The 20th Century

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  • US Population exceeds 75 million

  • Period: to

    1900-1910

  • Gold Standard Act

  • Foraker Act

    Established Civilian Government in Puerto Rico

  • President McKinley assassinated

  • FIrst Rose Bowl Game played

  • Drago Doctrine

  • Ford Motor Company Formed

  • Big Stick Diplomacy - roosevelt

  • Wright Brothers First Powered Flight

  • First World Series played

  • Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine

  • Panama Canal Zone

  • Hepburn Act

  • Theodore Roosevelt enacts Portsmouth Treaty, wins Nobel Peace Prize

  • San Francisco Earthquake

  • Oklahoma becomes a state

  • Ford Model T Appears on Market

  • FBI established

  • William Howard Taft becomes President

  • The US Penny changed to Abe Lincoln design

  • Period: to

    1910-1930

  • Boy Scouts of of America Formed

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

  • First use of Aircraft as offensive weapon in war

    Turkish Italian War

  • Amundsen reaches the South Pole

  • Titanic Sinks on Maiden voyage

  • World War I begins

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand assasinated

  • Lusitania sunk by German UBoats

  • Einstein's "General Theory of Relativity"

  • First US Combat troops in France

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • League of Nations Established

  • First Commercial Radio Broadcast aired

  • Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S.

  • Mussolini Marches on Rome

  • Talking Movies Invented

  • First Olympic Winter Games

  • J. Edgar Hoover appointed Director of FBI

  • Route 66 Established

  • Lindbergh Flight

  • First Oxford English Dictionary Published

  • Period: to

    1 Jan 1930-1 Jan 1950

  • Empire State Building opens

  • Stinson Doctrine

  • Ford Introduces Motel B

  • Norris-Laguardia Act

  • FDR sworn in as President

  • 20th Amendment

  • Works Progress Administration

  • FBI Established

  • Neutrality Acts

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Selective Service Act

  • Casablanca released

  • D-Day

  • G.I Bill

  • FDR wins Re-election

  • Battle of Okinawa

  • Tehran Revolution

  • Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier

  • Period: to

    1 Jan 1950-31 Dec 1969

  • Korean War begins

  • McCarthy Gains power

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Eisenhower elected

  • Rosenbergs Executed

  • McCarthy discredited in Army hearings

  • Rosa Parks incited Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Eisenhower Re-elected

  • Little Rock, Arkansas school desegregated

  • Hawaii and Alaska become 49th and 50th state

  • Cuban Revolution

  • Greensboro Sit ins

  • JFK Elected

  • JFK inauguration

  • JFK Assasinated

  • Gulf of Tonkin Revolution

  • 24th amendment

  • Miranda V. Arizona

  • Super Bowl 1

  • Detroit Race Riot

  • Period: to

    1 Jan 1970 - 31 Dec 1979

  • Kent State shootings

  • 26th amendment ratified

  • Nixon ends the Gold Standard

  • Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty Signed

  • Nixon re-elected

  • House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach President Nixon

  • President Ford survives two assasination attempts in 17 days

  • Jimmy Carter wins Election

  • New York City Blackout

  • Elvis Presley dies