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Reconstruction
the period after the civil war when the United States begn to reconstruct.The compromise of 1877 ended it. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in 1820. -
Appomattox
Appomattox ct house civil war ended.Declared slavery abolished in the U.S.A -
Spanish American war
conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S adding territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. -
WW1
World War I was an extremely bloody war that engulfed Europe from 1914 to 1918, with huge losses of life and little ground lost or won. Fought mostly by soldiers in trenches, World War I saw an estimated 10 million military deaths and another 20 million wounded. -
Prohibition/Roaring 20's
roarinng 20 's was when major cities during a period of sustained economic prosperity and Jazz became a huge hit.
Prohibition made illegal the manufacture, import and sale of beer, wine and hard liquor; it did not make drinking illegal. It was promoted by evangelical Protestant churches to get rid of drunkeness and petty crime. -
The Great Depression
Stock market crashes Octobe 29,2013 unemployment and large-scale closures of banks.President Was Franklin he let the Hoover dam begin construction which gavealot of jobs and helped end the great depression -
WW2
was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved themajority of the world's nations,eventually forming two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people, from more than 30 different countries in army. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 4] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea planned a surprise attack on South Korea. People in South Korea were unaware of the upcoming attack on that morning, which started a war that would kill more than 3,000,000 lives. Seoul, was quickly captured by the North Korean troops, due to the fact that the attack had been unaccounted for. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict that pitted the communist of North Vietnam and its southern allies against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war began in 1955 ,and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between the United States. -
The Gulf War
was when the iraq invaded kuwait and sadam hussein asked the U.S what we would do if he invaded kuwait and we said nothing so when they invded kuwait we decided to gather mmany nations together to push sadam back to iraq. -
9/11
were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes, were crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade center. -
Operation Enduring Freedom
is the official name used by the U.S. government for the War in Afghanistan, together with a number of smaller military actions, under the umbrella of the Global "War on Terror. -
Invasion of Iraq
United states invaded iraq because Saddam Hussein was supposedly making weapons of mass destruction -
Opeation Iraqi Freedom
The Iraq War was an armed conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases.The first was an invasion of Iraq starting on 20 March 2003 by an invasion force led by the United States the second phase insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the Iraqi governmentThe U.S. completed withdrawal of military personnel in December 2011. However, the Iraqi insurgency continues to cause thousands of deaths.
