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The Industrial Revoluton
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to some time between 1820 and 1840. The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. -
Appomattox
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army. -
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The Reconstruction
Reconstruction Era has two senses, the first covers the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War. The second sense focuses on the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877 -
Imperialism (Spanish American War)
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War. -
World War 1
World War I (WWI), also known as the First World War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.The war drew in all the world's economic great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire) and the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I -
Imperialism (Creation of the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal goes back almost to the earliest explorers of the Americas. It allows sailors to sail in between north and south america, instead of sailing around Afrcia. -
Prohibition/Roaring 20's
The Roaring Twenties is a term sometimes used to refer to the 1920s in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, characterizing the decade's distinctive cultural edge in New York City, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, London, and many other major cities during a period of sustained economic prosperity. Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. -
The Great Depression and the New Deal
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The New Deal was a series of domestic economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. -
World War 2
World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The US joined WW II on December 8th, 1941, the day after the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, HI was bombed by the Japanese Navy. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor 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. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
The Cold War
The Cold War, often dated from 1947 to 1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc, dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the Eastern Bloc, dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact. This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. -
The Korean War
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.The U.S. government viewed American involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam. -
Imperialism (Acquisiton of Hawaii)
America's Acquistion of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. America's Acquisiton For most of the 1800s, leaders in Washington were concerned that Hawaii might become part of a European nation's empire. -
The Gulf War
The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Storm was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, or the First Iraq War, before the term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003 Iraq War -
September 11, 2001
The September 11 attacks, or 9/11 attacks 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 on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.Two of those planes were crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center in New York City -
Invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 19 March 2003 to 1 May 2003. The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland, invaded Iraq. -
Opreation Iraqi Freedom
President George W. Bush addresses the nation via live television and announces that Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun. Bush authorized the mission to rid Iraq of tyrannical dictator Saddam Hussein and eliminate Hussein's ability to develop weapons of mass destruction. -
Operation Enduring Freedom
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.The operation was originally called "Operation Infinite Justice" but as similar phrases have been used by adherents of several religions as an exclusive description of God, it is believed to have been changed to avoid offense to Muslims, who are the majority religion in Afghanistan.
