Plessy v. Ferguson
1896
Spanish American War
1898
Treaty of Paris
1898
WWI
1914-1918
U.S. involvement in WWI
1917-1918
Armistice day
11-11-1918
Stock Market Crash
1929
Hawley-Smoot Tariff of ____
1930
WWII
1939-1945
U.S. involvement in WWII
1941-1945
Atomic bomb used against Japan
1945
Pearl Harbor Attack
1941
Civil Rights Act of _____
1964
Voting Rights Act of _____
1965
Immigration Act of _____
1965
Cold War years
1945-1991
Berlin Wall is built
1961
Berlin Wall comes down
1989
Soviet Union collapses
1991
The Red Scare
1920s
The Second Red Scare
post-WWII/early 1950s
Founding of the NAACP
1909
Prohibition in effect
1919-1933
Creation of the United Nations
1945
Creation of NATO
1949
Brown v. Board of Education
Topeka Kansas
1954
Little Rock Nine
1957
Nixon resigns
1974
9/11 Attacks
Patriot Act
2001