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The Homestead Act
THe Homestead Act was when the government offered land to farmers if they lived there for 5 years. -
Sand Creek Massacre
Was triggered by shots fired at the Cheyenne Indians by John Chivington's troop. -
Fort Laramie Treaty
Brought peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation. -
The Gilded Age
From 1870 to 1890. Know as the Gilded Age because of the political corruption. -
Tuskegee Airmen
Late 1930's young black men were allowed to join the Air Force, they were known as the Tuskegee Airmen. -
North African Campaign
It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The reason the U.S. got involved in World War 2. The japanese attacked the military base at Pearl Harbor. -
Doolittle Raid
An air raid by the United States of America on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island -
D Day
The U.S. invades Normandy on this day in World War 2. -
Battle of the Bulge
Major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe -
Germany declares war on United States
Nazi Germany and its Axis partners declare war on the United States. -
Liberation of Concentration camps
Americans discovered Aushwitz and found hundreds of sick and wounded Prisioners. -
VE Day
The Europe claims a victory over Germany in World War 2. -
Enola Gay drops bomb
An atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima -
Start of Korean War
About 75,000 North Korean Soliders went across the 38th parallel -
Truman orders to help
Truman orders to help the South Koreans and calls for a UN intervention. -
Chinese enter Korean War
The Chinese pushed the UN back over the 38th parallel. -
Truman fires MacArthur
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Korean War ends
over 1,000,000 Korean soldiers and 54,000 Americans were killed during the Korean War. The Peace Treaty was never signed. -
Ngo Dinh Diem
The regim was overthrown -
Tet Offensive
Begins, one of largest military campaigns -
My Lai Masscre
The mass killing of South Vietnamese civilians. -
Vietnamization
A program that was suppose to expand, equip, and train the South Vietnamese forces. -
Hill 937 was securred
On June 5th they abandoned the hill and weeks later the NVA look it over again. -
Woodstock
Went from August 15th to the 18th. A music festival in Bethel, New York. Created by 4 men, Roberts, Rosenmen, Kornfeld, and Lang. -
Kent State University
The shooting was 13 seconds long and ended with 4 students dead. -
Jackson State deaths
The death of two students -
Operation Lam Son
The South Vietnamese's attempt to take Tchepone which was a major NVA weapons supply area. -
26th Amendment
The 26th Amendement made it so that 18 year olds could vote, they figured if they were old enough to go to war then they were old enough to vote. -
Release of POW's
North Vietnamese let the POW's go. -
U.S. soldiers leave Vietnam
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Nixon resigns
He leaves office due to the Watergate Scandle. -
Saigon Falls
The North Vietnamese take over Saigon. -
Withdrawl form Kuwait
United Nations asks Iraq for withdrawl -
Persian gulf
When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. Leading to the Iraq war -
Operation Desert Storm Begins
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Independence
Slovenia and croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia -
Bosnia recognizes independence
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UN Resolution 751
authorizes humanitarian relief effort -
The U.S. joins the Somalia war
The start of the Somalian war against the u.s. The U.S. goes in looking for Aidid. -
Mongadishu
dozens of U.S. troops killed or wounded in battle at Mongadishu -
Somalia war ended
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Sarajevo attack
68 killed and 200 more wounded. -
Military effectiveness takes hold
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Milosevic is ready to talk peace
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Bush gives Hussein ultimatum
He was removed -
Persian Gulf War II Begins
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Secure the Area
The Marines and Nays Seals arrive in Mongadishu to secure the area
