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The Panama Canal
A canal was inevitable. A trip by boat from New York to San Francisco forced a luckless crew to sail around the tip of South America — a journey amounting to some 12,000 miles.
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The Massacre at Sand Creek
A group of voluntary army surrounded Sand Creek. They killed the people in the village in extreme way.
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Labor struggles
From 1865 to 1920, due to the transformation of the entire social structure, make originally is in a state of flow, each isolated labor, also slowly in the direction of the formation of working-class evolution.
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Custer's Last Stand
Custer confidently ordered his troops to attack, not realizing that he was confronting the main Sioux and Cheyenne encampment. within hours General Custer were massacred.
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The Rush of Immigrants
Immigration to the United States reached its peak. I think this is there are both advantages and disadvantages. Immigrants, with their language skills and international linkages, open new, global business and trade opportunities. But American also need to worry about the problem of racial differences
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The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was considered to be a rebirth of African-American arts.
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Battle of Manila Bay
The battle took place in Manila Bay in the Philippines , and was the first major engagement of the Spanish–American War.Americans with Spanish weak weakness, launching an attack to Spain.
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The Platt Amendment
Cuba was forbidden from entering any treaty that might endanger their independence. It defined the terms of Cuban–US relations to essentially be an unequal one of US dominance over Cuba.
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World War 1
In 1915, a German U-boat sunk the liner Lusitania, resulting in many US deaths. Had a profound impact on public opinion.
In March 1917, Germany began unrestricted U-boat warfare, four US ships were sunk.
The US prepared itself for war.
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s.
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is big the imperial Japanese navy in 1941 to the United States navy Pacific base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, an assault operations. http://www.timetoast.com -
America Enters the War
The speech of the President of the United States, inspire the enthusiasm of the American people to resist Japan. This makes the people of the United States after the Japanese enemy attack without fear, but rather more united, defended his country's territory. He inspired the patriotic spirit of the American people. This makes the American people more united in the second world war, made the American people more patriotic.
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The Korean war
The United States on the Korean peninsula has killed ten thousand people, and almost with China and the Soviet union the two socialist powers an all-out war.But americans after the Vietnam war, has almost forgotten the war.So The Korean War is also known as "The Forgotten War" .The Korean war also makes americans realized for the first time, the threat of war exists at any time.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam war is the longest war in American history.More than ten years of the Vietnam war, the United States spent at least $two hundred and fifty billion.Although military America did not fail, but it shows that major mistakes in American cold war strategy.The Vietnam war greatly changed the situation of the cold war.
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A New Civil Rights Movement
a peaceful equality movement began under the unofficial leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A wave of marches, boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides swept the American South and even parts of the North.
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The Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women.“Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
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Reaganomics
The main content of reaganomics is by cutting government spending and control the growth of the money supply, reduce the rate of inflation.Through tax cuts and accelerating depreciation, Reagan's economic development overall mentality is a supply-side tax cuts to deal with economic stagnation, to control the money supply to fight inflation of currency school. http://www.ushistory.org/us/59b.asp -
The End of the Cold War
During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
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Operation Desert Storm
The first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War presented itself in August 1990. Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait.
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Operation Desert Storm
The first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War presented itself in August 1990. Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait.
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The End of the American Century
America's postwar economy was the envy of the globe.A consumer-driven middle class built the highest standard of living in the world.
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The End of the American Century
America's postwar economy was the envy of the globe. A consumer-driven middle class built the highest standard of living in the world.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/60e.asp
