APUSH Unit 7 Key Events

1898

Spanish-American War; U.S. acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

1899

Open Door Policy proposed

1901

Theodore Roosevelt becomes President (start of the "Square Deal" and active Progressivism).

1903

Platt Amendment (limits Cuban sovereignty; gives U.S. naval bases).

1904

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (U.S. as "international police power").

1906

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

1912

Sinking of the RMS Titanic; Election of Woodrow Wilson

1913

16th Amendment (Income Tax) and 17th Amendment (Direct Election of Senators) ratified

1914

World War I begins in Europe; Panama Canal opens

1915

Sinking of the Lusitania by German U-boats

1917

Zimmermann Telegram; U.S. enters World War I

1918

Woodrow Wilson announces the Fourteen Points

1919

Treaty of Versailles; First Red Scare begins; Schenck v. United States

1920

19th Amendment ratified (Women’s Suffrage); Prohibition begins (18th Amendment)

1921

Emergency Quota Act (Start of strict nativist immigration restrictions)

1924

National Origins Act (further restricts "New Immigrants" from Southern/Eastern Europe)

1925

Scopes "Monkey" Trial (Clash between fundamentalism and modernism)

1927

Sacco and Vanzetti executed (highlighting nativism and anti-radicalism)

1929

Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday); Great Depression begins

1932

Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Bonus Army march on Washington

1933

The First Hundred Days (Banking Act, AAA, CCC, NRA); 21st Amendment (Repeals Prohibition)

1935

Social Security Act; Dust Bowl reaches its peak

1939

World War II begins in Europe with the invasion of Poland

1941

Lend-Lease Act (U.S. as the "Arsenal of Democracy"); Attack on Pearl Harbor (Dec 7)

1942

Executive Order 9066 (Japanese American Internment)

1944

D-Day invasion of Normandy (June 6); GI Bill passed

1944

Korematsu v. United States (Supreme Court upholds internment as constitutional)

1945

Yalta Conference; Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends