Events
ХХ centuryUSA joined the warThe League of NationsWall Street Crash (Black Tuesday 1929)The economy hit the bottom (winter 1932-33)The United NationsAtomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6&9 August 1945); Truman - presidentThe 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 CommunistsEisenhower (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 WarGerald Ford (1974-77)Jimmy Carter (1977-81)1970s - inflation due to the oil-prisesRonald Reagan (1980-89)A case Brown VS Topeka => segregated schools were illegalRosa 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 unconstitutionalBlack ghetto in LA (The Watts riot)Jesse Jackson announced his candidacy for the 1988 election
He was a spokesman for Luther's idea1960s - Black Americans began take pride in their African ancestryThe NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)The Americans tested the 1st hydrogen or H-bombThe Dulles's promise to protect Eastern Europe from communism"brinkmanship" - dealt between USA & USSRThe USSR sent the Sputnik (1st earth satellite) into spaceApollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon (Neil Armstrong)The Berlin Wall was tore downEisenhower agreed to give weapons & ships to refugees from Cuba who wanted to overthrow CastroThe OAS (the organization of American states)
to make Latin America to cooperate with one another & with the USAThe Alliance of Progress (by Kennedy)
to improve life in Latin America with supplying moneyThe Reed-Johnson Immigration Act
to limit immigration by giving quotas to countriesHenry Ford combined standartisation & the assembly lineTheodore 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 unionsThe Progressive Laws (forbade to employ children, introduced secret voting, improved safety at workHerbert Hoover (1929-33)Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-45)Periods
WWIWWIIRoaring Years (1920s)The Great Depression (1929-late 30s)Civil Rights EraThe years of ProsperityThe Vietnam War (1955-75)The Civil Rights MovementThe Marshall Plan (to give countries the goods they needed)The Occupation of KoreaNicaragua was occupied by American troops
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