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Gilded Age
More infoThis period (from the end of the reconstruction era to the panic of 1883) is known for the great economical growth and huge immigration in the US. In this time Great project were developed such as: the railroads construction, factories and mines were exploited. Social change occurred not only with the important wave of immigrants but also with the construction of school and hospital… Some symbols of the era are: Rockefeller & Carnegie. -
Custer's Last Stand
More info On June 25th Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and the seventh Cavalry discovered an Indian village near the little big horn river. Custer ordered his troops to attack without realizing it was he main Sioux & Cheyenne encampment. The battle ended up with an Indian victory and a massacre for the Americans. -
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US history 1877 - 2011
This is my interactive timeline on US History starting from 1877 and ending in 2011. It will show main events and ideas of the period it concerns. -
The Great Upheaval
More info This 45 days strike began after the railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia decided they had enough after a second 10% pay cut. Workers drove the engine into the roundhouse and declared that none would leave until their pay was restored. This strike received the support of the local people and neither the local police nor the National Guard managed to put and end to the strike. Only after president Hayes sent federal troops was the strike ended. But this strike was of great importance -
Spanish- American War
More info On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. Although the conflict wasn’t long, it meant a great deal to Americans who started building their own version of Empire. The war ended in December 10 1898 with the Treaty of Paris, which gave the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the Americans and Cuba obtained its independence. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
More info This fire occurred in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City. This event did not vanished with time it was one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the US history causing the death of 146 workers. This event marked the beginning of Labor Laws that regulated work conditions. -
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World War I
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Building the Canal of Panama
More info Throughout the 1800’s America saw the necessity in having ships go from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific in a faster way. Although many project of diverse countries existed to build a canal in Central America, the US was granted the opportunity to realize the project by helping Panama gets its independence from Colombia. For the cost of $10 millions and an annual fee of $250 000 President Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
More info The sinking of the Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, played a major role in the US entry to WWI. Although it would not happened for the next 2 years, the fact that the German U-boat sank the RMS helped turned the American public’s opinion against Germany. -
Selective Service Act
More info Passed by congress on May 18th 1917 the Selective Service Act obliged males form age of 21 to 30 to register for possible military service. The draft was conducted by a random lottery and this time contrary to previous wars wealthy couldn’t buy their service. -
Harlem Renaissance
More info The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement of the 1920’s it included African American new cultural expression such as Jazz or Blues or even urbanization in the Northeast due to the Great Migration. This movement allowed the African culture to reborn through the African-American one. -
The New Deal, Roosevelt inaugural address
More info “Black Tuesday” (10.09.1929) marked the beginning of the Great Depression the country was sunk into the most severe economic crisis of its history: banks failed, companies went bankrupt and unemployment rates reached the 25%. But thinks got a little better when Roosevelt became president of the USA. He took a series of measures and opened agencies first he solved the withdraw of back money, then he but people back to work and finally he implemented the Social security. -
Invasion of Poland, beginning of WWII
More info On September 1st 1939 Hitler launched an invasion of Poland who unable to fight back surrendered on the 27th. Meanwhile France and Britain standing by the guarantee of the Treaty of Versailles declared war on Nazi on September 3rd and the Soviet Union on September 17th.Poland was now under German occupation as 4 nations engaged on a Second World War. -
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World War II
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Pearl Harbor
More info Japanese attack on American naval base at Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7th 1941 marked a turning point on the US involvement in WWII. The day after the assault president Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan, as a result to this Japan’s allies of the axis: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy declared war on the US thus beginning the late involvement of the US in the second World War. -
D-day: operation Neptune
More info As part of the “Closing the ring” plan, Britain, the US and Canada launched a naval landing on the key point on the coast of Nazi-occupied France. A fight with no major resistance took place and the Allies forces managed to liberate Paris by August 1944. Then Americans, British and recently freed-French raced the Soviets to Berlin. -
A Nuclear Age…
More info As Project Manhattan comes to an end, the world is thrown into a new age: the Nuclear Age. This new weapon came as the proof that men kind is able to create its own extermination. The limited use (Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945) of the atomic bomb was proof enough of the danger it represented. The world has come close to a nuclear war with the Cuban missile crisis and up to today, the nuclear bomb remains a constant threat to mankind. -
Creation of the UN
More info The Creation of the UN was originally promoted by president Roosevelt. He and British Prime Minister Churchill issued a declaration signed by 16 countries in order to create an international postwar peacekeeping organization. When it was first created it counted 51 members today 191 are part of this international organization. -
The Cold War (1947 -1991)
More info The Cold War was an ideological war that opposed two great super powers after WWII on one side was the US promoting capitalism on the other was the USSR and communism. Although no direct conflict ever occurred between the two, the fight to bring new territories into their respective blocs led to indirect conflicts such as the Korean War, the Cuban missile crisis and the Vietnam War. The conflict began with the end of WWII and lasted until USSR imploded in 1991. -
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Rosa Parks unleashes a revolution
More info When Rosa Parks finished her long day at work ad got on the bus she sited on the first row of the “Colored section”, the driver asked her to move to the back of the Bus. When she refused to do so he got her arrested. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. heard the story, he and colleague Ralph Abernathy launched a boycott of Montgomery busses. This marked the beginning of a chain of events that would change America’s history. -
Creation of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
More info Following the publication of Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystic in 1903 a new feminist movement war born. Along with other feminist activist Friedan created NOW in 1966. NOW goals has been to “take action” to bring "full equality for women in America in a truly equal partnership with men.” -
"Login” the invention of a revolutionary tool: THE INTERNET
More info Developed thru several decades, the now called Internet was at the beginning, a project of the Department of Defense. It was primarily used for and by scientist, and other government entities, to communicate with each other. When it got out to the public in 1984, it revolutionized the world to become as we know it today. Communication had just gained another dimension. -
Election of Ronald Reagan
More info Elected twice, Ronal Regan served as the 40th president of the United States. A slogan often associated to him is “Morning in America” which he used in his second campaign. His economical reform is commonly known as the “Reaganomics”: he proposed a 30% tax cut, and to increase the military spending. In his years as president (1981-1989) he tripled the deficit, but he also put an end to the Cold War. -
End of the Cold War, man of the year, decade what about century?
More info Although Regan finished serving his second term as president of the USA in 1989, it is often considered he was the one who put an end to the Cold War. It’s hard to put a real end to the cold war some consider it was ’85 when Gorbachev assumed the control of USSR, some ’89 with the fall of the Berlin Wall and others with the implosion of the USSR. Most important was the role Gorbachev who was named man of the year and decade, and Nixon even thought of him as man of the century. -
Globalization
More info Globalization is a term that has been used since the mid-1980’s to describe the process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations. In 2000 the IMF identified 4 basic aspects of globalization: trade (& transactions), capital & investments movements, migrations and the dissemination of knowledge. It can be said that thanks to the technological progresses such as the Internet globalization has been accelerated in all of its aspects.
