History of the U.S.

By carriecrowe
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    WWI

    pigeons used during war to deliver messages

  • NCSS is Founded

    Organiztion and structure is implemented for the better teaching of social studies. YAY!
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    Great Depression 1929 – 1932

    Social Studies was not as importnt, peole were trying to figure out how to survive
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    WWII

    Adolf Hitler storming Europe, placing Jews in concentration camps.

  • Pearl Harbor

    http://youtu.be/kDuwZGgwAZg
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    Korean War

    Communisim in China
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    Civil Rights

    The fight to end segregation and the mistreatment of African Americans.

  • First Satellite Launched (Sputnik, Russia)

    Russia sends satellite into space, many question its purpose
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    Vietnam

    many question as to why we were in this war
  • First Man in Space (Yuri Gagarin, Russia)

    First Man in Space (Yuri Gagarin, Russia)

    Beat the U.S. sending a man into space.

  • First Man on Moon (Neil Armstrong, USA)

    First man ever from the United States to the moon.
  • Watergate

    Watergate

    President Nixon getting into trouble
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    N.C.L.B. mandate in schools

    Puts a strain on education.

  • World Trade Center Attacks

    World Trade Center attacks in New York City.