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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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Martinsburg Railroad Strike
Strike was shut down fairly quickly, but it showed other workers around the U.S. that there were others working in similar conditions that were fed up with it. It sparked other strikes and was one of the first strikes in the Great Upheaval.
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Social Darwinsim
The idea that people in society are subject to Darwin's observations in nature. Concepts like 'Survival of the Fittest' (Dates are an approximation. Was roughly from the late 19th century to the early 20th.) -
Spanish American War starts
After U.S.-Spain relations were not fairing well, the U.S.S Maine was sunken near Havana's harbor. The U.S. immediately thought that it must have been the Spanish, and declared war. http://www.ushistory.org/us/44c.asp -
Spanish-American War ends
After a few months of fighting, where the under-prepared U.S. military crushed the even more under-prepared Spanish military, the U.S. gained several territories as its spoils.
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The Roarin' Twenties
Prohibition, start of a consumer economy, people having more free time to ignore prohibition, flappers, spread of the automoblie, a decade that really did roar.
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The Great Crash
Largest stock market crash in U.S. history. One main cause of the Great Depression. http://www.ushistory.org/us/48a.asp -
Bank Holiday
Roosevelt suspended all banking transactions except for deposits from the 6th to the 10th to present the Emergency Banking Act, which sorted banks into three categories to determine their fates. By doind so, he fxed the bank crisis.
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Social Security Act
The Social Security Act gave people over 65 a monthly stipend based on their paycheck and other factors. Lifted some uncertainty about citizens' futures.
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Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack on the United States. It caused the United States to enter the war and fight the Axis powers in two theaters of war.
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Operation Overlord (D-Day)
Successful Allied attempt to open up the European theater into a two-front war. Largest amphibious mobilization ever to take place. The invasion of Normandy was the first of many steps in ending the war in Europe.
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Sputnik Launch
First successful launch into space. Started the Space Race and prompted the creation of NASA
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Modern Feminism
Feminists were pushing for equal pay for equal work, and wanted pass something that prevented gender discrimination.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/57a.asp
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Civil Rights Movement
Got rid of 'separate but equal' and made the people of the U.S. more equal.
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The Tet Offensive
On the Buddist holiday of Tet, the NVA attacked southward quickly and powerfully, they pushed as far south as Saigon and even attacked the embassy there.
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Information Age
Massive discoveries in technology have made it much much easier for people to acess information, whether it be looking up a fact, or talking to someone over the internet.
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The Gulf War
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. U.S. led Operation Desert Shield Became Desert Strom after the Iraqi army refused to leave Kuwait.
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Cold War Ends
The 'Red Menace' was defeated. The U.S. had come out on top and was left as the world's largest superpower
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End of the "American" Century
"The 20th century was called the 'American century'" people were uneasy at the end of the century. The world was becoming more connected, though the U.S. had seen a president impeached, there were genocides, and wars. What was to come was unseen.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/60e.asp
