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The XXth century for the USA
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Ereignisse
ХХ century
USA joined the war
The League of Nations
Wall Street Crash (Black Tuesday 1929)
The economy hit the bottom (winter 1932-33)
The United Nations
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6&9 August 1945); Truman - president
The Zimmermann Telegram (made America join the war)
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (America was strongly against)
thousands of unemployed ex -servicemen poured into Washington ("bonus army")
Neutrality Acts (against selling military equipment or lending money to countries at war)
The attack on Pearl Habor (military strike by Japan upon the US Honolulu, Hawaii; made America enter the war)
The Manhattan Project (on atomic bomb)
Truman (1945-53) The Truman Doctrine, 1947 - to support the Greek Government against the Communists
Eisenhower (1953-61)
John F. Kennedy (1961-63)
"Witch hunt" (search for people who supposed threats to the US)
Lend Lease Plan (by Roosevelt; the right to supply military equipment & goods to other countries without payment)
The Civil Rights Act (by Kennedy; to improve blacks' position)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69)
Richard Nixon (1969-74)
The Watergate Affair (1972-74; made Nixon resign)
Nixon announced the suspension of all offensive actions against North Vietnam, officially ending direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
Gerald Ford (1974-77)
Jimmy Carter (1977-81)
1970s - inflation due to the oil-prises
Ronald Reagan (1980-89)
A case Brown VS Topeka => segregated schools were illegal
Rosa Parks was arrested; started a campaign to end segregation on buses Martin Luther King - then was killed in 1968 NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
The Supreme Court declared that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional
Black ghetto in LA (The Watts riot)
Jesse Jackson announced his candidacy for the 1988 election He was a spokesman for Luther's idea
1960s - Black Americans began take pride in their African ancestry
The NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
The Americans tested the 1st hydrogen or H-bomb
The Dulles's promise to protect Eastern Europe from communism
"brinkmanship" - dealt between USA & USSR
The USSR sent the Sputnik (1st earth satellite) into space
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon (Neil Armstrong)
The Berlin Wall was tore down
Eisenhower agreed to give weapons & ships to refugees from Cuba who wanted to overthrow Castro
The OAS (the organization of American states) to make Latin America to cooperate with one another & with the USA
The Alliance of Progress (by Kennedy) to improve life in Latin America with supplying money
The Reed-Johnson Immigration Act to limit immigration by giving quotas to countries
Henry Ford combined standartisation & the assembly line
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09)
Coal miners' strikes Roosevelt made mine owners negotiate with their workers ("square deal")
Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) "The New Freedom" - series of laws: to encourage trade with other countries, taxes on high incomes, gave more rights to trade unions
The Progressive Laws (forbade to employ children, introduced secret voting, improved safety at work
Herbert Hoover (1929-33)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-45)
Perioden
WWI
WWII
Roaring Years (1920s)
The Great Depression (1929-late 30s)
Civil Rights Era
The years of Prosperity
The Vietnam War (1955-75)
The Civil Rights Movement
The Marshall Plan (to give countries the goods they needed)
The Occupation of Korea
Nicaragua was occupied by American troops