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USA: 1900-2008
History of the USA from 1900 to 2008
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Undergraduate 2
01/27/2010

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1900
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Galveston hurricane
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1901
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2 inaug: MckKinley, shot by Czolgosz, scceeded Rossevelt
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1903
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Panama Canal Zone, Wright brothers
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1905
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2 in: T Roosevelt
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1906
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St Francisco earthquake
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1908
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Bureau of Investigation (later, FBI)
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1909
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Inaug Howard
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1913
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Inaug Wilson / 17th Amendment: direct popular election of senators
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1914-1918
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I World War (versus Germany and Austria-Hungary)
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1916
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US purhcases (buys) Danish West Indies / Janette Rankin, first woman elected to the House of Representatives
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1917
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2 in Wilson
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1919
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League of Unions meets / 18 Amendment: Dry Law (ends with 21 Amend)/ 19 Amendment: women vote / Wilson dies / Treaty of Versailles (agreements for WW end)
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1921
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Harding inaugurated, peace with Austria and Germany
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1932
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Harding dies / succeded by Coolidge
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1927
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Lindbergh, first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
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1929
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inaug Hoover / Great Depression
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1932
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Caraway, first woman Senate / Earhart, first solo nonstop transatlanic flight by a woman
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1933
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20 Amend: inauguration not March 4 but Jan 20 / In F Roosevelt / New Deal / 21 Amend: end Dry Law (Prohibition)
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1935
Definition
Federal Bureau of Investigation under Hoover / Works Progress Administration (New Deal: giving jobs, helps...) / Social Security Act (seguretat social, per sindicats)
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1937
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2 in F Roosevelt
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1939 - 1945
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World War II: neutrality, 3 in Roose, Pearl Harbor (7 dec 1941), D-Day (June 6 44, Allies Ivade France), 4 in Roose, dies, comes Truman, Victory Eurpe Day (May 7 45), Hiroshima, Nagasaki (aug 45), end.
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1945
Definition
United Nations stablished
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1946
Definition
Philippines becomes Independent / India becomes free (nearly 1947
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1947
Definition
PResidential Succession Act (what to do if not president nor vice president) / creation of Central Intelligence Agency
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1948
Definition
Marshal Plan (postwar recovery) / Berlin blockade /airlift to West Berlin
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1949
Definition
2 in Truman / North Atlantic Treaty Organization (security guarantee before Soviet Union) / Soviets end Berlin's blockade
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1950-1953
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Korean War: North Korean communists invade South Korea, Truman helps non-communists, armistice signed
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1950-1975
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Vietnam War North Vietnam (Communists) and South (non-Communists), USA helps France to keep French Indochina, American disaster
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1951
Definition
22 Amend: president limited to 2 terms
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1952
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Puerto Rico becomes US's commonwealth
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1953
Definition
Inaug Eisenhower / Rosenbergs executed for passing secret "atomic" information to Soviets
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1954
Definition
Accusations of McCarthy / Landmark supreme court: segregation in schools unconstitional
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1955
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Rosa Parks
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1957
Definition
2 i Eisenhower / Federal Troops to support students prevented to enter Central High School (Ark), segregationalist / Sputnik (a year later, American "Explorer I")
Term
1959
Definition
Alaska-49th state, Hawaii 50th.
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1961
Definition
Us cuts relations with Cuba / J Kennedy inaugurated / Bay of Pig invasion of Cuba fails / Freedom Riders: nigger buses
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1962
Definition
John Glenn, first US astronaut to orbit Earth / Cuban Missile Crisis (13 Days)
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1963
Definition
MLKing: "I Have A Dream" / Kennedy Assassinated (Oswald), succeeded by Johnson
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1964
Definition
Johnson: Civil Rights Act (no segregation schools, work...)
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1965
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Johnson: Great Society (elimination of poverty and racial injustice; women vote, freedom...) / 2n in Johnson / State troopers against King's demonstrations / Johnson: Voting Rights Act / killing of blacks in Los Angeles
Term
1968
Definition
King assassinated / R Kennedy assassinated
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1969
Definition
In Nixon / walk on Moon
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1971
Definition
26 Amend: voting age 21 to 18
Term
1972
Definition
Nixon China, Soviet (arms control) / Watergate
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1973
Definition
2 in Nixon / Waatergate revealings / Nixon nominated Ford and Congress swears it
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1974
Definition
Nixon resigns / Ford comes / Unconditional pardon to Nixon
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1977
Definition
In Carter / Control of Canal to Panama
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1978
Definition
End of Egypt-Israel conflict thanks to Carter
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1979
Definition
Iran students take 66 US embassors as hostages, 13 released
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1980
Definition
FBI uncovers bribery (suborn) implicates (US senator, House members...)
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1981
Definition
In Reagan / Delivered hostages / Sandra O'Connor first woman in Supreme Court
Term
1982
Definition
Equal Rights Amendment passes without necessary votes
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1986
Definition
Iran-Contra scandal when known that White House makes arms-for-hostages deals
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1987
Definition
Reagan signs with Gorbachev (Russian) the first arms-control agreement
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1989
Definition
In G H W Bush / Invasion of Panama
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1990
Definition
Iraqi troops invade Kuwait --> Persian Gulf War
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1991
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Persian Gulf War: drive Iraqi out of Kuwait; Iraq accepts terms of UN ceasefire
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1991
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Treaty to reduce nuclear arms with Soviet / Soviet Union breaks up
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1992
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Bush declares with president Boris Yelstin the end of Cold War / Police offers vs black motorist / US troops to Somalia / pardon to convicted in the Iran-Contra
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1993
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In Clinton / WorldTradeCenter bombs / Missile attack to Irak for alleged plot to kill Bush / NAFTA: free trade (lliure comerç) with Canada, Mexico and US
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1994
Definition
Paula Jones against Clinton for sexual harassment
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1995
Definition
troops to Bosnia to "keep" peace
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1998
Definition
Monica Lewinsky sexual scandal / missile attacfks to Sudan and Afg, Kenya and Tanzania's emassies attacked and Iraq / House of Representatives wants to impeach Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice
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1999
Definition
Senate acquits Clinton / NATO wages (fa guerra) against Yugoslavia for deporting Albanians in Kosovo
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2000
Definition
No clear winner between Al Gore and Bush (ballot's mess) / Bush accepts presidency not winning by popular vote
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2001
Definition
Two Towers' attack / Taliban in Afghanistan don't hand over Bin Laden, Britain and US attacks
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2002
Definition
Iran, Iraq and North Korea as "axis of evil"; wage war against them for developing weapons of mass destruction
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2003
Definition
Shoc and Awe (por): Iraq invasion
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2004
Definition
US interim (provisional) government in Iraq
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2005
Definition
Hurricane Katrina, and criticism to the gov for inadequate response to the disaster
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2007
Definition
Nanci Pelosi first woman speaker of House of Representatives / Alberto Gonzales's resingation because the Justice Department fired unfairly 9 federal prosecutors (fiscals)
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2008
Definition
Obama wins McCain / crisis
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