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Appomattox
Lee's surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. This signaled the end of the Southern States' attempt to create a separate nation. -
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1865-2003
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Industrial Revolution
The Guilded Age was a time of huge economic growth of America. There was also many immigrants, causing alot of poverty also. -
Imperialism: The Spanish-American War
The war that stopped Spanish occupation of the Western Hemishphere. This secured the position of the U.S. as a Pacific power. -
Imperialism: Creation of the Panama Canal
This canal connected the atlantic to the Pacific. Making Nationalism grow. -
World War One Begins
World War One was a global war that was fought in Europe. The Majority of the World faught. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was made, and was signed on June 28, 1919, by Germany, Britain, France, Italy,and Russia. It formally ended the war. -
Prohibition/Roaring 20's
This was a time of about fourteen years of American history in which manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor was made illegal. It was also a time of huge social and economic growth, and also a time of jazz. -
Great Depression and the New Deal
The New York Stock Exchange collapsed in the greatest market crash seen up to that time. The economy was teriible. -
World War II
A global war that involved most of the world's nations. It ended in 1945. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
An unexpected military strike by the Japanese Navy on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This led to the United States joining World War II -
The Cold War
A sustained state of military and political tensions between powers in the Western Bloc. This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany. -
The Korean War
A war between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democracy of Korea (North Korea). It ended on July 27, 1953. -
The Vietnam War
A cold War-era conflict in Vietnam. Ended on April 30, 1975. -
Imperialism: Aquisition of Hawaii
Hawaii was added to America. It was then the 50th state. -
The Gulf War
A war led by the U.S. against Iraq responding to Iraq's invasion and addition of Kuwait. Ended on February 28, 1991. -
September 11, 2001
Attack where four coordinated terrorist attacks were launched by the islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. Two of them crashed into the World Trait Center. -
Operation Enduring Freedom
The effect of 9/11. War of anger of the U.S. in Afghanastan. -
Invasion of Iraq
This signaled the start of the conflict that later came to be known as the Iraq War. It lasted 21 days. -
Operation Iraqi Freedom
George W. Bush declared Major Combat Operations over. This signaled a transition to operations to stabilize Iraq and surpport reconstruction.
