1900s-2000s wars, depression, and development

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1900s-2000s wars, depression, and development
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1900-1909 Economic revolution

• 1901- J.P. Morgan's US Steel Corp. is first
  billion dollar industry
• President McKinley is assassinated
• 1902- President Roosevelt helps settle a coal
  miner strike
• 1903- Wright brothers fly first plane at Kitty
  Hawk, NC
• 1904- U.S. granted the Panama Canal Zone
• 1905- Roosevelt negotiates end to Russo-Japanese
  War (Treaty of Portsmouth)
• 1906- The great San Francisco Earthquake
• 1908- Ford Company introduces the Model-T
  cost-850

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1910-1919 World War I

• 1911- Sherman Antitrust Act used to break up oil
  company monopoly
• 1912- The Titanic sinks killing over 1,500 people
• 1914- World War I starts in Europe
• 1915- Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine
• 1917- US enters World War I
• 1918- Wilsons Fourteen Points as plan for peace
• 1919- The Treaty of Versailles ends the War 19th
  amendment ratified (womens vote)

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1920-1929 The roaring 20s

• 1920- The 18th Amendment, Prohibition takes
  effect
• 1923- President Harding dies during the Teapot
  Dome oil scandal
• 1925- The Scopes Monkey Trial says that only
  Biblical creation may be taught in school
• 1927- Charles Lindbergh flys solo over the
  Atlantic Babe Ruth hits 60th Home Run
• 1929- stock market collapses Great Depression

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1930-1939 Depression years

• 1930- the "Dust Bowl" begins in the Midwest
  Hoovervilles
• 1931- Al Capone is sentenced to prison
• 1932- Charles Lindbergh's baby kidnapped and
  killed
• 1933- President F.D. Roosevelt elected "New Deal
• 1934- Bonnie and Clyde are killed
• 1937- Steel strike in Chicago (Memorial Day
  massacre)
• 1939- Hollywood film "Gone with the Wind", WWII
  begins in Europe

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1940-1949 War again, and recovery

• 1941- Pearl Harbor attack
• US enters WWII
• 1942- Fermi splits atom, "Manhattan Project"
  begins
• 1945- Atomic bomb test in New Mexico,
  Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, V-E day, V-J day
• 1946- Paris peace conference
• Dr. Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care"
• 1948- Marshall Plan helps Europe
• 1949- NATO treaty

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1950-1959 Civil rights and the cold war

• 1950- McCarthy era begins Korean War
• 1951- Color TV introduced first h-bomb exploded
• 1952- "The pill" produced
• 1953- Lung cancer reported linked to smoking
• 1954- Race segregation in schools declared
  unconstitutional (Brown vs. Board)
• 1955- Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama boycott bus
  lines (Rosa Parks ), Disneyland opened
• 1957- USSR launches Sputnik (first earth
  satellite)
• 1958- US launches Satellite Explorer I

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1960-1969 Kennedy and Vietnam

• 1961- Bay of Pigs invasion fails
• 1962- Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1963- President John F. Kennedy assassinated,
  Nuclear test ban treaty, coup in South Vietnam
• 1965- Malcolm X assassinated
• 1966- Protest against Vietnam
• 1968- Worldwide student protest
• Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy
  assassinated
• 1969- First man on moon, Anti-war demonstrations,
  US troop withdrawal

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1970-1979 Peace and Civil Rights again

• 1970- Four students killed at Kent State
  protests1972- Nixon first visits China
• 1974- Watergate scandal, Nixon impeached 1975-
  Vietnam War ends, Apollo/Soyuz link in
  space1976- Bicentennial celebrations1977-
  President Carter pardons draft evaders1978-
  Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David1979- US
  Embassy staff taken hostage in Iran

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1980-1989 The Me generation

• 1980 Iraq invades Iran
• 1981 -AIDS identified, IBM personal computer
  invented
• 1982- US back Contra rebels in Nicaragua, invade
  Grenada1986-Challenger exploded in space
• 1987- Gorbachev introduces "perestroika" and
  "glasnost ending cold war

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1990-1999 The Electronic Age

• 1991- Iraq invades Kuwait/Gulf War
• 1992- Rodney King riots in L.A., WWW born
• 1993- World Trade Center bombed Waco, Texas cult
  fire
• 1994- Earthquake in L.A.
• 1995- Federal building bombed by McVeigh in
  Oklahoma
• 1998- US Embassies bombed in Kenya,Tanzania
• 1998- President Clinton impeached but found not
  guilty

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And into the 21st century!

• 2001- Twin towers attacked by terrorists (9/11)
• 2001- War in Afghanistan
• 2003- War in Iraq
• 2005 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
• 2008 Democrats win the election
• 2009 Michael Jackson dies
• What will the future bring?....
• Thats all, folks! Now explore for yourself

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