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Wall Street crash
oct 24, 1929. causes: credit, overproduction, lack of regulations
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
1930, large tariff on imports, stopped inter trade
Emergency Banking Relief Act, Public Works Administration
1933
American Welfare State
protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth
Neutrality Acts
1935, 36, 37
rearmament of the US
Naval Act of 1938, Two-Ocean Navy Act of 1940
Pearl Harbor
1941
Manhattan project, bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Yalta conference, UN
1945
Korean War
1950-53
CIA supported coup in GT
1954
Civil Rights Act
1964
Voting Rights Act
1965
Medicare and medicaid
1965, health benefits for poor and elderly
Vietnam War
1955-75
Brown v. Board of Education
1954
Brown II
1955
Pentagon papers
1971
Watergate scandal
1972-1974
NAFTA
1992
GATT
1997
9/11 2001
war on terror
war in Afghanistan
2001
war in iraq
2003
Homeland security act
2002
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Obamacare, 2010