Robo 17B Top 30 #1

End of Cold War; Fall of Berlin Wall and political changes in Eastern Europe

1989

1968

Tet Offensive in Vietnam; Anti-War Demonstrations; Riots at Democratic

Convention; Assassinations of MLK and RFK

Voting Rights Act

1965

1947

Truman Doctrine

Progressive Era

1898-1917

1945

End of WWII in Europe and Japan

Assassination of John Kennedy; Lyndon Johnson Assumes Presidency

1963

1914-1918

World War 1

Reconstruction Period in American South

1864-1877

1898

Spanish-American War

Election of Donald Trump

2016

1964

Civil Rights Act; Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait

1991

1975

Fall of Saigon, end of Vietnam War

Establishment of Formal Relations with China

1979

1980

Election of Ronald Reagan Marks conservative political swing

9/11 terrorist attacks on World Trade Center & Pentagon and US Invasion of Afghanistan 9/11 terrorist attacks on World Trade Center & Pentagon and US Invasion of Afghanistan

2001

2008

Election of Barack Obama

Assassination of President William McKinley; Teddy Roosevelt assumes Presidency

1901

1865

Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; Andrew Johnson assumes Presidency

Election of William McKìniley/End of Populist Movement

1896

1941

Pearl Harbor/US Enters World War Il

Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision

1954

1964-1973

Direct involvement by United States in Vietnam

Resignation of Richard Nixon/Watergate scandal; Gerald Ford assumes Presidency

1974

2003

US Invasion of Iraq

Election of Franklin Roosevelt

1932

1950-1953

Korean Conflict

Crash of Stock Market marks beginning of Great Depression

1929

1890

Census Bureau announces the end of the frontier