Timeline of United States history

Harbor. America will never forget this event. On the this Sunday morning 361 planes launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers and delivered a surprise attack on America’s naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Arguily the most memorable day in US’s history. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and within hours America was deeply involved in WW1, both in the Pacific against Japan and in Europe against Japan’s ally, Germany. The world would never be the same (BGE). This brings many Americans to ask…

July 4, 1776 marked a momentous occasion. On this day, a nation began that would eventually become the planet’s leading power. The United States braved the fires of the American Revolution and endured a bloody civil war, but Americans were far from cleared of civil issues. American women have endured a long history of having constitutional rights denied to them. Specifically, In You’ve Got the Wrong Song: Nashville and Country Music Feminism, writer Claire Miye Stanford delves into the issues…

was designed modernly and in terms of factual technology timeline. The fiction characters drive robotic automotives…

other words, there isn 't anything in the book not based on something that has already happened in history or in another country, or for which actual supporting documentation is not already available.”(Random House for High School Teachers). In this same interview, Atwood says that Gilead is a regression to the Puritan period and the text represents that with present-day characteristics. She states the Puritans did not only come to escape religious persecution but to establish a theocracy where…

President George W. Bush addressed the nation. He called the attacks “evil, despicable acts of terror,” and reassured everyone by declaring that America, its allies, and its friends would “stand together to win the war against terrorism,” (9/11: Timeline of Events, N.P.). Osama Bin Laden may have felt like he had won that day, but what he did not realize, is that he helped America grow…

NASA should have their own fleet to cut costs and to preserve industry secrets when sending classified material into space. It would be easy to say that space travel has been around since the beginning of time. The truth is that when the United States…

October of 1965 the draft increased to 33,000 members, thats almost eleven times more that it had been in February of 1965(History Learning 1). In addition, in May of 1965 the Hippies began showing their hatred toward the draft for the Vietnam War, by doing draft-card burnings publicly and by 1965 Congress ruled that the First Amendment did not grant people to right to do this (X Timeline 1). It is to my believe that many Hippies used the First Amendment as a simple excuse to destroy morality in…

chapter in the book “The New Latino Studies Reader:A Twenty-First-Century Perspective”. Accounting to the struggles of migration while giving a clear emphasis and that not every refugee is treated the same. Lillian gathers her information through the timelines of many great migrations like the rush of Cuban migrants during Castro 's dictatorship and the search of Dominicans and other South American due to the poor living conditions and dangerous lives that they 've lived. The main points…

In the articles “Why Gender Equality Stalled,” “Women’s Rights In Colombia,” and “Famous Firsts in Women’s History,” all of the authors discuss topics involving women’s rights. Within these articles their topics vary from traditional gender roles, violent acts of crime towards women, as well how gender equality has either changed or stayed consistent over time. Women in the United States have made a substantial amount of progress regarding obtaining women’s rights and gender equality, whether it…

2,753 to Heaven On September 11, 2001. America was changed forever when an unexpected terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers occurred. This day in history caused damage and fear to be placed in the heart of every American and even now people of this country are still experiencing the after effects of the tragic event. There were a total of 2,753 deaths between people in the towers, on the planes, and at the pentagon, none of them expecting this on a beautiful Tuesday morning (September 11th…