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Hoover is President!
Hoover is elected president and states right before the depression, "I have no fears for the futire of our economy; it is bright with hope." -
Black Tuesday---The Stock Market crash
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FDR Promises a New Deal
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" -
Rise in dictators
Adolf Hitler along with Benito Mussolini rise to power as a result of economic hardships in Europe -
World War II Begins
On this day Germany invaded Poland and Britain and France declared War on Germany. -
US Enter the War---Pearl Harbor
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Wannsee Conference
During the holocaust, Nazi leaders meet to determin the "final solution to the Jewish question" Either concentration camps or extermination camps. -
D -Day
Operation Overload -
V-J Day
The Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki are bombed with a nuclear bomb created during the Manhattan project. -
The Iron Curtain decends
Winston Churchill describes the seperation between communist and non communist nations. The Cold War begins. -
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy made a statement that he had a list of names of people being members of the communist party. The Second Red Scare begins. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall was a noted attorney during the case and for many others involving segregation. -
Rock 'n' Roll
Elvis Presley became known as the king of Rock 'n' Roll. -
Sputnik Launches
Khrushchev boasted " we will bury capitalism...your grandchildren will live under communism." -
JFK becomes president
JFK says in his Inaugural address states "...ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." -
March on Washington
MLK gives his famous "I have a dream' speech. -
Death of JFK
JFK is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
US enters war in Vietnam
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MLK is assassinated
James Earl Ray shoots and kills MLK. -
"Houston... the Eagle has landed"
Armstron became the first human being to land on the moon. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." USA wins the space race. -
Nixon resignes
The Watergate Scandal forces Nixon to leave his office in disgrace.
