U.S History

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    American Civil War

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    (FREE) Ended slavery
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    Reconstruction

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    People that are born in the U.S are considered (CITIZENS)
  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    Transcontinental Railroad Completed
    first transcontinental railroad in the United States, which linked the Union Pacific on the east and the Central Pacific on the west.
  • Industrialization Begins to Boom

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    All African men have the right to vote (VOTE)
  • Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall

  • Telephone Invented

    Telephone Invented
    Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone
  • Reconstruction Ends

  • Jim Crow Laws Start in South

    Jim Crow Laws Start in South
    Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877
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    Gilded age

  • Light Bulb Invented

    Light Bulb Invented
    Thomas Edison patented -- first in 1879 and then a year later in 1880 and began commercializing his incandescent light bulb.
  • 3rd Wave of Immigration

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act
    U.S. federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years
  • Pendleton Act

    Pendleton Act
    U.S federal law requiring federal jobs to be awarded on the basis of merit.
  • Dawes Act

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

    Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
    Argued that very wealthy men like him had a responsibility to use their wealth for the greater good of society. (Philanthropy)
  • Chicago's Hull House

  • Klondike Gold Rush

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act
    Law that forbade any organization with free trade (prohibiting monopolies)
  • How the Other Half Lives

    How the Other Half Lives
    A publication by photojournalist Jacob Riis which documented the filthy living conditions in New York City tenements and slums in the 1800s.
  • Influence of the Sea Power Upon History

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    Progressive Era

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    Imperialism

  • Homestead Steel Labor Strike

  • Pullman Labor Strike

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    Allowed segregation in public facilities ("SEPARATE BUT EQUAL").
  • Annexation of Hawaii

    Annexation of Hawaii
    United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor.
  • Spanish American War

  • Open Door Policy

    Open Door Policy
    Foreign policy that establishes that all countries equally trade with China
  • Assassination of President McKinley

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    Theodore Roosevelt

    Political Party: Republican + Progressive "Bull Moose" Party
    Domestic Policies: Square Deal (3's)- Trust Buster, Nature Conservation.
  • Wright Brother's Airplane

    Wright Brother's Airplane
    Marks the Year that the Wright Brothers Invented the First. Buoyant over the success of their 1902 glider, the Wright brothers were no longer content to merely add to the growing body of aeronautical knowledge;
  • Panama Canal U.S Construction Begins

    Panama Canal U.S Construction Begins
    The canal connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. That permits cheap and faster international trade.
  • The Jungle

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act
    The first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by Congress with the main purpose to ban foreign and interstate trade in contaminated or mislabeled food and drug products.
  • Model - T

  • NAACP

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    William Howard Taft

    Political Party: Republican
    Domestic Policies: Tried 3'Cs but did not work but he did the 16th/17th Amendment
  • 16th Amendment

  • Federal Reserve Act

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    Woodrow Wilson

    Political Party: Democrat
    Domestic Policies: Clayton Anti-Trust Act, National Park Service, Federal Reserve Act, 18th Amendment, 19 Amendment.
  • 17th Amendment

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns

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    World War I

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania
    British ocean liner carrying Americans that was sunk off the coast of Ireland by German U-Boats in 1915
  • National Parks System

    National Parks System
    Signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, a federal government agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties.
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram
    1917 message British intercepted from the German government to the Mexican government offering German support if Mexico declared war against the U.S.
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
    1917 uprising that destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of communism and the Soviet Union in Russia
  • U.S. entry to World War 1

  • Battle of Argonne Forest

    Battle of Argonne Forest
    A major part of the final Allied offensive of WW1that stretched along the entire Western Fron with lasted 47 days and brought an end to WW1. Largest battle in U.S military history.
  • Armistice

    Armistice
    A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace plans.
  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment
    Made the sale and consumption of alcohol illegal in the United States (Prohibition Temperance)
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Women's suffrage
  • President Harding’s Return to Normalcy

    President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
    After WW1, when Harding was president, the U.S returned to isolationism. The U.S economy bloomed .
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance
    A period in 1920's when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished such as the poetry produced by Langston Hughes.
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare
    Caused hysteria and intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas in America.
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    Roaring Twenties

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal
    Harding Administration secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land. Public angry because of corruption.
  • Joseph Stalin Leads USSR

  • Scopes “Monkey” Trial

    Scopes “Monkey” Trial
    The trial pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism in schools.
  • Mein Kampf published

    Mein Kampf published
    Adolf Hitler wrote this book. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany
  • Charles Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight

  • St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

  • Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”

    Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”
    The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929,
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    Great Depression

  • Hoovervilles

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    Smoot-Hawley Tariff
    Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley
  • 100, 000 Banks Have Failed

  • Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

  • Public Works Administration (PWA)

    Public Works Administration (PWA)
    Federal government spending program that aimed to create jobs while improving the nation's infrastructure.
  • Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

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    New Deal Programs

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    The Holocaust

  • Dust Bowl

  • Social Security Administration (SSA)

    Social Security Administration (SSA)
    The agency covers a wide range of social security services, such as disability, retirement and survivors' benefits.
  • Rape of Nanjing

    Rape of Nanjing
    The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing,
  • Kristallnacht

  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler invades Poland
    To Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German people.
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    World War II

  • German Blitzkrieg attacks

    German Blitzkrieg attacks
    "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery). Use of surprise, speed and superiority in firepower.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941
  • Tuskegee Airmen

    Tuskegee Airmen
    Group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II.
  • Navajo Code Talkers

    Navajo Code Talkers
    The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066
    In an atmosphere of World War II hysteria, President Roosevelt, encouraged by officials at all levels of the federal government, authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan.
  • Bataan Death March

  • Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)

    Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
    The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June
  • Gl Bill

    Gl Bill
    Law passed that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II.
  • Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

    Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
    During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9,
  • Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day

    Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
    Is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. ... On September 2, 1945,
  • Liberation of Concentration Camps

  • Victory in Europe (VE) Day

  • United Nations (UN) formed

    United Nations  (UN) formed
    United Nations is a global organization that brings together its member states to confront common challenges, manage shared responsibilities and exercise collective action in an enduring quest for a peaceful, inclusive and sustainably developing world, in conformity with the principles of justice and international law
  • Germany Divided

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    Harry S. Truman

  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials
    Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death.
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    Baby Boom

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    President Truman’s foreign policy of financially supporting Greece and Turkey to help them fight Soviet communist threats
  • 22nd amendment

  • Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China

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    The Cold War

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    U.S. gave over $13 billion ($140 in current dollar) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe after WWII
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The supply of West Berlin in Germany by American and British planes during a Soviet blockade in 1948.
  • Arab-Israeli War Begins

    Arab-Israeli War Begins
    Was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states over the control of Palestine
  • NATO Formed

    NATO Formed
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization A defensive military alliance with the West European nations and the US.
  • Kim II-sung invades South Korea

  • UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China

  • Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War

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    Korean War

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    1950's Prosperity

  • Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution

    Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
    The execution marked the dramatic finale of the most controversial espionage case of the Cold War.
  • Armistice Signed

    Armistice Signed
    Formal agreement that U.S. and North Korea signed to stop fighting in order to negotiate a peace treaty (not necessarily the end of a war)
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    Warren Court

  • Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    Was a landmark the United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Hernandez v. Texas
    an agricultural worker, was indicted for the murder of Joe Espinoza by an all-Anglo (white) grand jury in Jackson County, Texas. Claiming that Mexican-Americans were barred from the jury commission that selected juries, and from petit juries, Hernandez' attorneys tried to quash the indictment.
  • Warsaw Pact Formed

  • Polio Vaccine

    Polio Vaccine
    The first polio vaccine was the inactivated polio vaccine. It was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955.
  • Rosa Parks Arrested

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a city bus. Dr. Martin Luther King led a boycott of city busses.
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    Vietnam War

  • Interstate Highway Act

    Interstate Highway Act
    The Federal-Aid Highway Act was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.
  • Elvis Presley First Airs on TV

    Elvis Presley First Airs on TV
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Created by Soviet Union, first satellite to orbit the Earth launched in 1957 causing the “space race”
  • Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV

    Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
    has been somewhat maligned for representing an idealized, view of the 1950's (although half the episodes aired in the next decade) where everyone is in his place... the sons go to the school dances and participate in sports and take the girls out on nice, proper dates
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    Group of nine African American students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 but were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention od federal troops sent by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate

    Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
    John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first televised presidential debates in American history.
  • Chicano Mural Movement Begins

    Chicano Mural Movement Begins
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    failed military invasion of Cuba try to overthrow communist governor Fidel Castro.
  • Peace Corps Formed

    Peace Corps Formed
    Signed by Presindent J.F.K , where U.S American citizens provided social and economic aid to other developing countries
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action
    Policy of favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. ("Positive Descrimination")
  • Mapp v. Ohio

    Mapp v. Ohio
    Case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions
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    John F. Kennedy

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Comfortation between U.S and U.S.S.R. concerning missle deployment in cuba
  • Sam Walton Opens First Walmart

    Sam Walton Opens First Walmart
    On July 2, 1962, Sam Walton opens the first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas.
  • Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas

  • George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance

    George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
  • The Feminine Mystique

    The Feminine Mystique
    Book written by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

  • Gideon v. Wainwright

    Gideon v. Wainwright
    Gideon filed a habeas corpus petition in the Florida Supreme Court and argued that the trial court's decision violated his constitutional right to be represented by counsel.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    Massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C
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    Lyndon B. Johnson

  • The Great Society

    The Great Society
    President Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic programs which aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice.
  • Escobedo v. Illinois

    Escobedo v. Illinois
    Danny Escobedo was arrested and taken to a police station for questioning. Over several hours, the police refused his repeated requests to see his lawyer. Escobedo's lawyer sought unsuccessfully to consult with his client. Escobedo subsequently confessed to murder.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    Abolished poll taxes
  • Israel-Palestine Conflict Begins

    Israel-Palestine Conflict Begins
    This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
    Authorized the president to use military power agaunst North Vietnam
  • United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike

    United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
  • Civil Rights Act of 1965

    Civil Rights Act of 1965
    Prohibits racial discrimination in voting, such as outlawing literacy tests which were historically used to disenfranchise racial minorities.
  • Malcom X Assassinated

  • Miranda v. Arizona

    Miranda v. Arizona
    This case represents the consolidation of four cases, in each of which the defendant confessed guilt after being subjected to a variety of interrogation techniques without being informed of his Fifth Amendment rights during an interrogation.
  • Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court

    Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
  • Six Day War

    Six Day War
    The Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies were decisively defeated, and Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria.Established Israel as the dominant regional military power.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
  • My Lai Massacre

    My Lai Massacre
    Mass murder of between 347 to 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam by U.S Army soldiers, some bodies were raped and mutilated.
  • Draft Lottery

  • Manson Family Murders

  • Apollo 11

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Tinker v. Des Moines
    Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on Behalf of Student Expression. Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam.
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization
    End U.S involvement in the Vietnam War by equipping and training South Vietnamese forces while steadily reducing the number of U.S combat troops.
  • Woodstock Music Festival

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    Richard Nixon

  • Invasion of Cambodia

  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

    Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    Agency of the federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress
  • Kent State Shootings

    Kent State Shootings
    Unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
  • Policy of Detente Begins

    Policy of Detente Begins
    Period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
  • Pentagon Papers

    Pentagon Papers
    Name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment
    The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
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    Jimmy Carter

  • Title IX

    Title IX
    Federal law that prohibits gender discrimination.
  • Nixon Visits China

  • Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China

  • Watergate Scandal

    Watergate Scandal
    The Watergate scandal happened when President Richard Nixon, a Republican, was tied to a crime in which broke into the offices of the Democratic Party and George McGovern (the Presidential candidate). Nixon's helpers listened to phone lines and secret papers were stolen.
  • Roe v. Wade

    Roe v. Wade
    Legalized abortion in U.S.
  • Endangered Species Act

    Endangered Species Act
    Provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened
  • OPEC OIL Embargo

    OPEC OIL Embargo
    OPEC imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations.
  • War Powers Resolution

    War Powers Resolution
    A federal law intendted to check the president's power to commit the U.S armed conflict without the consent of congress
  • First Cell-Phones

    First Cell-Phones
    Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone
  • United States v. Nixon

    United States v. Nixon
  • Four Pardons Nixon

    Four Pardons Nixon
    Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
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    Gerald Ford

  • Bill Gates Starts Microsoft

    Bill Gates Starts Microsoft
    Within two years Bill Gates dropped out of college in 1975 to pursue his business, Microsoft,
  • Steve Jobs Starts Apple

    Steve Jobs Starts Apple
    On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne established the Apple computer company and soon introduced the Apple-1 computer.
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    Capture of the capital of South Vietnam by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces ended the Vietnam war and started reunification of Vietnam under a communist regime.
  • National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins

    National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
    (NRA) is and American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights.lobbying has usually been understood as activity by paid professionals to try to influence key legislators and executives
  • Community Reinvestment Act of 1977

    Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
    Was designed to encourage comercial banks and savings associations to help low- and moderate- income neigborhoods .
  • Camp David Accords

    Camp David Accords
    Camp David Accords: Called for a formal peace treaty to be signed between Israel and Egypt,signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter.
  • Egypt-Israel Peace treaty

    Egypt-Israel Peace treaty
    The Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., United States on 26 March 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords.
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    Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Conservative Resurgence

    Conservative Resurgence
    The brewing conservative resurgence wasn't just about cutting taxes, but also reducing government intervention in the economy and reinjecting religion into politics.
  • "Trickle Down Economics"

    "Trickle Down Economics"
    Trickle-down economics , is an economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment and benefit society at large. It is a form of laissez-faire capitalism
  • War on Drugs

    War on Drugs
    Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, his wife, Nancy Reagan, began a highly-publicized anti-drug campaign, coining the slogan "Just Say No.
  • AIDS Epidemic

    AIDS Epidemic
  • Sandra Day O'Connor Appointed to U.S Supreme Court

    Sandra Day O'Connor Appointed to U.S Supreme Court
    Sandra Day O' Conor is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan to 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Court.
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    Ronald Reagan

  • Marines in Lebanon

    Marines in Lebanon
    President Ronald Reagan sends Marines to Lebanon on a peacekeeping mission that turned into a massive terrorist attack in Lebanon that killed 241 American servicemembers
  • Iran-Contra Affair

    Iran-Contra Affair
    President Reagan authorized the off-the-books sale of stolen weapons from the Pentagon to Iran in order to fund the Nicaraguan Contras
  • The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs

    The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
    is an American syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.
  • "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall "

    "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall "
    Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961.
  • End of Cold War

    End of Cold War
    The Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe.
  • Berlin Wall Falls

    Berlin Wall Falls
    The spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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    George H. W. Bush

  • Germany Reunification

    Germany Reunification
    the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city,
  • Iraq invades Kuwait

    Iraq invades Kuwait
    Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was largely motivated by its desire to take control over the latter's vast oil reserves. Led by Saddam Hussein
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    Persian Gulf War

  • Soviet Union Collapses

    Soviet Union Collapses
    The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union.
  • Operation Dessert Storm

    Operation Dessert Storm
    A military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier.
  • Ms. Adcox Born

  • Rodney King

    Rodney King
    Rodney Glen King was an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991
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    Bill Clinton

  • NAFTA Founded

    NAFTA Founded
    The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
  • Contract with America

    Contract with America
    The Contract with America was a document released by the United States Republican Party during the 1994
  • O.J. Simpson's "Trial of the Century"

    O.J. Simpson's "Trial of the Century"
    The O. J. Simpson murder case was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in which former National Football League (NFL) player, broadcaster, and actor Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson was tried on two counts of murder for the June 12, 1994, deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown
  • Bill Clinton's Impeachment

    Bill Clinton's Impeachment
    The impeachment process of Bill Clinton was initiated by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, against Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice
  • My Birthday !!!!

    I was born <3
  • U.S Patriot Act

    U.S Patriot Act
    Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Interfere and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act) on October 26, 2001 in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11
  • War on Terror

    War on Terror
    is an international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001
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    War in Afghanistan

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    George W. Bush

  • 9/11

    9/11
    he September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
  • NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins

    NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins
    the Mars Exploration Rovers, launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars.
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    Iraq War

  • Facebook Launched

    Facebook Launched
    Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California founder Mark Zukerberg
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly tropical cyclone that is tied with Hurricane Harvey of 2017 as the costliest tropical cyclone on record.
  • Saddam Hussein Executed

    Saddam Hussein Executed
    Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity
  • Iphone Released

    Iphone Released
    Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention.
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

    American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
    is an economic stimulus bill created to help the United States economy its purpose, was developed to: To preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery
  • Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State

    Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State
    Hillary Clinton served as the 67th United States Secretary of State, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013, overseeing the department that conducted the Foreign policy of Barack Obama.
  • Sonia Sotomayor Appoited to U.S Supreme Court

    Sonia Sotomayor Appoited to U.S Supreme Court
    President Barack Obama nominated Sotomayor to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice David Souter.
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    Barack Obama

  • Arab Spring

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