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29 Cards in this Set
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1901 |
Theodore Roosevelt becomes President |
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1904 |
Roosevelt Corollary |
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1904 - 1914 |
Panama Canal Built |
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1906 |
- Hepburn Act - The Jungle |
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1912 |
Woodrow Wilson elected |
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1913 |
16th and 17th Amendments |
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1914 |
World War I begins |
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1915 |
- Lusitainia sunk, U.S. intervenes - KKK revived |
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1916 |
Sussex pledge |
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1917 |
- Bolshevik Revolution - U.S. enters WWI |
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1918 |
- WWI ends with Treaty of Versailles |
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1919 |
- 18th Amendment - Red Scare |
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1920 |
19th Amendment |
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1921 |
Washington Naval Conference |
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1929 |
October 29th. Stock Market Crashes |
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1932 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected |
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1933 |
- Bank holiday - "Hundred Days" - NRA, AAA, FDIC, TVA, FERA, CCC - Twentieth Amendment - Twenty-first Amendment - Hitler comes to power in Germany |
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1935 |
- Social Security Act - U.S. begins neutrality legislation |
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1937 |
- Court-Packing Plan - Japan invades China |
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1939 |
World War II begins |
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1940 |
- Destroyers-for-bases deal - First peacetime draft |
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1941 |
- Lend Lease Act - Atlantic Charter - Pearl Harbor |
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1942 |
Battle of Midway |
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1944 |
- Bombing of Japan begins - Philippines "liberated" |
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1945 |
- Yalta - Germany surrenders - Atomic bomb - End of WWII |
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1947 |
- Cold War begins - Marshall Plan - Containment |
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1948 |
- Berlin Airlift - Taft-Hartley Labor Act |
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1949 |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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1950 |
- Korean War - McCarthyism |
