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Decleration of Independence
This document allowed the 13 colonies break away from British rule. -
Monroe Doctrine
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Roosevelt Corollary
The Roosevelt corollary is a corllary to the Monroe Doctrine. -
Start of World War I
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The sinking of the Lusitanaia
This passenger vessel was sunk by the Germans durring World War I. -
Good Neibor Policy
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World War II
The Nation goes to war against Nazi Germany and try's to limit Hitler's power. -
Pearl Harbor
A suprise millitary stike prefromed by the japanese on the US naval base in Pearl Harbor. This led to the US joining World War II. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
An American Plane dropped the first atomic bomb. -
Truman Doctrine
This was a US policy to stop Soviet expansion durring the cold war. -
Marshall Plan
The United States gave 17 billion dollars to Europien countries to help support them after World War II. -
Korean War
75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Which then ended up dividing Korea into two seperate countries. -
Vietnam War
This was a huge bloody war between North and South Vietnam. Then eventully many countries joined in the war. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Yhis refers to a speach President Eisenhower gave regarding the situation in the Middle East. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a direct threat on the US by the Soviet Union durring the Cold War. -
Operation Dessart Storm
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9/11
Four planes were hijacked by terrorist. Two of them ran into the Twin Towers. One crached into the Pentagon. The onther one crashed in a feild in Pennsyvania. This was the biggest terrorist atack ever on the US. -
The War on Terror
President Bush gave a speach in which he exressed the War on Terror. This then lead to the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. -
Operating Enduring Freedom
