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American Civil War
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Homestead Act
Government let people settle in the west. If they could live there for a year they could own the land. Many of the settlers had no homes in the cities on were tired of living in the crowded cities. -
13th Amendment
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14th Amendment
Gave former slaves rights -
Transcontinental railroad completed
a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. -
Industrialization Begins to Boom
New industries were opened in urban areas. -
15th Amendment
All men can vote -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall gain a lot of power in New York -
Telephone Invented
Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone. -
Reconstruction Ends
The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era. -
Jim Crow Laws Start in South
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Gilded Age
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Light Bulb Invented
Thomas Edison created the light bulb. -
The third wave of immigration
The third wave, between 1880 and 1914, brought over 20 million European immigrants to the United States -
Chinese Exclusion Act
banned chinese from entering the U.S. for more than 10 years -
Pendleton Act
got rid of the spoil system -
Dawes Act
Was posed to "preserve" native Americans, and sell the rest of the land. But the natives didn't like them trying to change their culture. -
Klondike Gold Rush
People traveled north in the search of old. -
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare published in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. -
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Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Annexation of Hawaii
Queen Lili'uokalani was overthrown by party of businessmen, who then imposed a provisional government. Soon after, President Benjamin Harrison submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian islands to the U.S. Senate for ratification. -
Spanish American war
War between the United States and Spain in 1898 fought in Cuba -
Open door policy
All countries had equal footing in Chiba for trading and prevented the colonisation of it. -
Assassination of President Mckinley
William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Political Parties: Republican and Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Domestic Policy: Square Deal (3C'S), Trust Busting , Consumers, Conservation (nature) -
Wright Brother’s Airplane
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
In 1903, Colombia refused to allow the United States to build the canal. The people of Panama overthrew their Colombian government and became independent (which made construction of the canal possible). -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle -
Pure Food And Drug Act
regulates food manufacturers from selling products that are dangerous to the consumer -
NAACP
Organization made to help colored people founded by W.E.B Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and others -
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William Howard Taft
Political Party: Republican Party
Domestic Policy: 3C'S 16/17 Amendments -
16th amendment
U.S. can collect taxes -
Federal reserve act
The Federal Reserve Act established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and which created the authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (now commonly known as the U.S. Dollar) and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. -
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Woodrow Wilson
Political Party: Democratic Party
Domestic Policy: Clayton Anti-Trust Act, National Park Service, Federal Reserve Act, 18th/19th Amendments -
17th amendment
vote for senators -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip -
Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
Poison gas and machine guns were advanced weapons that were introduced in WWI and trench warfare was the kind of battle. -
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World War I
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Sinking of the Lusitania
On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. -
National Park System
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Zimmerman Telegram
1917 message British intercepted from the German government to the Mexican government offering German support if Mexico declared war against the U.S. and offered to return land Mexico had lost to the U.S -
Russian Revolution
1917 uprising that destroyed the Tsarist (Czar) autocracy and led to the rise of communism and the Soviet Union in Russia -
U.S. entry into WWI
U.S. entered WWI as an allied power -
Battle of Argonne Forest
A major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
19th Amendment
women's suffrage -
18th amendment
banned alcohol -
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Roaring Twenties
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Mein Kampf published
Autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. -
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Great Depression
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Hoovervilles
Small groups of houses made outside of towns made up of anything they found -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. -
100,000 Banks Have Failed
Banks failed to pay back the people and everybody lost their money -
Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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The Holocaust
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New Deal Programs
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
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Rape of Nanjing
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Kristallnacht
The Night of the Broken Glass. On this night, November 9, 1938, almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps. -
Hitler invades poland
hitler invades poland starting WWII -
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World War II
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German Blitzkrieg attacks
Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years by relying on a new military tactic called the "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). Blitzkrieg tactics required the concentration of offensive weapons (such as tanks, planes, and artillery) along a narrow front. -
Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
japan attacks pearl harbor. US joins WWII -
Navajo Code Talkers
The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. -
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 that authorized the Army to evacuate any persons they considered a threat to national security. As a result, over 120,000 Japanese people were forced to relocate to one of ten different internment camps around the United States. -
Bataan Death March
The surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando. -
Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe. -
GI Bill
GI Bill, provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. -
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. -
United nations (UN) formed
Roosevelt also sought to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent future wars. The Senate approved the UN Charter on July 28, 1945. -
Germany divided
After Germany's unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945, the Allies divided Germany into four military occupation zones. -
Victory in Europe (VE) Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
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Harry S. Truman
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Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. -
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Baby Boom
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Truman Doctrine
foreign policy to stop the spread of communism -
Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
The last stage, lasting from September 1948 to December 1949, saw the communists take the initiative and the collapse of KMT rule in mainland China as a whole. -
22nd Amendment
President can't serve two terms -
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The cold war
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Arab-Israeli War Begins
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Marshall Plan
Provide economic support to stop communism. -
Berlin Airlift
Truman, however, did not want to cause World War III. Instead, he ordered a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin. -
NATO formed
United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
North Korea Invades South Korea -
UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River
The Yalu River is the border of North Korea and China -
Chinese forces cross Yalu River and enter the Korean War
China joins the battle as North Korea's ally in support of communism. -
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Korean War
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1950's Prosperity
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Korean War
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
They were accused of being soviet spies then executed. -
Armistice Signed
Stopped the Korean war bit never officially ended it. -
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Dwight D. Eosenhower
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Warren Court
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Brown v. Board of Education
There is no place for segregation in educational facilities. Separate schools are generally unequal. -
Hernandez v. Texas
The Court decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial and national groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
Ho Chí Minh led the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the Communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at the battle of Đien Bien Phu. He officially stepped down from power in 1965 due to health problems. -
Warsaw pact
the Soviet Union's response to NATO -
Rosa Parks Arrested
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Polio Vaccine
The first polio vaccine was the inactivated polio vaccine. It was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955. -
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Vietnam War
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Interstate Highway Act
The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. -
Elvis Presley First Hit Song
On January 27, 1956, the first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel" b/w "I Was the One" was released, giving Elvis a nationwide breakthrough. -
Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
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Little Rock Nine
Nine African American students trying to go to a all white school. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Sputnik I
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite.The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Kennedy Vs Nixon TV Debate
It was the first presidential debate between candidates from opposing political parties as well as the first one to be televised. -
Chicano Mural Movement Begins
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
A failed event to try and assassinate Cuba's communist leader -
Peace Corps Formed
Kennedy signed congressional legislation creating a permanent Peace Corps that would “promote world peace and friendship” -
Mapp v. Ohio
The Court brushed aside the First Amendment issue and declared that "all evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Constitution is, by [the Fourth Amendment], inadmissible in a state court." -
Affirmative Action
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John F. Kennedy
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet Union set up missiles on Cuba aimed at the U.S. President Kennedy Ordered a naval blockade on Cuba until the missiles where removed. -
Sam Walton Opens First Walmart
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Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas (1963)
President Kennedy was assassinated while in a motorcade. -
Gideon v. Wainwright
A landmark case in U.S. Supreme Court history, in which the court unanimously declared that indigent criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a court-appointed lawyer. -
George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance (1963)
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The Feminine Mystique
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March on Washington
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gave the executive branch more freedom to deploy troops without a declaration of war. -
Escobedo v. Illinois
Criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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24th Amendment
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Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins
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The great Society
The Great Society was an ambitious series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs spearheaded by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Malcom X Assassinated
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United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
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Reconstruction
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Miranda v. Arizona
The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination requires law enforcement officials to advise a suspect interrogated in custody of his or her rights to remain silent and to obtain an attorney. Supreme Court of Arizona reversed and remanded. -
Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
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Six Day War
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My Lai Massacre
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated (1968)
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Tet Offensive
An North Vietnam attack towards South Vietnam on the Lunar new year holiday. There was news coverage of the attack which started anti-war protest in the U.S. -
Tinker v. Des Moines
Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on Behalf of Student Expression -
Manson Family Murders
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Vietnamization
Vietnamization of the war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops." -
Woodstock Music Festival
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Draft Lottery
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Apollo 11
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Richard Nixon
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Born in the wake of elevated concern about environmental pollution, EPA was established on December 2, 1970 to consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. -
Invasion of Cambodia
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Kent State Shootings
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Policy of Détente Begins
Détente marked a shift in Cold War policy under President Nixon. It was designed to relax tensions with the Soviet Union, reduce nuclear arsenals, and limit military commitments. -
Pentagon Papers
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26th Amendment
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Jimmy Carter
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Nixon Visits China
This was an important event because the U.S. was seeking to improve relations with a Communist country during the Cold War. -
Watergate Scandal
What became known as the Watergate scandal uncovered an intricate trail of wrongdoing, one that went all the way to the White House. -
Tittle IX
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War Powers Resolution
A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without a declaration of war. -
Roe v. Wade
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OPEC Oil Embargo
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First Cell-Phones
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Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend. -
United States v. Nixon
United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case which resulted in a unanimous decision against President Richard Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials to a federal district court. -
Ford Pardons Nixon
President Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. -
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General Ford
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Fall of Saigon
the capital of south Vietnam fell into control of North Vietnam -
Bill Gates Starts Microsoft
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National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
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Steve Jobs Starts Apple
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Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
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Camp David Accords
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Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Conservation Resurgence
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War on Drugs
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AIDS Epidemic
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Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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“Trickle Down Economics”
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Ronald Reagan
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Marines in Lebanon
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Iran-Contra Affair
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The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
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“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
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Berlin Wall Falls
the wall dividing Berlin was destroyed by the people -
End of Cold War
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George H. W. Bush
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Germany Reunification
East Germany officially joined the Federal Republic of Germany in the West, ending 45 years of division and dissolving the communist German Democratic Republic. -
Iraq Invades Kuwait
Iraq invades Kuwait with the intention of taking it over. -
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Persian Gulf War
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Ms. Adcox Born
The day Ms. Adcox, my teacher, was born -
Soviet Union Collapses
The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union -
Operation Dessert Storm
In its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
Rodney King
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Bill Clinton
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NAFTA Founded
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States and entered into force on 1 January 1994 in order to establish a trilateral trade bloc in North America. -
Contract with America
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O.J. Simpson’s “Trial of the Century”
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Bill Clinton’s Impeachment
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War on Terror
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USA Patriot Act
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War in Afghanistan
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George W. Bush
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9/11
The tragic event when terrorist crashed planes into the twin towers and the pentagon. -
My Birthday
The day I was Born -
NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins (2003)
NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers, launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. -
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Iraq war
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Facebook Launched
The social media that everyone used at one point was released in 2004 -
Hurricane Katrina
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Saddam Hussein Executed
The execution of Saddam Hussein took place on Saturday, 30 December 2006. -
Iphone released
The first Iphone was released -
Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court (2009)
Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history. -
Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State (2009)
Hillary Clinton served as the 67th United States Secretary of State, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The ARRA is an economic stimulus bill created to help the United States economy recover from an economic downturn that began in late 2007. ... According to ARRA's statement of purpose, it was developed to: To preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery. -
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Barack Obama
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Arab Spring
The Arab Spring also referred to as Arab revolutions was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution. -
Osama Bin Laden Killed
On this day in 2011, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, is killed by U.S. forces during a raid on his compound hideout in Pakistan. -
Space x Falcon 9
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. -
Donald Trump Elected President
The year Donald Trump was elected
