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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
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