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American Civil War
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Homestead Act
Homestead act motivated people to settle west by giving them land. -
13th Amendment
Free -
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Reconstruction
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14th Amendment
Citizens -
• Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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• Industrialization Begins to Boom
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15th Amendment
Vote (all men) -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
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• Telephone Invented
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. -
• Reconstruction Ends
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Jim Crow Laws Start in South
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Gilded Age
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• Light Bulb Invented
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• Third Wave of Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Exclusion Act restricted Chinese immigrants into the United States for 10 years. -
Pendleton Act
The Pendleton Act was a law that said that positions should be earned by merit and not because you know them -
• Dawes Act
Dawes Act made Native Americans live like normal Americans. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act was a law to regulate the railroad industry -
Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth
Gospel of Wealth is an article written by Andrew Carnegie that talks about how the rich should share their money to help others. -
• Klondike Gold Rush
The Klondike Gold Rush was when many people migrated to the Klondike Region of Yukon in North-Western Canada. -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was a law that tried to prevent monopoly -
Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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Homestead Steel Labor Strike
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Pullman Labor Strike
The Pullman Act was when many employees of the Pullman Factory went to strike in response to their lowered wages. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, Separate but equal -
Annexation of Hawaii
the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. -
Spanish American War
Spanish American War was cause by the explosion of the Battleship Maine -
Open door policy
Open Door Policy was basically equal privileges of all countries trading with China -
Assassination of President McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
Political parties:
Republican Party/Progressive (Bull Moose) Party
Domestic Party: Square Deal ( 3 C's), Trust, Busting , Consumers, Conservation (Nature)
Ensuring he society as a whole not just to one company or person
Big stick Diplomacy-leaders should strive for peace while keeping other nations aware of military power. -
Wright Brother's Airplane
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction begins
Panama Canal was built to travel trough the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean faster. -
The Jungle
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Pure Food and Drug Act
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Model-T
Is an automobile produced by For motor company. -
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William Howard Taft
Political Party:
Republican Party
Domestic Policies:
3'Cs :( 16/17 Amendments
Implement and continue teddy's program.
Dollar diplomacy- To further its aims of Latin America and East Asia trough use of its economic power -
16th Amendment
allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census -
Federal Reserve Act
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Woodrow Wilson
Political Parties: Democrat
Domestic Policy: Clayton Anti-Trust Act, National Parks Service, Federal Reserve Act, 18th and 19th Amendments. -
17th Amendment
The Senate should be composed of 2 senators from each state allowing people to vote for them -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
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World War
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Sinking of the Lusitania
The Germans torpedoed and sank the Lusitania which had some Americans on board. This event is considered the turning point of WW1 -
National Parks System
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Zimmerman Telegram
A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German office that proposed an alliance with Mexico, to attack the U.S. -
Russian Revolution
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U.S. entry into WW1
The United States finally entered the War because of the sinking of the Lusitania and the message of the Germans to Mexico. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
the Battle of Argonne Forest was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
Armistice
an agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. -
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
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Treaty of Versailles
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19th Amendment
19th Amendment is Women's Suffrage -
18th amendment
18th Amendment is the prohibition of alcohol. -
President Harding's Return to Normalcy
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Harlem Renaissance
A cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York -
Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion, real and imagined, of widespread fear and government paranoia by a society or state, about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. -
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Roaring Twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
is an incident that took place during the administration of president Harding. -
Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
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Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Was an American legal case on the teaching of Evolution. -
Mein Kampf published
A 1925 autobiography written by the Nazi party leader, Adolf Hitler -
Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic-Fight
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Is the murder of seven men during the prohibition era in Chicago -
Stock Market Crashes"Black Tuesday"
was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
On January 30, 1933,Adolf Hitler was appointed as chancellor of Germany -
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The holocaust
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Rape of Nanjing
Mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against residents of nanjing. -
Kristallnacht
was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians. -
Hitler invades Poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland and Hitler claims it his. -
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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" -
Tuskegee Airmen
popular name of a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II. -
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 -
Pearl Harbor
was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Executive Order 9066
Was an order to keep Japanese immigrants in concentration camps. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saysain Point, -
Invasion of Normandy ( D-day)
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GI Bill
a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans -
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
The U.S, bombs japan cities with their new bomb. -
Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
The name, V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe -
Liberation of concentration camps
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Victory in Europe (VE) Day
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United Nations (UN) Formed
An organization that promotes international cooperation -
Germany Divided
After World war 2, Germany is split in four. -
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Harry S.Truman
served as the 33rd President of the United States -
Nuremberg Trials
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
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
22nd Amendment
President Can only serve 2 terms -
Mao Zedong Established Communist Rule in China
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Period: to
The Cold War
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Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe -
Berlin Airlift
A massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin -
Arab-Israeli War Begins
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NATO formed
is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries -
Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
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UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
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Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
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1950's Prosperity
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Period: to
Korean War
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
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Armistice Signed
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Warren Court
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Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam
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Hernandez v. Texas
"the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case....Equal protection under the 14th amendment. -
Brown v. Board of Education
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Polio Vaccine
are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis -
Warsaw pact formed
formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
african Americans stop using the bus -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Parks gets arrested for refusing her seat -
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Vietnam War
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Interstate Highway Act
a network of controlled-access highways that forms a part of the National Highway System -
Elvis Presley First Hit song
Elvis first hit song was heartbreak hotel -
Leave it to Beaver first Airs on TV
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Sputnik 1
was the first artificial Earth satellite -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
right to vote -
Little Rock Nine
A group of African Americans attending Little Rock Central High School -
Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
first televised presidential debates in American history -
Chicano Mural Movement Begins
Hispanics start to paint on the walls -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
a failed military invasion of Cuba -
Peace Corps Formed
a volunteer program -
Mapp v. Ohio
was a landmark case in criminal procedure -
Affirmative Action
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John F. Kennedy
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Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Sam Walton Opens First Walmart
Walmart is opened in Rogers Arkansas. -
Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
President Kennedy is shot in the head -
Gideon v. Wainwright
states are required under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to provide lawyers in criminal cases to represent defendants -
George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
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The Feminine Mystique
a book written by Betty Friedan -
March on Washington
A march for jobs and freedom -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
The Great Society
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Escobedo v. Illinois
criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment -
24th amendment
pay no poll tax -
Israeli-Palestine Conflict Begins
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
get rid of obstacles that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote -
Malcolm X assassinated
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United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
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Miranda v. Arizona
admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney -
Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
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Six Day War
Israel fight its neighbors, Egypt ,Jordan and Syria -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces South Vietnam and the U.S. -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam on March 16. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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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 to train South Vietnamese forces -
Woodstock Music Festival
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Draft Lottery
Numbers were drafted to go to the Vietnam war. -
Manson Family Murders
commune established in California in the late 1960's, led by Charles Manson. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon -
Tinker v. Des Moines
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Period: to
Richard Nixon
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Invasion of Cambodia
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Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. -
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
protecting human health and environment -
Pentagon Papers
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26th Amendment
prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old -
Policy of Detente Begins
a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union -
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Jimmy Carter
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Title IX
No person based on sex should be excluded from participating in any education programs. -
Nixon visits China
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Watergate Scandal
Nixon sends men to spy on another candidate -
War Powers Resolution
a federal law intended to check the president's power -
Endangered Species Act
one of the few environmental laws -
OPEC Oil Embargo
imposed an embargo against the United States -
First Cell phones
Martin Cooper created the first cell phone -
Roe v. Wade
laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions -
United States v. Nixon
Supreme Court Case that resulted in unanimous decision against Nixon -
Ford Pardons Nixon
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Period: to
Gerald Ford
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Fall of Saigon
North Vietnam takes over South Vietnam and becomes communist. -
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
encouraging depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of surrounding communities -
Camp David Accords
Peace Proccess -
Egypt-Israel PeaceTreaty
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Period: to
Iran Hostage Crisis
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Trickle down economics
Reduce tax on wealthy people so they can create jobs for the poor. -
War on Drugs
Nixon said that drugs were Americas greatest enemy -
AIDS Epidemic
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Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
First Women Justice -
Conservative Resurgence
detractors labeled it the Fundamentalist Takeover -
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Ronald Reagan
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Marines in Lebanon
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Iran-Contra Affair
Political scandal in the USA. -
The Oprah Winfrey Show First Airs
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“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
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End of Cold war
USA and the Soviet Union stop the cold war -
Berlin Wall Falls
People were free to cross -
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George H.W. Bush
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Germany Reunification
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Iraq Invades Kuwait
2 day operation against Kuwait -
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Persian Gulf War
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Operation Desert storm
The gulf war -
Ms. Adcox Born
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Rodney King
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Soviet Union Collapses
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Period: to
Bill Clinton
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NAFTA founded
North America free trade agreement -
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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USA patriot act
end terrorism by watching on people -
War On Terror
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9/11
Attack on the United States by crashing airplanes -
Period: to
George W. Bush
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Period: to
War in Afghanistan
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Kevin is born
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NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins
NASA rover lands on mars -
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Iraq War
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Facebook Launched
Facebook is a social media application -
Hurricane Katrina
deadly and destructive cyclone -
Saddam Hussein Executed
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I phone Released
The first I phone was released -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
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Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State
served as the 67th secretary of state under Barack Obama. -
Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
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Period: to
Barack Obama
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Arab Spring
Arab populations had faced repression of free speech, human rights abuses, economic mismanagement, corruption and stifling of political dissent -
Osama Bin Laden Killed
Leader of the Islamist group -
Space X Falcon 9
Was Americas most powerful rocket ship yet -
Donald Trump Elected President
45th U.S. President
