Major Events (APUSH Chapter 7)

Sinking of the Maine

The event where the boat got sunk in the shores of Havanna, Cuba, and the French got blamed for it despite not doing anything. Yellow Journalism got the public.

Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Tragic industrial disaster resulting in the deaths of 146 garment wokers; highlighting the dangerous working conditions and lack of safety regulations in the progressive era

19th Amendment

Woman have rights to vote! Under the guidance of leaders such as Susan B. Antony of the woman’s suffrage association

Lusitania Sinking

German sinks Brit ship, and America is pissed cause Americans died.

Zimmerman Telegram

A secret German message to Mexico supporting the Mexican gov regaining Arizona and texas if they declared war on America. Factor in America’s entry in WW1

Russian Revolution

Occured in 1917 wen Nicholas II was murdered and Lenin sought control to implement his ideas of socialism; mostly prompted by labor unrest, personal liberties and elected reps

Great Migration

The mass movement of African Americans to find better jobs in the North + get away from the Jim Crow of the South.

Red Scare

Blamed Hollywood for communists accusations

Anti-Communism

Fear amongst Americans that communists would take over America and threaten democracy. 

Xenophobia

The fear of immigrants, rapid during the world wars; first with eastern and soouthern europeans but than moved to japanese and other asians

Palmer raids

Series of gov actions aimed at arresting and deporting radical leftists (anarchists and communists) in response to the fea of communism following WW1

Race Riots

resulting from the Great Migrarion and caused by AA getting closer to white community borders. Resulted in violence and the most notable was the East St. Louis Riot of 1917

Birth of a Nation

Controverisal film that depicts the Civil War and Reconstruction era with high regards. However natorious for it’s racist depictions of AA and organizations such as the NAACP challenged the film

Back-To-Africa Movement

Historical movement where AA advocate for the return to Africa founded by Marcus Garvey 

Black Tuesday

event leading up to the stock marker crash and marked the beginnning of the great depression

Stock Market Crash

Occuring on October 1939, marked the beginning of the Great Depression; chacarzed by panic sellers and losing confidance among investors

Repeal of Prohibition

21st Amendment

Japanense agressition in Manchuria

Japan imperialism attempt and led to the second sino

Spanish Civil War

America maintained a strict neurtality policy to intervene with this Civil War and rebellion eventhough it would foreshadow the rise of facism

Battle of the Atlantic

Series of naval battles between 1939 and 1945

D-Day

Allies launch a massive invasion of German occupied France during WW2 making a significant turning point in WW2, led to the liberation of Paris later that Summer

Holocaust

The persecution and geonocide of 6 million jews by the Nazi party in WW2 which also targetted other groups such as BIPOC, homosecuals, disabled people, romani people and more

Battle of Midway

Naval battle that took place in early June 1942 between America and Japan and is considered the turning point of the pacific theater

Hiroshima

The location of the first atomic bomb dropping on Japan in August 9th, 1945

Nagasaki

The location of the second atomic bomb dropping on Japan in August 9th, 1945