APUSH Time Period 7-9

1898

Spanish American War (Beginning of US Imperialism)

1901

Teddy Roosevelt becomes POTUS (Beginning of Progressive Era)

1908

Model T Ford

1909

NAACP Founded

1914

WWI begins in Europe

1917

U.S Enters WWI

1919

Treat of Versailles, WWI Settlement

1920

19th Amendment Ratified (Women rights to vote)

1920s

1st Red Scare

1924

Immigration Quota Act (Johnson-Reed Act)

1925

Scopes Trial (U.S. Increasingly becoming secular)

1929

Stock Market Crash

1933

Worst Year of the Depression, FDR Elected

1939

WWII begins in Europe

1941

Pearl Harbor attack, US enters WWII

1942

Executive Order 9066

1945

Death of FDR, Atomic Bombing of Japan, End WWII

1947

Truman Doctrine

1950s

2nd Red Scare/McCarthyism

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Brown v Board of Education

1955

Emmet Till Murder (call to action for Civil Rights Movement)

1962

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (start of Environmental Movement)

1963

JFK assassinated

1963

Friedan’s Feminine Mystique (start of Modern Women’s Movement)

1964

Civil Rights Act (of 1964)

1965

Voting Rights Act/ Immigration & Nationality Act

1968

Tet Offensive (Turning Point in Vietnam War)

1968

MLK/RFK Assassinations, End of Civil Rights Movement

1969

Stonewall Riots (Start of Gay Right’s Movement)

1969-1980

Detente, Relaxation of tensions between US and Soviet Union + China

1974

Resignation of Nixon

1980

Start of Neo-Conservation Revolution (return to non-secular)

1991

End of Cold War/ Break up of the Soviet Union

2001

9/11 Terrorist Attacks

2008

Obama Elected/ 1st Black President