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Oil Industry
John Dean Rockafeller
90% Worlds oil
41 company trust
Mononpoly
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timeline
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Industrial Revolution
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Inventions
typewriter, telephone, and phonograpgh -
Contract Labor Act
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Steel Industry
Andrew Carnegie, sold company to JP Morgan -
Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company
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Electricity was created
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Eddison improved lightbulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Haymarket Riot
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Carnegie Steel Company was created
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Homestead Strike
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Pullman Strike
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
seperate but equal -
President MicKinley
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Spanish American War
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Boxer rebellion in China
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President Taft
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President Wilson
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WWI starts
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Russia became Soviet Union, first communist nation
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WWI Ends
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Treaty of Versailles
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19th ammendment
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President Harding
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President Coolidge
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President Hoover
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19th Ammendment
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Holocaust Starts
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President Roosevelt
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Hitler marched into Austria
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Manhattan Project
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WWII Begins
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Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
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WWII Ended
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Holocaust Ends
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President Truman
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Potsdam Declaration
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US Dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima
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US dropped A-bomb on Nagasaki
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Israel is created
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Marshall Plan was signed
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Berlin Airlift begins
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Berlin Airlift Ends
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Korean War Starts
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President Eisenhower
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Korean War ends
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Emmett Till
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President Kennedy
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Kennedy Assassination
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President Johnson
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Vietnam Escalates
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Martin Luther King , Jr Assassination
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President Nixon
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President Ford
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Vietnam Ends
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President Carter
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Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan
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President Reagan
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Soviet Union Declines
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President Bush Sr.
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Soviet Union- Afghanistan War (the Bear Trap) ends
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Berlin Wall is torn down
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Persian Gulf War
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Persian Gulf War ends
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President Clinton
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1st World Trade Center bombing
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President Bush Jr.
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War on Terror, still unresolved
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Afghanistan/Taliban
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9.11, Terrorist attack
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Patriot Act was signed into law
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Stock Crash
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President Obama
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Bin Laden=Dead
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21 day Iraq War