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American History Timeline 1900-21st C Flashcards

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1903

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Wright Brothers

Made the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, N.C. (Dec)

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1908

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Bureau of Investigation (a.k.a forerunner of FBI) is established (July)

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1913

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17th Amendment

Providing direct election of U.S. Senators by popular vote rathe than by the state legislatures (Apr)

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1916

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Jeannette Rankin

First women elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (Nov)

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1919

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18th Amendment (Jan)
Prohibited the manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor until 1933 (repealed by 21st Amendment)
19th Amendment (Aug)
Granted women the right to vote

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1923

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Teapot Dome scandal

State launches an investigation into improper leasing of naval oil reserves during Harding administration (Oct)

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1925

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Tennessee
Passes a law against teaching evolution in public schools (Mar)
Sets stage for the Scopes Monkey Trial (July)

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1929

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Great Depression

The Wall Street Crash (Oct) precipitates the Great Depression worldwide

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1931

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The Star-Spangled Banner

Adopted as the national anthem (Mar)

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1932

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Hattie Wyatt Caraway
First woman elected to U.S. Senate (filling her dead husbands vacancy) and is re-elected twice ‘32 and ‘38
Amelia Earhart
Completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman (May)

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1933

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20th Amendment
‘Lame Duck Amendment’ - moved the president’s inauguration to Mar 4, rather than Jan 20
21st Amendment
Repeals the Prohibition

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1935

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Bureau of Investigation (est. 1908)

Under J. Edgar Hoover, it becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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1938

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Fair Labor Standards Act

Sets the first minimum wage in the U.S. at 25 cents per hour (June)

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1939-45

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WW2
Declares war on Japan, then Germany/Italy (Dec ‘41)
Tehran, Yalta (Feb), Potsdam (July-Aug)
First atomic bomb detonated, N.M. (July)
Drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (Aug 6), and Nagasaki (Aug 9)
Japan surrenders (Sept)

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1945

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United Nations established (Oct)

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1947

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Presidential Succession Act
Signed by President Truman, (July) established line of succession (in the event both the President/V-P are unable)
CIA is established

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1948

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Marshall Plan
Included in a foreign aid bill passed by Congress (Apr)
Provides for European postwar recovery
Berlin Blockade
Soviets blockade Berlin, so the British and Americans airlift food/fuel to West Berlin

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1949

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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is established (Apr)

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1950-1953

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Korean War
North Korean communists invade South Korea (June)
Truman, without Congress approval, commits American troops to battle
Armistice agreement signed (July, ‘53)

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1950-75

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Vietnam War
Prolonged conflict between North Vietnam (backed by China and USSR) and the South (backed by U.S.)
Gulf of Tonkin resolution, let Pres take any measures necessary to defend U.S. forces
Last U.S. Troops leave Vietnam (Mar, ‘73)
South V gov surrenders to North (Apr, ‘75)

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1951

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22nd Amendment

Limited the president to two terms (Feb)

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1952

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First Hydrogen Bomb

Detonated by U.S. on Eniwetok, an atoll in the Marshall Islands

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1954

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans

Declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional (May)

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1957

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President sends federal troops to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., to enforce integration of black students

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1958

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Explorer I

First American satellite is launched

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1959

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Alaska becomes the 49th state (Jan) and Hawaii the 50th (Aug)

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1961

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Cuba
U.S. severs diplomatic ties (Jan)
Bay of Pigs invasion fails (Apr)
'Freedom Riders'
Mixed-race group of volunteers travel on buses through the South to protest racially segregated interstate bus facilities (May)
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1962

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Kennedy denounces USSR for secretly installing missile bases on Cuba and initiates a naval blockade of the island

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1963

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Martin Luther King ‘I have a dream’ speech (Aug)

Kennedy assassination, Dallas, TX. (Nov)

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1964

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Civil Rights Act signed by President Johnson (July)

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1965

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Great Society Program
Proposed by President Johnson in his annual state of Union address (Jan)
Selma, Ala.
State troopers attack peaceful MLK and demonstrators (Mar)
Voting Rights Act (Aug)
Prohibits discriminatory voting practices

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1966

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Miranda v. Arizona (June)
Further defines due process clause of 14th Amendment
Establishes Miranda rights

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1968

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Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. (Apr)

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1969

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Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon (July)

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1971

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26th Amendment

Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18

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1972

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Nixon visits Communist China (Feb)
SALT I, an strategic arms control agreement between U.S. / USSR (May)
5 employees of Nixon’s re-election campaign are caught breaking into rivals headquarters, Watergate complex in Washington D.C. (June)

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1973

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Roe v. Wade
Legalizes abortion in 1st trimester
Watergate
Televised hearings to investigate cover-up (May-Aug)
Gerald Ford
1st VP to succeed to the office under the terms laid out by the 25th Amendment

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1974

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Watergate
House Judiciary Committee recommends that Nixon be impeached for obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of Congress
Nixon resigns (Aug)
5 former Nixon aides go on trial, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell serve time

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1977

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President Carter signs treaty agreeing to turn control of Panama Canal over to Panama (Sept)

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1979

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U.S. establishes diplomatic ties with mainland China for 1st time since Communist takeover in 1949 (Jan)

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1980

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Olympics
President Carter refuses to send U.S. athletes will not attend in Moscow unless USSR withdraw from Afghanistan
Abscam
FBI undercover bribery investigation, implicates a U.S. Senator, 7 members of the House and 31 other public officials

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1981

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Sandra Day O’Connor

Sworn in as first woman Supreme Court justice

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1986

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Challenger
Space shuttle explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all 7 crew (Jan)
Iran Contra
Scandal breaks when White House is forced to reveal secret arms-for-hostages deals (Nov)

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1987

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INF treaty
Signed by Reagan and Gorbachev (Dec)
The first arms-control agreement to reduce the superpowers’ nuclear weapons

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1990-91

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Persian Gulf War
Iraqi troops invade Kuwait (Aug, ‘90)
U.S. leads international coalition in military operation (‘Desert Storm’) to drive Iraqis out of Kuwait (Jan-Feb)
Ceasefire (Apr)

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1991

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START I Treaty

U.S. and USSR sign treat agreeing to further reduce strategic nuclear arms (July)

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1992

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End of Cold War
After breakup of the USSR (Dec ‘91), President Bush and Russian president Yeltsin meet at Camp David to formally declare an end to Cold War (Feb)
Rodney King
The acquittal of the four white policeman who beat RK sparks rioting (Apr)

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1995

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Vietnam
U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations
Budget standoff between Clinton and Congress results in partial shutdown of gov (Dec)

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1998

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Lewinsky Scandal
Clinton denies having sex with a White House intern (Jan), later admits the affair (Aug)
House of Representatives
Votes to impeach Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice (Dec), he’s later cleared (Jan ‘99)

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2001

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Twin Towers (Sept 11)
Two hijacked jets ram World Trade Center, a third crashed into Pentagon and a fourth crashed in rural Pennsylvania
More than 3,000 people died
Following air and ground assault, the Taliban regime topples (Dec)

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