US History - Bracketing Dates

1860

Lincoln elected/ confederate states begin

1848

End of Mexican war/ gold discovered in California

1865

End of civil war/ reconstruction begins & Abraham Lincoln assainated

1877

End of Reconstruction era and withdrawal of federal troops from the South. (Hayes compromise) / industrial age

1898

Spanish-American War begins. (Imperialism)

1914

World War I begins, marking a major conflict involving many of the world's great powers.

1929

Stock Market Crash leading to the Great Depression.

1932

FDR elected/ deep in Great Depression

1941

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, leading the US to enter World War II.

1945

pots dam conference/nagasaki & Hiroshima. End of WWII/ Cold War begins

1957

sputnik/Little Rock nine

1963

JFK Asassination/ march on Washington speech

1968

TET battle/ Nixon elected/ RFK & MLK asassinations

1989

berlinwall falls/ Tiananmen Square (symbolic end of Cold War)

2001

9/11 - beginning of war on terror