2nd Semester Dates of Despair (2023)

Second Industrial Revolution (ROSE)

1870-1914

Dawes Act

1887

Wounded Knee & Frontier Closed

1890

Plessy vs. Ferguson (Jim Crow starts)

1896

New Immigration

1890s- 1920s

Spanish American War / Beginning of Philippine-American War (Anti-imperial backlash)

1898

Great Migration

1910s-1950s

US Entry into WWI

1917

World War I

1914-1918

19th Amendment

1920

First Red Scare

1920s

Dawes Plan

1924

Kellogg Briand Pact

1928

1929 Stock Market Crash

New Deal

1933-1941

World War II begins in Europe with the invasion of Poland

1939

Pearl Harbor/WWII for America

1941

Executive Order 9066 (Japanese internment)

1942

GI Bill

1944

Yalta Conference (Stalin takes East Europe) (beginning of Cold War?)

Feb 1945

Potsdam Conference

July 1945

Cold War (Truman Doctrine-Fall of SU)

1947-1991

Korean War

1950-53

McCarthyism/ 2nd Red Scare

1950s

Brown vs. Board of Education

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955

Sputnik & Little Rock 9

1957

Great Society, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, US ground troops in Vietnam, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Act

1964

Voting Rights Act

1965

Tet Offensive, Bobby Kennedy Assassinated / riots outside the Democratic Convention / Assassination of MLK

1968

Recession, Oil Shocks, massive unemployment

1970s

US Withdraw from Vietnam

1973

Vietnam falls to Communists

1975

Iranian Hostage Crisis

1979

Iran Contra Scandal

1985-7

Berlin Wall Comes down

1989

Desert Storm/ Gulf War / Fall of USSR

1991

NAFTA

1994

Contract with America / Conservative backlash

1994

War on Terror

2001-present