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Roosevelt 1st Election
It was Theodore Roosevelt Vs. Alton B. Parker. Where Roosevelt was republican and Alton was Democratic. -
Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday hit wall street as investors traded some 19 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of Dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
CCC
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. -
Social Security Act
An act to provide for the genral welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits. -
FDR Court Packing Scandal
President Roosevelt announced a controversial plan tp expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, alledgy to make it more effiecent. -
Germany Breaks Munich Pact
Hitler openly to support the demands of German-speakers living in the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia for closer ties with Germany. -
HUAC Formed
The House Un-American Activites Committee was an investigative committee of the U.S House of Representies. -
Battle of Britain
German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. -
Vietnam Independence
Ho Chi Minh died on September 2, 1969, 25 years after declaring Vietnam's independence from France and nearly six years before his forces succeeded in reuniting North and South Vietnam under communist rule -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japenese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base. -
Operation Overlord/D-Day
The battle of Normandy resulted in Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. -
FDR Dies/Truman President
The president passed away after four momentous terms in office, leaving vice president Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War. -
Potsdam Conference
The last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state -
Nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During the World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
n August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
United Nations created
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations after the World War II. -
Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
In 1946, Winston Churchill gave a speech in which he declared that Russia had built an "Iron Curtain" separating eastern Europe from western Europe -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. It forced the allies to send materials through airlift. -
NATO Formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between three of the five official nuclear-weapon states -
Korean War
A war between the North and South Korea. It started when North Korea invaded South Korea follion a seires of clashes along the barrier. -
Rosenberg Trials
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York. A couple accused of espionage selling nuclear secrets to Russians. -
Brown v Board
A huge Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
Warsaw Pact
A collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite territories. -
Hungarian Revolution
A nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
Space Race
The battle to be superior in terms of space between the United States and Soviet Russia. -
Sputnik
Was the first artificial satellite on earth made by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Greensboro lunch Sit-ins
Nonvoilent protests leading to departments removing segragtion on preperty. -
U-2 Spy Incident
U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cubans launched an invasion on the south-east coast of Cuba and Fidel Castro gained power and overthrew the government -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
Berlin Wall
Was a guarded physical and ideological barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning nuclear missiles in Cuba. -
March on Washington
The highlight of the march, which attracted 250,000 people, was Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Assassination of JFK
Assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
An international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Was shot before he was about to deliver a speech about his new organization. Which took place in New York. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights leader was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Woodstock
A music festival in the United States in 1969 which prompted peace instead of war. -
Kent State
Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students -
Vietnam day
Recognizes soldiers that fought in the Vietnam War and honors their bravery. -
Vietnam war
Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
Carter President
merican politician who served as the 39th President of the United States -
Soviet-Afghan War
The Soviet-Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against soveits -
Olympic boycott by Russia
Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaliation for the US boycott of 1980. -
Tet Offensive
Attacks staged by North Vietnamese forces beginning in the early hours of January 31, 1968, during the Vietnam War -
Chernobyl Disaster
An explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine remains the worst nuclear disaster in history -
Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square Anti Communist protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China were crushed by the government. The death count is unknown.
