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Module 3 and 4 timeline Flashcards

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Robert E. Lee surrenders to General U.S Grant

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1865 (April 9, 1865 civil war ends)

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Reconstruction

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1865-1877

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General Sherman issues Special Field Order No.15

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January 16, 1865

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President Lincoln is assassinated

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April 14, 1865

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Civil Rights Act passed by congress

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1866

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Ku Klux Klan is organized

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1866

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14th amendment passed by congress

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June 8, 1866

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Ulysses Grant elected president

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1868

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14th amendment ratified

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July 9, 1868

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15th amendment passed by congress

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February 26, 1869

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15th amendment ratified

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February 3, 1870

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Depression of 1873

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1873

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Page Act passed by congress

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1875

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Compromise of 1877

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1877

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Reconstruction ends

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1877

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Immigration Act passed by congress

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1882

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Chinese Exclusion Act passed by congress

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May 1882

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Progressive Era

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1896-1916

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Spanish-American War

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1898

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U.S.S. Maine explodes in Havana Harbor

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February 15, 1898

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Open door policy presented

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1899

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Philippine-American War

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1899-1902

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Boxer Rebellion

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1900

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President Theodore Roosevelt adds Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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1904

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

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1911

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American troops seize Veracruz, Mexico

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April 21,1914

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Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie are assassinated

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June 8, 1914

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Austria declares war in Serbia, starting World War I

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July 28, 1914

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Zimmerman Telegram is exposed

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January 1917

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Tsar Nicholas II regime collapses in Russia

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1917

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Congress declares war on Germany

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April 4, 1917

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Spanish flu (influenza) strikes, killing hundreds of thousands worldwide

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1918

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Bolshevik Revolution

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1918-1923

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Germany launches Kaiserschlacht (Spring Offensive)

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May 1918

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Armistice signed ending World War I

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November 11,1918

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King-Crane commission formed

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1919

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Red Summer of 1919 racial unrest sweeps the United States

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1919

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Stock Market crash known as Black Tuesday

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1929 (October 29th)

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Great Depression

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1929-1939

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff signed into law by President Hoover

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1930

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President Hoover orders the Bonus Army be removed by force

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1932

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president

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1932

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) is created

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1933

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National Recovery Administration (NRA) us created

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1933

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The Germans elect Adolf Hitler as chancellor

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1933

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Senator Huey Long is assassinated

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1935

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Fair Labor Standards Act passed by Congress

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1938

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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II

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1939 (September 1st)

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Japan bombs the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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1941 (December 7th)

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The United States declares war on Japan and her allies

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1941

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President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802
-Order 8802 banned racial and religious discrimination in defense industries

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1941

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President Roosevelt signs the Atlantic Charter

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1941

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President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066
-Executive Order 9066 authorized the removal of people from certain exclusion zones

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1942

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Bataan Death March in the Philippines

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April 1942

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D-day landing at Normandy

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1944 (June 6th)

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U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
-Hiroshima: August 6th
-Nagasaki: August 9th

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April 6, 1945

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President Roosevelt dies

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April 12,1945
-(April 12. Vice President Harry Truman becomes president after President Roosevelt’s death)

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Victory in Europe Day

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May 8, 1945

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50 nations sign the United Nations charter

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June 26, 1945

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Japan surrenders

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August 15, 1945

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President Truman announces $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey

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1947

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President Truman announces the Truman Doctrine

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1947

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The European Recovery Program, or Marshall plan is in effect

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1948-1952

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NSC-68 is issued

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1950

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First sit-ins

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1960

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Freedom Rides

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1961

67
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Albany Movement

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1961

68
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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962

69
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Rachel Carson published Silent Spring

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1962

70
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President Johnson announces his Great Society plan

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1964

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Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed by Congress

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1964

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Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed by Congress

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1965

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Bloody Sunday

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May 1965

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Tet Offensive

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1968

75
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President Nixon announces the Nixon Doctrine

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1969

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Watergate

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1972

77
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Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade

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1973

78
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Supreme Court rules on Miller v. California

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1973

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President Nixon resigns. Vice President Ford becomes president

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1974

80
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Ronald Reagan is elected president

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1980

81
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Operation Desert Storm begins

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1991

82
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The Supreme Court rules counting votes in Florida must end. George W. Bush elected president

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2000

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al Qaeda terrorists crash planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

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September 11, 2001
(A 4th plane crashed in a field outside Shanksville, PA on September 11th)

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President George W. Bush announces the Bush Doctrine

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2002

85
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The United States invaded Iraq

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2003

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