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1898
- TR
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF Navy
SPANISH
AMERICAN WAR; for timeline see:
http://www.spanam.simplenet.com/
1899
- SOUTHERN
STATES PASS LAWS TO DISENFRANCISE BLACKS
1900
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT
ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT
1901
- MCKINLEY
ASSONATED – THEODORE ROOSEVELT BECOMES PRESIDENT
- CARNEGIE SELLS
CARNEGIE STEEL COMPANY FOR $225
MIL
1903
-
WRIGHT BROTHERS FIRST FLIGHT
1906 - SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
1908 - FORD INTRODUCES MODEL T
- TAFT ELECTED PRESIDENT
- TR GOES ON SAFARI AND EUROPE
TOUR, VISITS KAISER
- NAACP FOUNDED
1912 - TR RUNS AS PROGRESSIVE… WILSON WINS
- MORE THAN 1000 AFRICAN AMERICANS LYNCHED SINCE
1901
1914
- WORLD WAR I BEGINS IN EUROPE
1917
- "Zimmerman Telegram" -
http://www.nara.gov/
- U.S. ENTERS
WORLD WAR I
1918
- WORLD WAR I ENDS
1919 - TR DIES – CARNEGIE DIES
1923
- GERMAN MONEY HYPER
INFLATES
- HITLER’S BEER HALL COUP ATTEMPT
FAILS
1919
- TREATY OF VERSAILLES, 19TH
AMENDMENT
- HITLER SENTENCED TO JAIL, BEGINS
MEIN KAMPF.
1925 - HINDENBURG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF GERMANY
1929
- STOCK MARKET CRASHES,
DEPRESSION BEGINS
1930
-
HITLER’S NAZI PARTY GAINS
MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT
1931
-
GEORGE’S DAD GRADUATES
FROM COLLEGE / HITLER BEGINS TO TAKE POWER IN GERMANY
- WORST OF DEPRESSION
ALMOST 25% UNEMPLOYED
1932
-
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
ELECTED PRESIDENT
- COMMUNIST PARTY MAKES GAINS IN
GERMANY
1933
-
FDR INAUGURATED “100
DAYS”
- HINDENBURG APPOINTS HITLER
CHANCELLOR
1934 - HINDENBURG DIES, HITLER APPOINTS HIMSELF PRESIDENT - “
FUEHRER”
1936
-
FDR RE-ELECTED
- GERMANY AND ITALY SIGN “AXIS”
TREATY
1937
-
German airship
HINDENBURG BURNS IN NEW JERSEY
1938
-
“MUNICH” – British P.M.
Chamberlain agrees that Hitler can have Czechoslovakia.
1939 - (SEPTEMBER) WORLD WAR II STARTS IN EUROPE with
German Invasion of Poland. In just five weeks Poland
surrenders to Germany. See time line:
http://www.open.org/~talmadge/holocaust/time.html
1940
- (May) Germany
invades Holland, Belgium and France – Churchill becomes P.M.
- (May 30) British evacuate
Continent at Dunkirk
- (June)
France Surrenders
1941 -
(June) Germany invades Russia
-
(DECEMBER) JAPANESE ATTACK PEARL HARBOR – U.S. DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN
-
HITLER DECLARES WAR ON U.S.
1942
- (January) – Germans begin retreat from Moscow area
- (May) 1000 British planes
bomb Cologne, Germany
- (May) U.S. surrenders
Philippines to Japan
- (June) Battle of Midway,
Japanese Fleet turned back with heavy losses.
- (August) American Marines
land on Guadalcanal beginning “island hopping” assault against Japan.
-
(September) Battle of Stalingrad begins
- (November) Americans invade North Africa
1943
- (January) Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca, North Africa
- U.S.
continues island offensive against Japan
- (February) Germans
surrender in Stalingrad, huge loss.
- (July) Allies land in
Sicily
-
British bomb Hamburg,
creating firestorm, killing over 100,000
- (September) Italy
surrenders
- (November) FDR, Churchill
and Stalin meet at Teheran, Iran
1944
-
(January) Soviet troops
now in Poland – Allies land in Italy at Anzio
- (June 6)
Allies invade Europe – D-Day
-
(October) MacArthur’s troops land in Philippines.
1945 -
(February) Dresden bombed
- (March) Japanese still
fighting in Philippines.
- (April) U.S. troops land
on Okinawa (near Japan)
- FDR Dies
- (May) Germany Surrenders
- (June) U.N. Charter
Signed
- (August) Atomic bombs
dropped – Russia declares war on Japan
- Japan surrenders
- (November) War Crimes
Trials begin in Germany.
1946
-
U.S. troops in Korea,
replacing Japanese
- U.S. grants independence
to Philippines (leases bases to U.S.)
- Communist controlled
government in East Germany
1947 - Britain Nationalizes
Coal, radio, electrical
- Marshall plan to aid
Germany and Europe (originally offered to all of Europe, including USSR
occupied.
- Loyalty oaths for Govt.
Workers
- Jackie Robinson becomes
first African American major league baseball player
1948 - Peacetime draft
- Truman defeats Dewey and
is re-elected.
- Berlin Airlift
- Communist Parties gain
control of rest of Soviet occupied Europe
1949 - NATO established
- U.N. headquarters sited
in New York.
- U.S. supported Greek
government defeats Communists in civil war.
- South Africa prohibits
interracial marriages
- Communist Chinese drive
Nationalists to Taiwan, securing control of Mainland China.
- USSR develops Atomic
Bomb
1950 -
U.S. recognizes Vietnam
- McCarthy Hearings begin
- Communists in U.S. must
register
- U.S. bars trade with
Communist China
- Korean war starts, North
Invades South – UN intervenes (USSR absent from Security Council)
1951 - 22nd
Amendment, prohibiting more than two presidential terms
- Rosenburgs found guilty,
sentenced to death (executed in 1953)
- Truman relieves MacArthur
of command in Korea – DM returns in triumph, talk of impeachment… “Old soldiers
never die… they just fade away”… and he did.
- Churchill again elected
P.M. of Britain
1952 - King George VI dies;
Elizabeth becomes Queen
- Eisenhower and Nixon
elected President and Vice President
1953 - U.S. provides military
aid to France to suppress Vietnam freedom fighters
1954 - Brown
v. Board of Education
1955 -
U.S. begins economic aid
to South Vietnam
- Montgomery Bus Boycott;
Martin Luther King becomes prominent.
- Women ordained in
Presbyterian Church
- Churchill resigns as
British P.M.
- U.S. Supreme Court orders
immediate desegregation of schools
1956
-
Eisenhower and Nixon
re-elected.
- Anti-Communist revolution
in Hungary brutally suppressed by Soviet troops.
1957
-
Gov. Faubus of Arkansas
uses National Guard troops to prevent de-segregation of Little Rock High
School. DDE federalizes troops and forces de-segregation.
- Congress passes Civil
Rights act prohibiting discrimination in public. Nevertheless continued
resistance to integration in South.
1958
- First Xerox machine
- Soviets launch “Sputnik”
- First trans-Atlantic jet
passenger service.
- DDE sends U.S. Marines to
Lebanon to suppress Arab nationalists.
1959
- Alaska and Hawaii become
states
- Castro comes to power in
Cuba
- Khruschev visits U.S.
1960 - Lunch counter sit ins
begin in South (beginning of “Civil Rights Movement”
- Castro confiscates U.S.
property in Cuba; U.S. begins embargo
- Soviets launch dogs and
mice into space and bring them back alive.
- Kennedy and Johnson
elected President and Vice President
1961 - US INCREASES INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM
- U.S. breaks diplomatic
relations with Cuba
- U.S. supports abortive
“Bay of Pigs” invasion of Cuba
- JFK institutes the Peace
Corps
- Berlin Wall constructed
- CORE attempts to
desegregate interstate bus lines
- Black Muslims advocate
black power and separation of races
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Military coup (with U.S.
approval) overthrows Diem in Vietnam
1963
- KENNEDY
ASSASSINATED
- Oswald shot by Jack
Ruby – country “stunned” Lyndon Johnson becomes President.
- Medgar Evers – NAACP
worker is killed
- France vetoes British
entry into Common Market
- U.S. Nuclear submarine
with 129 aboard is lost in Atlantic
1964
- Johnson defeats
Republican Goldwater and remains President –Goldwater only got 52 electoral
votes, perceived as a war hawk.
- U.S. Destroyer allegedly attacked in Gulf of Tonkin. Congress resolves
that President Johnson given authority to use all power to repel attacks on U.S.
forces… this resolution formed basis for massive escalation of U.S. military
action in Vietnam without declaration of war.
1965 -
Massive escalation of
U.S. military effort, combined with nightly TV coverage of war and opposition of
liberal news media. Anti war demonstrations become wide spread
-
Race Riots in Watts area
of L.A.
-
5 million color TV’s
-
Malcolm X is shot
and killed
1966 -
More
race riots in many major cities
-
African American Edward
Brooke is elected U.S. Senator from Mass.
1967 -
More race riots
-
Vietnam war continues to
escalate
-
Thurgood Marshall
becomes first African American on U.S. Supreme Court.
-
First heart transplant
-
Black mayors are
elected in Cleveland, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.
1968 -
Tet Offensive
-
MLK
assassinated
-
RFK
assassinated
-
Nixon defeats Humphrey
and becomes President
-
US Submarine sinks, 99
die.
1969 -
U.S. - Vietnam peace
talks start
-
400,000 people attend
“Woodstock”
-
My Lai massacre – Lt.
Calley convicted in 1971
-
Golda Meir becomes Prime
Minister of Israel
-
Yale, Bowdoin and
Colgate admit women
1970 -
Martial Law in Canada
because of Quebec separatists attacks
-
448 Universities and
colleges closed or on strike in protest against war
-
Nixon names two women
generals
1971 -
Constitutional Amendment
(26) lowering voting age to 18
1973 -
VIETNAM WAR ENDS-
NIXON RESIGNS
1980
- SOME OF CLASS NOW BORN
1992 - CLINTON ELECTED President,
2000 - DISPUTED ELECTION OF 2000 - George Bush BECOMES PRESIDENT
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