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A massacre in the American Indian War force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory.
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This timeline is about what i have learned about US History from 1877-2011.
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In 1880, immigration to America had reached its all time high.
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By 1914, America, which was once such a small nation to the European countries has now grown bigger than all of them
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In 1917, the German naval threat in WWI prompted the United States to buy The Virgin Islands from Denmark.
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The stock market crash of 1929 touched off a chain of events that brought the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history.
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When the votes were tallied in 1932, Americans made a strong statement for change, and elected Franklin D. Roosevelt as president
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The Neutrality Act of 1939 ended the arms embargo and permitted the sales of munitions on a "cash and carry" basis.
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on December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the naval base on Pearl Harbor, which is near Honolulu, Hawaii http://www.ushistory.org/us/51.asp
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January 1, 1945 marks the date that Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, the most well known death camp from the Holocaust.
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On July 27, 1953 the Korean war came to an end with the signing of an armistice
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The Vietnam War was between North Vietnam with their allies against South Vietnam and their principle ally, The United States. The war ended when Saigon fell to the communists
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In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive as birth control in the U.S.
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in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream' speech at the March on Washington
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In 1980, Reagan was elected as our 40th President. he had a good victory against Jimmy Carter. People went to Reagan hoping he would bring a change in the economy.
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The Apple "Lisa" computer was released in 1983. Sales for "Lisa" were very low. No-one wanted it because of its cost at nearly $10,000
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The Cold War came to an end in 1991 when the Soviet Union Collapsed.
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In April of 1999, two boys entered Columbine High school with guns and shot up the school. They killed 13 people before taking their own lives.
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