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15th amendment
The 15th amendment protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders. It confirms the right to vote and lists conditions that are illegal to deny another person the right to vote. Any American cannot be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or being a former slave. -
Completion of the Panama canal
The Panama canal is a 48-mile ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. They worked on the canal from 1881 to 1914. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
A Serbian terrorist group, called The Black Hand, had decided that the Archduke should be assassinated and the planned visit provided the ideal opportunity. Seven young men who had been trained in bomb throwing and marksmanship were stationed along the route that Franz Ferdinand's car would follow from the City Hall to the inspection. While riding in the car with his wife, two shots were fired by a terrorist named Gavrilo Principand. Both him and his pregnant wife died almost instantly. -
19th amendment
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Congress passed this amendment in 1919 and it was ratified in 1920. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919 by Germany and the Allied powers at the Palace of Versailles. It begun in early 1919 and completed in April after several months of hard bargaining, it was presented to Germany for consideration on 7 May 1919. Controversial even today, it is often argued that the punitive terms of the treaty supported the rise of the Nazis and the Third Reich in 1930s Germany, which in turn led to the outbreak of World War II. -
Hitler invaded Poland
The invasion of Poland marked the start of WWII in Europe. Hitler wanted to overturn the treaty of Versailes. He opposed communism and wanted to conquer Russia. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
The bombing of Pear Harbor was was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Executive order 9066
The Executive ordeer of 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. -
The U.S. dropped their first atomic bomb on Japan
The first atomic bomb was dropped over the city of Hiroshima. Three days later, the second bomb was dropped in Nagasaki. Approximately 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 were injured due to the first one in Hiroshima. -
U.S drops second atomic bomb on Japan
This second bombing finally resulted in Japan's unconditional surrender, The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man," on August 11 in the event of such recalcitrance, but bad weather expected for that day pushed the date up to August 9th. -
March on Washington
The 1963 March on Washington attracted an estimated 250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. Participants walked down Constitution and Independence avenues, then — 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed — gathered before the Lincoln Monument for speeches, songs, and prayer. Televised live to an audience of millions, the march provided dramatic moments, most memorably the Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech. -
J.F.K was assasinated
Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. The Warren commision concluded that J.F.K was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald after a 10 month investigation. 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up. -
first U.S military advisors were sent into Vietnam
U.S. military advisors were sent in 1950, but first ground troops were sent in march of 1965. The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. -
first U.S. combat troops were sent into Vietnam
President Lyndon Johnson ordered the first U.S. combat troops be sent to Vietnam. Both communist China and the Soviet Union threatened to intervene if the United States continued to apply its military might on behalf of the South Vietnamese. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated
King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. The .30-caliber rifle bullet entered King's right cheek, traveled through his neck, and finally stopped at his shoulder blade.In outrage of the murder, many blacks took to the streets across the United States in a massive wave of riots. -
U.S entry into WWI
The U.S. joined its allies (Britain, France, and Russia). Many Americans were not in favor of the U.S. entering the war and wanted to remain neutral. Germany formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. -
Vietnam War ends
President of South Vietnam Duong Van Minh surrendered on 30 April 1975. By 11 a.m., the red and blue Viet Cong flag flies from the presidential palace. President Minh broadcasts a message of unconditional surrender. The war is over. -
U.S supports Afghanistan from invasion of the Soviet Union
actually, the U.S. did NOT fight Afghanistan, it was the Soviets who invaded Afghanistan. The U.S. provide military "advisors" who taught the Afghanistans how to drive the Russians out. The freedom fighters of Afghanistan were more than happy to have U.S. help up to the point when the Soviets were driven out. Then they turned against the U.S. Many of the weapons that we provided to fight the Soviets were used against our military when we went after Bin Laden. -
U.N. begins bombing against Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
Three days later, King Fahd met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney to request U.S. military assistance. On August 8th, the first U.S. Air Force fighter planes began arriving in Saudi Arabia as part of a military buildup dubbed Operation Desert Shield -
U.N. resolution 678
Resolution 678 was adopted by 12 votes to 2 against Cuba, Yemen and one abstention from the People's Republic of China. China, which had usually vetoed such resolutions authorising action against a state, abstained in an attempt to ease sanctions placed on it after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and Cuba's position was contradictory as it had voted for or abstained on previous resolutions relating to Iraq, but did not support Resolution 678. -
U.N. declares victory in the Persian Gulf War
President Bush declared victory in the war against Iraq. No weapons of mass destruction, however, were found, leading to charges that U.S. and British leaders had exaggerated the Iraqi biological and chemical threat in order to justify the war. Much of the intelligence used to justify the war subsequently was criticized as faulty by U.S. and British investigative bodies. Hussein was captured in Dec., 2003. In 2004, he was transferred to Iraqi legal custody; tried and convicted of crim