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The 15th Amendment
prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" -
Panama canal was finished
panama canal was made so that ships could pass through central america so they didnt have to go all the way around. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Franz ferdinand was a austrian prince that was suppost to be king but was then assasinated, sparking WWII. -
US enters WWI
US entered WWI because Germany tried to get mexico to attack us. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (French: Traité de Versailles) was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
19th amendment
guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. -
Hitler invades poland
hitler invades poland because WWI left them dirt poor so they inveded other countries to try to regain power. -
Japan bombs pearl harbor
Japan Bombed pearl harbor because they thought all of the US navy ships were there. -
Executive order 9066
Executive Order 9066 is a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. -
US drops first atomic bomb in Japan
US dropped the first atomic bomb on japan to end WWII -
US drops the second atomic bomb in Japan
US dropped the second atomic bomb on Japan because they refused to give up after the first bomb. -
First U.S. military advisors were sent into Vietnam
US President Harry Truman sent the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to Vietnam to assist the French in the First Indochina War. -
March on washington
Martin Luther King's “I Have a Dream” speech became an impromptu addition to the March on Washington. On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
John F. Kennedy assassinated
lee harve oswald assasinated JFK. 2 others were wounded. it was in texas. -
First combat troops sent to Vietnam
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson began sending U.S. ground troops to stave off the defeat of the South Vietnamese Army. At first, Army combat units played a defensive role, protecting Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, and other important cities and bases. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
MLK Jr, was shot and killed at a hotel after one of his speeches. -
when the vietnam war ended
we had been fighting for like twenty years so we finally backed off. -
U.S. supports Afghanistan from invasion of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R)
after WWII soviet union and the US competed for power so when the soviet union invaded afganistan, the US tried to protect them and it sparked the cold war. -
U.N. resolution 678
United Nations Security Council resolution 678 , adopted on 29 November 1990, after reaffirming resolutions 660, 661, 662, 664, 665, 666, 667, 669, 670, 674 and 677 (all 1990), the Council noted that despite all the United Nations efforts, Iraq continued to defy the Security Council. -
U.N. begins bombing against Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
U.N. bombs iraq because they didnt meet the deadline to withdraw from kuwait. -
UN declares victory in the persion gulf war
UN declared victory on the persion gulf war when they killed hudam huisienn.