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Prohibition on Alcohol
The ratification of the 18th Amendment was completed on January 16th, 1919 and would take effect on January 17th, 1920. It is important to note that the 18th Amendment did not prohibit the consumption of alcohol, but rather simply the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
Women Get the Right to Vote
Women Get the Vote Until 1920, women had been second-class citizens in the land of the free. Once women got the right to vote, they began to change the country. -
Stock Market Crash
Stock Market Crash In October 1929, the New York Stock Market crashed, sending the United States into an unprecedented and desperate economic depression that scarred a generation of Americans. -
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people. -
JFK Assasination
JFK Assassinated On Nov. 22, 1963, the young, charismatic and brilliant John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. No one living then will ever forget the day -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act Enacted President Lyndon Johnson signed a landmark civil rights act in 1964, culminating a long and continuing struggle for equal rights for all Americans. -
Vietnam War
also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Election of Jimmy Carter
The Inauguration of Jimmy Carter as the 39th President of the United States was held on Thursday, January 20, 1977, on the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington D.C.. -
Invasion of Grenada
The invasion, led by the United States, of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, which has a population of about 91,000 and is located 160 kilometres north of Venezuela, resulted in a U.S. victory within a matter of days. -
Worlds population hit 5 Billion
The Day of Five Billion, 11 July 1987, was designated by the United Nations Population Fund as the approximate day on which world population reached five billion. Matej Gašpar from Zagreb, Croatia (then SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia), was chosen as the symbolic 5-billionth person concurrently alive on Earth. The honor went to Zagreb because the 1987 Summer Universiade was taking place in the city at the time. -
George Bush election
It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988. Incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush, the Republican nominee, defeated Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. The 1988 election is the only election since 1948 in which either major party won a third straight presidential election. -
East and West Germany reunite
the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, and five new Federal States on its former territory joined the Federal Republic of Germany. East and West Berlin were reunited and joined the Federal Republic as a full-fledged Federal City-State. -
LA Riot
Acquittal of 4 white Los Angeles police officers in beating of an African-American, Rodney King, sparks racial rioting in LA -
Clinton
Bill Clinton (Dem) elected president over Bush -
Cold War Ended
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
OJ simpson
Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson & Ronald Goldman leads to arrest, trial, & eventual acquittal of former football star OJ Simpson; contributes to racial polarization -
Terrorism
Terrorists linked to American right-wing militias bomb federal building in Oklahoma City -
Welfare reform
Welfare reform bills enacted, significantly curtailing federal aid to poor -
Bill clinton
Clinton reelected, defeating Robert Dole (Rep) -
9/11
The terror attack on September 11, 2001 reorients the administration towards foreign policy and terrorism issues, providing an opportunity for neoconservatives to have a greater influence on foreign policy. The Bush Doctrine leads to long-term interventions in Afghanistan (2001 to present) and Iraq (2003–2011)