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18th Amendment
The 18th amendment prohibited the usage and sale of alcohol. It was important to US history because it was a catalyst in organized crime. The mob and gangsters caused tons of violence and made billions of dollars -
19th amendment
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. It is extremely important in the move for equality between men and women. -
Scopes Trial
John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in school. He was a teacher in Tennessee. He was ordered to pay $100. -
Stock Market Crash
The wall street crash of 1929 happened because of people panic selling their shares. The United States went from rich to poor extremely quick. -
Amelia Earhart solo flight
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly transatlantic solo. She completed the flight in 15 hours. It showed that women could do anything a man could. -
Roosevelt 1st election
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr., often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
CCC
President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), an innovative federally funded organization that put thousands of Americans to work during the Great Depression on projects with environmental benefits. -
Social Security Act
On August 14, 1935, the Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
FDR court packing scandal
On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to “pack” the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal. -
HUAC formed
The House Un-American Activities Committee investigated allegations of communist activity in the United States. They were formed to combat communism in America. -
Germany breaks Munich Pact
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined. Hitler ended up taking all of Czechoslovakia and WW2 started soon after. -
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War. The Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. -
operation overlord/D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
FDR dies, Truman begins term
On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War. -
Manhattan project
The Manhattan project was the project where American scientists worked to create the atom bomb. It took a whole 6 years of work to plan and make the bomb. Without the scientists we wouldn't have had the bomb. It helped us stay the most powerful nation in the world. -
Nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 -
United Nations Created
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II with the aim of preventing another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy thats purpose was to combat soviet expansion during the Cold War. It was announced by Truman in early 1947. -
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Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. West Berlin had massive amounts of supplies airlifted in due to a blockade by the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Union detonates atomic bomb (Cold War story)
When the United States first found out that the Soviet Union detonated an atomic bomb it came a a surprise. It showed that the Soviet Union was no longer behind when it came to weaponry. -
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Korean War
The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea.The fighting ended when an armistice was signed. Prisoners were returned and the demilitarized zone was created. -
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Rosenberg Trials
The Rosenburg's were charged with espionage for giving information on how to created atomic weapons to the Soviet Union. They were tried and found guilty. They were sentenced to death unless they admitted guilt. They refused and executed by electric chair. -
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Brown v Board
Brown v Board was a court case in the Supreme Court that ruled that separate but equal was not true and therefor unconstitutional. Schools were soon ordered to allow children of any race to enroll. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy from Chicago that went down to Missouri to stay with his family for the summer. Emmett was murdered by whites for allegedly whistling at a white woman at a store. He was beaten to death and thrown in the river. This was a wake up call to everybody who didn't support the civil rights movement. -
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Vietnam war
The communist north and the U.S. back south were fighting to reunify the country. The war had a large opposition in the United States. The Vietnam war was the longest the United States has ever been. Over 58,000 Americans died. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into a low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.It was the first man made object to reach space. -
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Greensboro lunch Sit-ins
The Greensboro lunch Sit-ins happened when four students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro. The official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. The four students refused to give up their seats. The next day they returned with more students from surrounding colleges and did the same thing. -
U-2 incident (Cold War story)
The U-2 incident happened when the Soviet Union shot down an American plane while it was in Soviet airspace. This even greatly increased tensions between the countries. -
First human in space (Cold War story)
The Soviet Union sent the first human to space. Yuri Gagarin was the first person to leave earths atmosphere and be in orbit. It was an amazing accomplishment and pushed the United States to work even harder with the space race. -
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Bay of Pigs invasion (Cold War story)
The United States invaded Cuba with the hope to overthrow Fidel Castro.The CIA showed their plan to Eisenhower and got approval. The plan failed miserably. All it did was raise tensions between the two openly opposed countries. -
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Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961. The Supreme Court had previously ruled that segregation on public transit was unconstitutional. The Freedom Riders wanted the ruling to be enforced. -
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Berlin Wall
Germany was divided at the end of World War 2 because there was no government. The Soviet Union put up the Berlin Wall to stop the flow of East German citizens to democratic West Germany. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis started when the Soviets started building missile sites in Cuba so that if need be they could reach The United States. JFK ordered a naval blockade around Cuba. A compromise was made. The U.S. promised not to invade Cuba and the missiles were not put in Cuba. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a large protest for equal treatment of minorities in the country. The goal was to pressure the JFK administration to initiate a strong civil rights bill. Martin Luther Kings famous I have a dream speech happened at the march along with lots of other speeches. -
Assassination of JFK
JFK was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dallas. Roy Oswald shot him in the head. Oswald was arrested soon after and killed by Jack Ruby. -
civil rights act of 1964
The civil rights act of 1964 banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It was huge in showing that the government was really trying to end discrimination. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The U.S. destroyer, Maddox, exchanged shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two days later, the Maddox and another destroyer reported once again coming under fire. Lyndon B. Johnson got permission from congress to take any measure necessary to ensure safety to South Vietnam. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot before he was about to deliver a speech about his new organization called the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He had received many death threats from the Nation of Islam previously. -
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Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was an attempt by the United States to destroy the North Vietnamese ability to fight. It was a failure and lasted over 3 years. -
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Tet-offensive
The North Vietnamese attacked more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to create rebellion among the South Vietnamese.The Tet Offensive was also an attempt to get the U.S. to lower its involvement in the war. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. James Earl Ray was found guilty as the sole assassin. -
First man on the moon (Cold War story)
The United States was the first country to send people to the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the moon. It was part of the Apollo 11 mission. -
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Woodstock
Woodstock was a huge music and art festival. Over 500,000 people attended. It was also a large example of the counter culture in the United States. -
Kent State
The Kent state shootings happened when guardsmen shot and killed four unarmed students and injured 9 others who were protesting the United States bombing Cambodia. After the shooting happened many colleges closed around the country because of mass amounts of student walkouts. -
SALT agreement (Cold War story)
The strategic arms limitations talks were a series of meetings which dealt with the issues of atomic weapons. An agreement was made in which both countries agreed to limit the amount of Atomic bombs were made. This was a major part of the Cold War because it slowed down the arms race. -
Reagans visit to the Berlin wall (Cold War story)
President Ronald Reagan visited West Berlin and made a speech calling for the Soviets to tear down the Berlin wall. Two years later it was torn down by Gorbachev. It showed the U.S. commitment to West Berlin. -
End of the Cold War (Cold War story)
The end of the Cold War happened when the USA and the Soviet Union met in the neutral country of Malta. The Soviet Union withdrew their military from Eastern Europe. The leaders of both countries agreed to work together to improve cooperation and the relations between themselves. -
German reunification (Cold War story)
The German reunification occurred when East and West Germany were back to being one country. There was no longer Soviet occupation. This was a true sign that the cold war was close to over. -
Fall of the Soviet Union (Cold War story)
The Soviet Union granted independence to the republics of the Soviet Union. The leader Gorbachev played a large part in this.e didn't do much to stop the fall he was more focussed on reforming Russia. -
Vietnam day creation
Vietnam day is a day where we are supposed to recognize the veterans of the Vietnam war. Barack Obama proclaimed that March 29th was Vietnam day and Donald J. Trump later signed it into law.
