because urban cities were over populating
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments
  • transcontinental railroads completed

    transcontinental railroads completed
    they finished the railroads
  • Industialization Begins to Boom

    Industialization Begins to Boom
    the industrie companys stared too emerge soo alot of jobs were availible
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
  • Telephone Invented

    Telephone Invented
  • Reconstruction Ends

    Reconstruction Ends
  • Light Bulb Invented

    Light Bulb Invented
    the very first light bulb was invented
  • Third Wave of Immigration

    Third Wave of Immigration
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    they didnt want the chinese in the west because they were taking all the jobs
  • Pendleton Act

    Pendleton Act
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act
    the goverment felt bad for taking there land soo they
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
  • Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

    Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush
    people stared too move to alaska too look for gold
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act
  • How The Other Half Lives

  • Influence of Sea Power Upon History

    Influence of Sea Power Upon History
    In 1890, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the president of the United States Naval War College, published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire
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    Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

  • Homestead Steel Labor Strike

    Homestead Steel Labor Strike
  • Pullman Labor Strike

    Pullman Labor Strike
  • Annexation of Hawaii

  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    Spanish-American War definition. A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba. ... The United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in the war and gained temporary control over Cuba.
  • Open Door Policy

    Open Door Policy
    The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers.
  • Assassination of President McKinley

    Assassination of President McKinley
    President McKinley greeting Well-Wishers at a reception in the Temple of Music on September 6, 1901, just minutes before he was shot. Scene of the shooting inside the Temple of Music. The spot where McKinley was shot is marked with an X, near the bottom-right corner of the picture
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    Theodore Roosevelt

    republic party and proggressive era
    trust busters wanted to protect the enviorment
  • Wright Brother’s Airplane

  • Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins

  • The jungle

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act
    FOOD HAD TOO BE GOOD CONDITIONS
  • Model-T

  • NAACP

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    William Howard

    republican
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment
    collected taxes
  • Federal Reserve Act

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    Woodrow Wilson

    wins because the other too split up federal reserve act
    national park
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment
    senators were elected by the people in each state
  • Assissination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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    World War I

  • National Parks System

  • 18th Amendment

    no alchohal
  • 19th Amendment

    womans can vote now
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance
  • President Harding’s Return to Normalcy

    President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
    Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
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    Roaring Twenties

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    n a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration. Synonyms: Teapot Dome Example of: outrage, scandal. a disgraceful event.
  • Joseph Stalin Leads USSR

    Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
  • Scopes “Monkey” Trial

    Scopes “Monkey” Trial
  • Mein Kampf published

    Mein Kampf published
  • Charles Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight

    5:22pm - The Spirit of St. Louis touches down at the Le Bourget Aerodrome, Paris, France. Local time: 10:22pm. Total flight time: 33 hours, 30 minutes, 29.8 seconds. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours
  • St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

  • Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”

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    Great Depression

  • Hoovervilles

    Hoovervilles
    A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it.
  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    Smoot-Hawley Tariff
    otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
  • 100, 000 Banks Have Failed

  • Agriculture Adjustment Administration

    Agriculture Adjustment Administration
    The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The Government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  • Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
    Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933 by Paul von Hindenburg. ... On 30 April 1945, when Hitler committed suicide
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

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    New Deal Programs

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    The Holocaust

    germans killed alot of jews
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl
  • Social Security Administration

  • Rape of Nanjing

    Rape of Nanjing
    they raped people
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Definition of Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht: Also known as The Night of the Broken Glass. On this night, November 9, 1938, almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps.
  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler invades Poland
    The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign (Kampania wrześniowa) or the 1939 Defensive War (Wojna obronna 1939 roku), and in Germany as the Poland Campaign (Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss ("Case White"), was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig,
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    World War II

  • German Blitzkrieg attacks

  • Pearl Harbor

  • Tuskegee Airmen

    Tuskegee Airmen
    The Tuskegee Airmen /tʌsˈkiːɡiː/ is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombar
  • Navajo Code Talkers

    Navajo Code Talkers
    The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066
    Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March
  • Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)

    took over back france
  • GI Bill

    GI Bill
    A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.
  • Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

    Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
    On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area. Followed by the bombing of Nagasaki, on August 9, this show of Allied strength hastened the surrender of Japan in World War II
  • Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day

  • Liberation of Concentration Camps

  • Victory in Europe (VE) Day

  • United Nations (UN) Formed

    United Nations (UN) Formed
    Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. The Senate approved the UN Charter on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2. The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945, after 29 nations had ratified the Charter.
  • Germany Divided

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    Harry S. Truman

  • Nuremberg Trials

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    Baby Boom

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey.
  • Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China

    Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
    Mao adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927. ... On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a single-party state controlled by the CPC.
  • 22nd Amendment

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    The Cold War

  • Marshall Plan

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    flew over supplies to west berlin
  • Arab-Israeli War Begins

    Arab-Israeli War Begins
    The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, or the First Arab–Israeli War, was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states over the control of Palestine, forming the second stage of the 1948 Palestine war. There had been tension and conflict between the Arabs and the Jews, and between each of them
  • NATO Formed

    NATO Formed
    european countries
  • Kim Il-sung invades South Korea

    Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
    In December 1945, the Soviets installed Kim as chairman of the North Korean branch of the Korean Communist Party. ... Prior to Kim's invasion of the South in 1950, which triggered the Korean War, Joseph Stalin equipped the KPA with modern, Soviet-built heavy tanks, trucks, artillery, and small arms.
  • UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China

    UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
    The allied forces then began a devastating counterattack to the north that within two months had conquered almost all of North Korea. On November 23—Thanksgiving Day—the Americans were jubilant, some enjoying actual turkey dinners within view of the Yalu River, which marked the border with China
  • Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War

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    Korean War

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    1950s Prosperity

  • Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution

    Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
    wife and husban killed for belive of communisim
  • Armistice Signed

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Period: to

    Warren Court

  • The Great Society

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Hernandez v. Texas
    Pete Hernandez, an agricultural worker, was indicted for the murder of Joe Espinoza by an all-Anglo (white) grand jury in Jackson County, Texas. Claiming that Mexican-Americans were barred from the jury commission that selected juries, and from petit juries, Hernandez' attorneys tried to quash the indictment.
  • Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam

    Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
    Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent them back to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early 1960s. The NLF called for southern Vietnamese to "overthrow the camouflaged colonial regime of the American imperialists" and to make "efforts toward the peaceful unification". The PLAF's best-known
  • Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam

    Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
    When Japan formally surrendered to the Allies on September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh felt emboldened enough to proclaim the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam. French forces seized southern Vietnam and opened talks with the Vietnamese communists. These talks collapsed in 1946, and French warships
  • Warsaw Pact Formed

  • Polio Vaccine

    Polio Vaccine
    you could get paralyzed anymore
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    Vietnam War

  • Interstate Highway Act

    Interstate Highway Act
    made highways to drive on
  • Elvis Presley First Hit Song

    Elvis Presley First Hit Song
    every one was lising to it
  • Sputnik I

    Sputnik I
    soviet launched a sattilate into space
  • Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV

  • Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate

    Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
    The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely-contested election, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee.
  • Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate

    Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
    In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first televised presidential debates in American history. The Kennedy-Nixon debates not only had a major impact on the election's outcome, but ushered in a new era in which crafting a public image and taking advantage of media exposure became essential
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
  • Peace Corps Formed

    Peace Corps Formed
    March 1, 1961, Washington, D.C.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista
  • Mapp v. Ohio

    Mapp v. Ohio
    Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), was a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts
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    John F. Kennedy

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    cuba had missles pointed at us
  • Sam Walton Opens First Walmart

  • Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas

    Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
    he got killed
  • Gideon v. Wainwright

    Gideon v. Wainwright
    Clarence Earl Gideon was charged in Florida state court with a felony: having broken into and entered a poolroom with the intent to commit a misdemeanor offense. When he appeared in court without a lawyer, Gideon requested that the court appoint one for him. According to Florida state law, however, an attorney may only
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    Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
    we spyed on north vietnam
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
  • Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins

    The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict began with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48 civil war.
  • Escobedo v. Illinois

    Escobedo v. Illinois
    gets denided of a lawyer
  • Miranda v. Arizona

    Miranda v. Arizona
    This case represents the consolidation of four cases, in each of which the defendant confessed guilt after being subjected to a variety of interrogation techniques without being informed of his Fifth Amendment rights during an interrogation. On March 13, 1963, Ernesto Miranda was arrested in his house and brought to then
  • Six Day War

    Six Day War
    The Six-Day War also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria. Relations between Israel and its neighbours had never fully normalised
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    The Tet Offensive (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Tết Mậu Thân 1968), or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 (Vietnamese: Tổng Tiến công và Nổi dậy Tết Mậu Thân 1968) by North Vietnam and NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968
  • My Lai Massacre

    My Lai Massacre
    Vietnamese women and children in Mỹ Lai before being killed in the massacre, March 16, 1968. According to court testimony, they were killed seconds after the photo was taken. The woman on the right is adjusting her blouse buttons because of a sexual assault that happened before the massacre
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    The Tet Offensive (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Tết Mậu Thân 1968), or officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 (Vietnamese: Tổng Tiến công và Nổi dậy Tết Mậu Thân 1968) by North Vietnam and NLF, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968
  • Tinker v. Des Moines

  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization
    president withdraws troops from vietnam
  • Woodstock Music Festival

  • Draft Lottery

  • Manson Family Murders

  • Apollo 11

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    Richard Nixon

  • Invasion of Cambodia

    Invasion of Cambodia
    The Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion and the Cambodian Invasion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam
  • Environmental Protection Agency

    Environmental Protection Agency
    White House Infrastructure Initiative. Administrator Scott Pruitt participated in the White House Infrastructure Initiative Roundtable. To support this initiative, EPA will work to repair and restore the nation's water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land. Read our news release · Read the White House new
  • Kent State Shootings

  • Pentagon Papers

    Pentagon Papers
    Pentagon Papers, papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968 and that were commissioned in 1967 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. They were turned over
  • 26th Amendment

  • Policy of Détente Begins

    Policy of Détente Begins
    Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev,
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    Jimmy Carter

  • Nixon Visits China

    Nixon Visits China
    Nixon's historic visit began the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States
  • Watergate Scandal

    The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's administration'
  • War Powers Resolution

    War Powers Resolution
    president can send troops any were with out a decleration of war for 60 days only tho
  • War Powers Resolution

    The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548) is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
  • Engaged Species Act

    Engaged Species Act
    The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) was signed on December 28, 1973, and provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend
  • OPEC Oil Embargo

    OPEC Oil Embargo
    Oil Embargo, 1973–1974. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations
  • First Cell-Phones

  • United States v. Nixon

  • Ford Pardons Nixon

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    United States v. Nixon

  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam
  • Bill Gates Starts Microsoft

  • NRA lobbying begins

    NRA lobbying begins
    Gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association are loud political lobbyists - until a mass shooting. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post). This post has been updated. In the early 1930s, with gangsters like John Dillinger mowing down his enemies with machine guns on the streets, Congress held ...
  • Steve Jobs Starts Apple

  • Community Reinvestment Act of 1977

    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
    The Community Reinvestment Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound operations. ... Comments will be taken into consideration during the next CRA examination.
  • Camp David Accords

  • Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

  • conservative resurgence

    conservative resurgence
    Its initiators called it the Conservative Resurgence while its detractors labeled it the Fundamentalist Takeover. It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by liberals.
  • trickle down economics

    trickle down economics
    Trickle-down economics, also referred to as trickle-down theory, is an economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term.
  • war on drugs

    war on drugs
    In June 1971, President Nixon declared a “war on drugs.” He dramatically increased the size and presence of federal drug control agencies, and pushed through measures such as mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants.
  • AIDS epidemic

    AIDS epidemic
    global pandemic. As of 2016, approximately 36.7 million people are living with HIV globally. In 2016, approximately half are men and half are women. There were about 1.0 million deaths from AIDS in 2016, down from 1.9 million in 2005.
  • Sandra day O'Connor appointed to the U.S. Supreme court

    Sandra day O'Connor appointed to the U.S. Supreme court
    Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan to 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Court.
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    Ronald Reagan

  • marines in lebanon

    marines in lebanon
    Facts: October 23, 1983 - 241 US service personnel -- including 220 Marines and 21 other service personnel -- are killed by a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon. Three hundred service members had been living at the four-story building at the airport in Beirut.
  • iran cotra affair

    iran cotra affair
    also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.
  • the oprah winfrey show first airs

    the oprah winfrey show first airs
    The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
  • mr gorbachev tear down this walll

    mr gorbachev tear down this walll
    "Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier ..
  • mr gorbachev tear down this wall

    "Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier
  • End of Cold War

    End of Cold War
    During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
  • berlin wall falls

    berlin wall falls
    The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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    Gerge H. W. Bush

    American politician who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush was the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
  • germany reunifaction

    germany reunifaction
    The German reunification (German: Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article ...
  • Iraq Invades Kuwait

    Iraq Invades Kuwait
    motivated by its desire to take control over the latter's vast oil reserves. The Iraqi government justified its invasion by claiming that Kuwait was a natural part of Iraq carved off as a result of British imperialism.
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    Persian Gulf War

  • soviet union collapses

    soviet union collapses
    The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union. It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
  • Operation Desert Storm

  • Ms. Adcox Born

  • Rodney King

    Rodney King
    Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991. George Holliday, a witness
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    Bill Clinton

  • NAFTA Founded

  • Contract with America

    Contract with America
    Image result for • Contract with Americawww.cnn.com
    The 1994 elections resulted in Republicans gaining 54 House and 9 U.S. Senate seats. When the Republicans gained this majority of seats in the 104th Congress, the Contract was seen as a triumph by party leaders such as Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and the American conservative movement in general.
  • O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century”

    O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century”
    The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in which former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster, and actor Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson
  • Bill Clinton’s Impeachment

    Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
    The impeachment process of Bill Clinton was initiated by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, against Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. These charges stemmed from a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Clinton
  • USA Patriot Act

    USA Patriot Act
    The USA PATRIOT Act is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. With its ten-letter abbreviation (USA PATRIOT) expanded, the full title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001”.
  • War on Terror

    War on Terror
    The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001
  • matias poblete

  • 9/11

    9/11
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
    The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were 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
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    George W. Bush

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    War in Afghanistan

  • NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins

    NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins
    they go check out mars
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    Iraq War

  • Facebook Launched

    Facebook Launched
    facebook came a social app
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina
    big hurricane
  • Saddam Hussein Executed

    Saddam Hussein Executed
    The execution of Saddam Hussein took place on Saturday, 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.
  • Iphone Released

    Iphone Released
    the iphone was released in stores
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (

  • Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State

  • Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court

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    Barack Obama

  • Arab Spring

  • Osama Bin Laden Killed

  • Space X Falcon 9

  • Donald Trump Elected President