The Post War Era:1945-2008
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Updated: 6 Apr 2022
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January 10,1870-Rockefeller incorporates his Standard Oil Company1872-Carnegie visits England and learns about Bessemer SteelJuly 10, 1873-Mark Twain publishes The Gilded Age1873 – Levi Strauss invents blue jeansJanuary 10,1876 – Bell invents the telephoneMarch 4,1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn is as the 19th presidentmarch 4,1881 – Garfield is sworn in as president number twentySeptember 1881 – Garfield is assassinated. Vice President Chester A. Arthur
becomes the 21st president.September 4th, 1882 – Edison invents the light bulbJanuary 16th, 1883 – Railroad companies create time zonesMarch 4th, 1885 – Grover Cleveland is sworn in as the 22nd presidentMarch 4th, 1889 – Benjamin Harrison is sworn in as the 23rd presidentJanuary 1st, 1892 – Ellis Island opensMarch 4th, 1893 – Cleveland is sworn in for his second term and becomes the 24th presidentMarch 4th, 1913 – Woodrow Wilson is sworn in as the 28th president1913 – Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, providing for the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state legislaturesFebruary 21, 1894 – Milton Hershey opens the Hershey factory in Pennsylvania1895 – C.W. Post founds the Post Cereal CompanyMarch 4th, 1897 – William McKinley is sworn in as the 25th president1899 – Bayer creates “Aspirin”September 14th, 1901 – McKinley is assassinated. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26th presidentFebruary 19th, 1906 – Will Kellogg founds the Kellogg company (then called Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company)June 30th, 1906 – Meat Inspection Act is passedMarch 4th, 1909 – William Howard Taft is sworn in as the 27th presidentJanuary 21st, 1910 – Angel Island opensDecember 23rd, 1913 – Federal Reserve Bank is founded1919 – Eighteenth Amendment is ratified, , prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor1919 – Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, granting women the right to voteSeptember 5th, 1939 -U.S. declares its neutrality in European conflictJanuary 20th, 1941 - F. Roosevelt's third inaugurationJanuary 20th, 1941 - F. Roosevelt's third inaugurationOct. 1929 - Stock market crash precipitates the Great DepressionMarch 4th, 1921 – Warren G. Harding is sworn in as the 29th presidentAug. 2, 1923 - President Harding dies suddenly. He is succeeded by his vice president,
Calvin Coolidge.Oct. 1923 - Teapot Dome scandal breaks, as Senate launches an investigation into improper
leasing of naval oil reserves during Harding administrationMar. 4, 1925 Coolidge's second inaugurationMarch 23, 1925 - Tennessee passes a law against the teaching of evolution in public schools,
setting the stage for the Scopes Monkey TrialMay 20-21, 1927 - Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his
plane The Spirit of St. LouisMarch 4, 1929 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st presidentJanuary 1932 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate
to fill a vacancy caused by the death of her husbandMay 1932 - Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a womanJanuary 1933 - Twentieth Amendment to the ConstitutionDecember 5, 1933 - Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, repealing
ProhibitionAug. 1935 - Social Security Act is passedJanuary 20, 1937 - F. Roosevelt's second inauguration1938 - Fair Labor Standards Act is passed, setting the first minimum wage in the U.S. at 25
cents per hourOctober 1945 - United Nations is established1947 - Presidential Succession Act is signed into law by President Truman1947 - Central Intelligence Agency is establishedJune 1948 - Soviets begin blockade of Berlin in the first major crisis of the cold warJanuary 20th, 1949 - Truman's second inaugurationApril 1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is establishedVietnam War -1950- 1975January 20th, 1953 - Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th president1954 - Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy accuses army officials, members of the media, and other public
figures of being Communists during highly publicized hearings1954 - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.: Landmark Supreme Court decision
declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutiona1957 - President Eisenhower sends federal troops to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., to
enforce integration of black studentsJanuary 3,1959 - Alaska becomes the 49th stateAugust 21,1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th (Aug. 21).January 20th, 1961 - John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th presidentOctober & November 1962 - Cuban Missile CrisisAugust 28, 1963 - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I Have a Dream speech" before a crowd of 200,000 during the Civil Rights March on Washington, DCNovember 22, 1963 - President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Tex. He is succeeded in office by his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson.July 2nd, 1964 - President Johnson signs the Civil Rights ActJune 13, 1966 - Miranda v. ArizonaFebruary 10, 1967 - Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, outlining the procedures for filling vacancies in the presidency and vice presidencyApril 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.January 20th, 1969 - Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th presidentJuly 20th, 1969 - Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., become the first men to land on the MoonJuly 1971 - The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18May 1972 - U.S. and Soviet Union sign strategic arms control agreement known as SALT IJune 1972 - Five men, all employees of Nixon's reelection campaign, are caught breaking into rival Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, DCJanuary 1973 - Roe v. Wade: Landmark Supreme Court decision legalizes abortion in first trimester of pregnancyAugust 1974 - Nixon resigns due to the Watergate Scandal. He is succeeded in office by his vice president, Gerald FordJanuary 20th, 1977 - Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as the 39th president1979 - U.S. establishes diplomatic ties with mainland China for the first time since Communist takeover in 1949January 20th, 1981 - Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th presidentMarch 1981 - President Reagan is shot in the chest by John Hinckley, JrSeptember 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court justiceJune 1987 - In a speech in Berlin, President Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to ―tear down this wall‖ and open Eastern Europe to political and economic reformJanuary 20th, 1989 - George H. W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st president1991- Persian Gulf War1992 - Following the breakup of the Soviet Union in Dec. 1991, President Bush and Russian president Boris Yeltsin meet at Camp David and formally declare an end to the cold war.January 20th, 1993 - Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd president1998 - . House of Representatives votes to impeach President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. He is later acquitted. (1999)January 20th, 2001 - George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd presidentSeptember 11, 2001 Two hijacked jetliners ram twin towers of World Trade Center in worst terrorist attack against U.S.2006 - California Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected PresidentKorean War – 1950-1953Periods
Progressive Era: 1945-1962Gilded Age:1939-1945 – WWII – Make a special section for events during WWIIMarch – June 1933 - New Deal recovery measures are enacted by CongressGilded Age:
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