timeline project ( yuliano kondeff ) period 4

INDUSTRIALIZATION: george mortiner pullmen(mar 3,1831-oct 19,1897)

Mar 3, 1831

George pullmen is an american engineer and industrialist.He designed and manufacttured pullmen sleeping car and made a town for the workers that build them.

INDUSTRIALIZATION:Andrew carnegie (nov 25,1835-aug 11,1919)

Nov 25, 1835

Andrew carnegie was an american industrialist that owned Americas steel industry.He belived in using his money to help out society.

INDUSTRIALIZATION:Thomas edison (feb 11,1847-oct 18,1931)

Feb 11, 1847

Thomas edison was and american inventor and buisnessman.He developed the phonograph,motion picture camara and the light bulb.

CIVIL WAR : LINCOLN WINS close race

Nov 6, 1860

Abraham lincoln did not win on popularity votes.He earned enough electoral votes to beat all other opponents.

RECONSTRUCTION:emancipation proclamation #2

Jan 1, 1863

Lincoln issues the second emancipation proclamation.Emphasized as a war measure frees all slaves in states or parts that were still in rebellion.

CIVIL WAR :GETTYSBURG

Jul 1, 1863

one of the bloodiest battles of the war ,that war was also a turning point.This war marks the farthest advance of the confederate army into northern territory led by Robert E.Lee.

RECONSTRUCTION:freedmen bureau established

Mar 3, 1865

Bureau of refugees,freedmen,and abanded lands.Established within the war department

CIVIL WAR : LEE surrenders

Apr 9, 1865

General robert E.lee surrenders to general ulysses S.grant.Happened in the town of appomattox court house,virginia,the war ended.

RECONSTRUCTION:KKK begins

Dec 24, 1865

organization composed of confedarate army vets founded the kkk.They intimidated blacks and other ethnic groups and religious minorities.

GILDED AGE:Rochefeller incorporates STANDERD OIL

Jan 10, 1870

John D. rockefeller standard oil company is incorparated in ohio.Standard oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868.

GILDED AGE:Alexander graham bell invents telephone

Mar 10, 1876

Alexander graham bell transmits a human voice over a wire.Telephone revolutionize personal and business comminication.

IMPERIALISM: BERLIN CONFERENCE

Jan 5, 1884

Conference is significant because it marks king leopold II decided to carve up africa so that belgium expanded and other european nations.Did not consider cultural or linguistic boundaries when they choose which land to conquer.

GILDED AGE :HAYMARKET riot

May 4, 1886

Rally in chicago's haymarket square in support of striking workers.A bomb was thrown killing 6 police men and wounding more then 60 people.

IMPERIALISM:SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

Apr 25, 1898

Declared april 25th 1898 after sinking of the main battleship in havana of febuary earlier that year.War ended august 13,1898,peace treaty signed december 10th,1898.

IMPERIALISM : HAWAII ANNEXED

Jul 7, 1898

THE U.S ANNEXED HAWAII on july 7,1898.HAWAIIANS were given full u.s citizenship due to buisness interest.

WORLD WAR 1:GERMANY declared war

Aug 1, 1914

Austria-hungary declares war on serbia.This effectively of archduke franze-furdinand and his wife by a serbian nationalist.

WORLD WAR 1 : WOODROW WILSON

Aug 4, 1914

President woodrow wilson announces the u.s wil remain neutral.On april 4 house reprasentatives declared car and america formally entered WWI.

WORLD WAR 1 : ZIMMERMAN telegram

Jan 19, 1917

Germany sends a secrete telegram to mexico so mexico can join the war and germany tells them that if they do they will get their used to own land back like arizona.the britich intercept and decipher the coded message.

ROARING 20'S: PROHIBITION

Jan 16, 1919

Pgohibition banned the consumption and selling of alcahol.Al capone made tons of money selling illegal alcahol.

ROARING 20'S : SCOPES TRIAL

Jul 21, 1925

A high school teacher goes on trial for teaching theory of evolution in school.He lost the trail and paid charges of 100 dollars.

ROARING 20'S : BLACK TUESDAY

Oct 29, 1929

At the end of the 1920'sthe stock marcket crashed.Caused the start of the great depression.

GREAT DEPRESSION : SWOOT-HAWLEY tariff

Jun 17, 1930

Raised import duties in attempt to protect american manufactures from foreign competition.Had little impact on the american economy, but but but european economy in crisis.

GREAT DEPRESSION : ROOSEVELT elected

Mar 4, 1933

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT defeats HERBERT HOOVER by landside.He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of economic depression and war.

GREAT DEPRESSION : ROOSEVELT RE-ELECTED

Nov 3, 1936

ROOSEVELT is re-elected as second term president, wonin landslide against ALF LANDON.He also won every state but MAIN and VERMONT.

WORLD WAR II : NEUTRALITY act

May 1, 1937

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT signs the 1937 neutrality act.Bans travel on hostile ships,forbids the arming of american marchent ships tradng with countries at war .

WORLD WAR II : ATTACK of the PANAY

Dec 12, 1937

JAPANESE war planes attack an american boat in accident.Nevertheless the attack caused u.s opinions to turn against the japanese.

WORLD WAR II : FALL of FRANCE

Jun 23, 1940

Government capitulated on 25th june just seven days after the start of the invasion.HITLERS brilliant BLITZKRIEG plan got the allies by surpries.

COLD WAR : YALTA CONFERENCE

Feb 8, 1945

This decided the post war statues of GERMANY.Also the decision to divide GERMANY in to four occupation zone.

VIETNAM WAR : HIROSHIMA

Aug 6, 1945

The united states droped an ATOMIC BOMB in HIROSHIMA,JAPAN first atomic bomb to be used in war.The bomb killed 75,000 instantly,and injured more then 100,000.

COLD WAR : RED SCARE at its peak

Jun 8, 1949

The red scare reached its peak in 1949.The government started to think that celebrities where members of the communist party.

COLD WAR : KITCHEN DEBATE

Jul 24, 1959

President RICHARD NIXON and soviet leader NIKITA KHRUCHEV get into a heated debate.The so called "kitchen debate" became one of the most famouse episodes in the COLD WAR.

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:KLAN BOMBS BIRMINGHAM CHURCH

Sep 15, 1963

The KKK bombs the 16th street BAPTIST CHURCH,killed four young girls attending sunday school.Only one suspect went on trial and was convicted in 2001,38 years after the murder.

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT : CICIL RIGHTS ACT

Jul 2, 1964

President LYNDON JOHNSON signs the civil right act which outlaws segragation in all public places.He threaten to pull federal funding from places that discriminate based on COLOR,RACE,ETHNICITY,and GENDER .

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT : BLOODY SUNDAY

Mar 7, 1965

Over 600 people leave SELMA,ALABAMA and go to montgemery in a march for voting rights.They reached EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE and state troopers used violence and gases to drive them back to SELMA.

VIETNAM WAR : MY LAI

Mar 16, 1968

U.S soilders mad about not capturing vietnamese guerillas killed 30 civilians in MY LAI village. Commander WILLIAM CALLEY was sentenced to life in prison but was realesed in 1974.

VIETNAM WAR : WAR ENDS

Apr 30, 1975

VIETNAM tanks enter SAIGON and the last U.S marines flee in helicopters.LOOTERS take over the embassy building as the vietnam war comes to an end,.