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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, the U.S. acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi. -
The Mexican War
The Mexican- American War marked the first US armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist- minded administration of US President James K. Polk. He believed the United States had a "manifest destiny" to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting was followed by a series of US victories. -
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South. The Civil War began primarily as a result of a long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the US, was assassinated by well- known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, DC. Shot in the president to be assassinated, and Lincoln's funeral and burial marked an extended period of national mourning. -
Banana War
The Banana Wars were occupations, police actions, and interventions on the part of the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish- American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934. These military interventions wee most often carried out by the US Marine Corps,which developed a manual, the Strategy and Tactics of Small Wars based on its experiences. On occasion, the Navy provided gunfire support and Army troops were also used. -
Hooverville
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was the President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930's, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930's. -
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado river, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Woman's role in WWII
During WWII women worked in factories producing munitions, building ships, aeroplanes, in the auxiliary services as air raid wardens, fire officers and evacuation officers, as drivers of fire engines, trains and trams, as conductors and as nurses. Government figures show that women's employment increased during the second World War from about 5.1 million in 1939 to just over 7.25 million in 1943. -
World War 2 female Santa
The second World War saw American women break into many male-dominated jobs. During WWII war called for many men so back home their were many jobs that were needed for men but their were no men. many women decided to help out on many thing including helping building bombs for war. on Christmas their were no men to be Santa so women became Santa for the children to still have a childhood. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. On December 7, 1941 on a Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base. Where the Japanese managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including 8 battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 American people died and around 1,000 wounded in this event. -
Interment of Japanese Americans
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation of and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific Coast. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide during WWII in which Nazi Germany, aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews- around two- thirds of the Jewish population of Europe between 1941 and 1945 Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event during the Holocaust era, in which Germany and its collaborators persecuted and murdered other groups, included Slavs, the Roma, the "incurably sick", political and religious dissenters such as communists. -
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. -
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
Cold War
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin's tyrannical, blood- thirsty rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets resented the Americans' decades- long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community. -
The Korean War
On June, 25 1950, the Korean War began when some 75 thousand soldiers from the North Korean people's Army poured across the 38th parallel. The boundary between the Soviet- backed Democratic people's Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on the South Korean's behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War against America or simply the American War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. -
Apollo 11
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Those were the famous remarks mad by astronaut Neil Armstrong as he made the first human footprints on the moon. The Apollo 11 was the government mission that aimed to have a manned lunar landing which featured the spacecraft "Eagle" launched from the "Saturn V" rocket. The moon landing was arguably one of the most critical landmarks of human civilization and its significance still resonates today. -
Twin Tower Bombing
the September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
