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History
The History Guide -- What is History? (History doesn't exactly have a date.) Definition: "the study of past events, particularly in human affairs." "Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time." Frederick Jackson Turner -
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age [ushistory.org] "After the war, beginning with the railroads, small businesses grew larger and larger. By the century's end, the nation's economy was dominated by a few, very powerful individuals." The American economy kept on growing and after a while the U.S. had been one of the worlds largest industrial nations ever. -
The Wounded Knee Massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre [ushistory.org] There had been at least 300 men, women and children who had died. "This massacre marked the last showdown between Native Americans and the United States Army." -
USS Maine
"Remember the Maine!" [ushistory.org] "The immediate assumption was that the sinking of the Maine and the concomitant deaths of 260 sailors was the result of Spanish treachery." Teller Amendment was passed not long after, which had pretty much promised that America would not take over the islands. -
Remember the Maine
"Remember the Maine!" [ushistory.org] "A sudden and shocking explosion tore a hole in the hull of the American battleship Maine, which had been on patrol in Havana harbor." 260 sailors had died. -
The Battle of Verdun
The Great War . Maps & Battles . The Battleof Verdun | PBS 300,000 French and Germans had been killed and there was over 750,000 who had been wounded. -
War Loans
Revisions diagram - WW1 Revisions - www.SchoolHistory.co.uk By 1917 The USA had given Britain and France big amounts of money. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression [ushistory.org] "The stock market crash of 1929 touched off a chain of events that plunged the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history." Profits rose and wages increased. -
Farming Problems
The Farming Problem [ushistory.org] "Much of the Roaring '20s was a continual cycle of debt for the American farmer, stemming from falling farm prices and the need to purchase expensive machinery." -
Equal Rights
The Equal Rights Amendment [ushistory.org]"a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution stating that civil rights may not be denied on the basis of one's sex." -
Pearl Harbor
Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941 2,403 dead, 188 planes/aircrafts destroyed and there was also 8 battleships that were either damaged or destroyed. -
D-Day
D-Day June 6, 1944 There had been around 5,000 ships and 1,300 aircrafts that had something to do with D-Day. More than 9,000 had either been killed or wounded. -
United Nations
The United Nations [ushistory.org] "An international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperations." Franklin, Churchill and Staling came up with the United Nations idea. "The UN gives cause for believe that nations can get along together." -
Nuclear Weapons
American Experience . Race for the Superbomb . Maps | PBS “A nuclear weapons is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions.” 2,057 tests. Soviet Union and the United States had both signed a treaty that banned nuclear weapons to be tested in the atmosphere, in outer space, underground and underwater. -
"Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott"
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott [ushistory.org] The only thing Rosa Parks did was sit down. When the bus gets full, blacks had to get up and stand so white’s could sit down. Rosa and a few others were asked to move, she decided not to, she had been arrested and was fined $10. -
Election of 1960
The Election of 1960 [ushistory.org]"When the votes were tallied in November, Kennedy earned 49.7% of the popular vote to Nixon's 49.5%. Kennedy polled only about 100,000 more votes than Nixon out of over 68 million votes cast. The electoral college awarded the election to Kennedy by a 303-219 margin, despite Nixon winning more states than Kennedy." -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Superpower Raltions - the Cold War - online revision lesson - SchoolHistory.co.ukv"The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the US, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in the early 1960s during the Cold War." -
Life in the 1980s
Life in the 1980s [ushistory.org]"One major transformation was the new, expanded role of television. " The television had a huge impact on the music industry. Some other things that were created were the videocassette recorder, computer, etc. "Perhaps the product that introduced the greatest change in American lifestyles of the 1980s was the personal computer." -
The End of the Cold War
"When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985, no one predicted the revolution he would bring." "Others pointed out that no one really won the Cold War. The United States spent trillions of dollars arming themselves for a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union that fortunately never came. Regardless, thousands of American lives were lost waging proxy wars in Korea and Vietnam." -
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Desert Storm [ushistory.org]It was also called the Persian Gulf War. "The disaster to the environment grew as Iraq dumped oil into the Persian Gulf." There had been around 148 Americans that died in this battle. -
"Rep. Kind must realize Somali Americans are allies"
Rep. Kind must realize Somali Americans are allies - CNN.com A meeting about the recruitment of Somali-Americans. "Wednesday's hearing is the third the Republican from New York has held on radicalization within the Muslim community."
