APUSH dates

Progressive Era

1898-1917

WW1 era

1914-1918

WW2 era

1940-1945

1898

Spanish American war

1901

McKinley was assassinated/ Theodore Roosevelt presidency

1917

U.S. enters WW1

1929

Stock market crash/ depression begins

1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

1933

New Deal begins

1941

Pearl Harbor/ U.S. enters WW2

1945

Yalta conference/ end of WW2/ atomic bomb hits Japan

1945-1989

The Cold War

1947

Truman Doctrine (containment policy begins)

1950-1953

Korean War

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

Martin Luther King’s March on Washington/JFK was assassinated/Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency begins

Civil Rights Act/Gulf of Tonkin resolution

1964

Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated/Tet offensive in Vietnam

1968

1974

Watergate/Nixon Resigns/Gerald R. Ford presidency begins

1975

US exits Vietnam

1979-1981

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1980

Ronald Reagan elected

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall/End of the Cold War

2001

September 11th terrorist attacks

1492

Columbus arrives

1607

Jamestown settled

1619

VA House of Burgesses & First Slaves Arrive

1620

Plymouth

1754-1763

French and Indian War Era

1763

French and Indian War Ends / Pontiacs Rebellion & Proclamation of 1763

1775-1783

Revolutionary War Era

1776

Declaration of Independence

1781

Articles of confederation

1787

Constitutional convention

1789

Washington presidency begins

1791

Bill of rights