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3 years after the conflict began, the United States enters WW1 after Germany sank American merchant ships. -
Germany's dwindling resources led to them creating an armistice, eventually ending the first world war. -
Economic downfall created the loss of millions of dollars and job opportunities across the country. -
Created to improve working conditions in America - standards for work improved, and minimum wage established (25 cents). -
U.S. joins in World War 2 after Japan attacks US by bombing Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. U.S. declared war on Japan and its allies in response. -
U.S. drops atomic bombs on Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese surrenders, and the war ends. -
The UN was created in response to World War 2 to create trust and peace between the nations. -
President Truman sent American troops to Korea to support South Korean forces against North Korea's push for communism. -
After 3 years of war, the involved parties including North Korea, South Korea, and the U.S., come to an armistice, ending the war -
In the Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, segregation of schools was officially ruled as unconstitutional. -
Martin Luther King Jr. heads the Montgomery Bus System Boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in 1955. -
In Dallas, Texas, on a city tour, President Kennedy was assassinated while greeting the crowd. -
Truman sent military forces to aid South Vietnam in fighting against North Vietnam's push for communism. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at a motel while in Memphis to support a strike - he was 39. -
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first human beings to walk on the moon. -
After a large number of casualties built up from the war - President Nixon pulled U.S. troops from Vietnam War.