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125. Open Door policy, 1899: McKinleys Secretary of State asked Russia, Japan, Great Britain, France and German to accept the concept that all nations would have equal trading privileges in China.
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126. Filipino rebellion, 1899-1901: - Spanish American War. Spanish are beaten here first then in Cuba.
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127. William McKinley assassinated, 1901: inside the Temple of Music located on the grounds of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.William McKinley,was shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist.
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128. Theodore Roosevelt mediated a coal miner's strike, 1902: became involved and set up a fact-finding commission that suspended the strike. The strike never resumed, as the miners received more pay for fewer hours; the owners got a higher price for coal, and did not recognize the trade union as a bargaining agent.
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129. Wright Brothers flew the first airplane, 1903: n 1903 the brothers built the powered Wright Flyer I, using their preferred material for construction, spruce, a strong and lightweight wood, and Pride of the West muslin for surface coverings. the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17
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130. Northern Securities Company broken up, 1904: One of the first anti-trust suits filed. Teddy Roosevelt finally made use of the Sherman Anti-trust act against a company rather than a labor union.
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131. Roosevelt Corollary, 1904: Added to the Monroe Doctrine; saying the US would protect business interest in Latin America. Led to poor U.S. - L.A. relations.
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132. Hay-Banua-Varilla Treaty, 1904: Granted the US long-term control of the Panama canal zone
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133. Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, 1906: muckraking book which described the horrifying detasils fo the Chicago stockyards and meatpacking industry
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134. Model T introduced, 1908: Ford motor developed the first mass-produced affordable car
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135. NAACP organized, 1909: Covil rights organizations that worked to end segregation and improve economic advancement
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136. Election of 1912: was a four-way contest, William Howard Taft, Woodraw Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Debs Wilson was elected
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137. 16th Amendment, 1913: Progressive Amendment and Populist idea allowed the government to levy taxes
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138. 17th Amendment, 1913: allowed for the direct election of Senators.
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139. Federal Reserve System created, 1913: is the central banking system of the United States. It was created in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907
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140. Clayton Anti-Trust Act, 1914: Strengthened Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break up monopolies (trusts). Exempted unions from being broken up.
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141. Birth of a Nation, 1915: is a 1915 American silent film co-written co-produced, and directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman,
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142. Pancho Villa's raid, 1916: Raids along US-Mexican border. President Wilson sent the army to search for him, but he wasn't captured.
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143. United States entered World War I, 1917: Isolationist foreign policy was encouraged by Congress's apprehensions about giving other countries a political door into US policies and the cultural melting pot of the United States' population
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144. The Fourteen Points, 1918: presented to Congress concerning peace when the war ended.
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145. 18th Amendment, 1919: was the result of decades of effort by temperance (prohibition) movements and at the time was generally considered a progressive amendment. reand
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146. Versailles Treaty defeated, 1919: one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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147. Palmer Raids, 1920: fears of socialism fueled by Communist takeover of Russia. Attorney General Palmer ordered arrests of arrestsof anarchists and Socialists.
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148. 19th Amendment, 1920: Guranteed womens right to bote in all elections at the local, state, and national level.
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149. National Origins Act, 1924: Aimed at limiting the immigration of southern and eastern Europeans
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150. Teapot Dome scandal, 1923-24: Controversy/scandal during Harding's presidency concerning government accepting bribes for granting oil prices.
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151. Scopes trial, 1925: Court case which challenged the constitutionality of laws which made it illegal to teach the theory of evolution.
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152. KKK marched on Washington, 1925: Klan membership had peaked in 1925. After that, the American Unity League tried to diminish its power by publishing the names of klansmen.
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153. Charles Lindbergh's flight, 1927: emerged from virtual obscurity to almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May, New York to Paris
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154. Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927: famous case involving two Italian immigrants who had been convicted of murder and robbery.
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155. The Jazz Singer, 1927: First feature-length film with running (synchronized) dialogue. End of the silent-film era.
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156. Stock Market crash, 1929: s a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors.
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157. Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 1930: a tariff with rates the highest in history on foreign imports in order to protect their markets from foreign business.
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158. Stimson Doctrine, 1932: Weak response to Japan's aggression in China before WWII
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159. Bonus march, 1932: a thousand unemployed WWI veterans marched on Washington to demand immediate payment of the bonuses promised to them at a later date.
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160. First New Deal, 1933: s a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the United States,\. The programs were responses to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": relief, recovery, and reform.
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161. Good Neighbor Policy, 1933: the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. Its main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America.
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162. Schecter v. the United States, 1935: was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid use of Congress' power under the commerce clause.
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163. Dust Bowl, 1935: poor farming practices, drought, and high winds blew away millions of tons fo dried topsoil ruining the crops of the Great Plains.
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164. Second New Deal, 1935: the term used by commentators at the time[1] and historians ever since to characterize the second stage of the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In his address to Congress in January 1935, Roosevelt called for three major goals: improved use of national resources, security against old age, unemployment and illness, and slum clearance, as well as a national welfare program (the WPA) to replace state relief efforts
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165. Wagner Act, 1935: Law that replaced the labor provisions of the National Recovery Administration that was declared unconstitutional.
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166. Social Security Act, 1935: federal insurance program based upon the automatic collection of taxes from employees and employers throughout peoples working careers.
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167. Huey Long assassinated, 1935: Senator from Louisiana who gained attentiion by promising minimum income of 5,000- was killed
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168. Congress of Industrial Organizations created, 1935: proposed by John L. Lewis in 1932, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955.
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169. FDR's court-packing plan, 1937: FDR tried to add a new Supreme Court Justice for every justice over the age of 70. He wanted to do this because the SC was ruling against many of his New Deal programs. The court-packing plan failed.
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170. Roosevelt recession, 1937-38: was a temporary reversal of the pre-war 1933 to 1941 economic recovery from the Great Depression in the United States
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171. Lend-Lease Act, 1940: Arms and ships for cash or credit to Great Britain. Seemed to break neutrality stance.
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172. Atlantic Charter, 1941: as a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the United Kingdom and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies
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173. Pearl Harbor, 1941: Japanese surprise attack on the naval fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941
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174. Japanese-American internment, 1942: as the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States
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175. Normandy invasion, 1944: was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord in World War II. The invasion was the largest amphibious operation in history.
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176. G.I. Bill, 1944: Bill which assisted in transitioning the 15 million returning veterans to a peacetime economy.
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177. Yalta Conference, 1945: the site at which the Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin) agreed on what to do after victory in Europe.
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178. Potsdam Conference, 1945: articipants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The three nations were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill
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179. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945: he United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities These two events are the only active deployments of nuclear weapons in war to date.[2]
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180. "Iron Curtain" speech, 1946: a metaphor used throughout the Cold War to refer to the Soviet satellite states of Eastern Europe
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181. Truman Doctrine, 1947: the policy taken by the United States for decades to combat the growth of Communism in other countries. made the US support Greece agaisnt communism
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182. Marshall Plan, 1947: The U.S. gave 12 million dollars European countries to help after the wars casualties. France accepted and the Soviet Union refused
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183. Taft-Hartley Act, 1947: a republican sponsered law to check the growing power of unions.
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184. Brooklyn Dodgers sign Jackie Robinson, 1947: was the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era.
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185. National Security Act, 1947: was signed by United States President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1947, and realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II
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186. Berlin Airlift, 1948: British and American planes that sent supplies to the people of West Berlin after being cut off by the Soviet Union
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187. Election of 1948: as the greatest election upset in American history. Virtually every prediction (with or without public opinion polls) indicated that incumbent President Harry S. Truman would be defeated by Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Truman won, overcoming a three-way split in his own party
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188. NATO formed, 1949: An organization formed to unite the U.S. with Allies. The Soviet Union responded with the Warsaw Pact.
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189. Joseph McCarthy attacked the State Department, 1950: The Second Red Scare included the Senator accusing many government officials of Communist ties, especially those in the State department.
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190. Korean War, 1950-53: was a military conflict between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II.
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191. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed, 1953: were American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. The charges related to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. This was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history
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192. Brown v. the Board of Education, 1954: The desegregation of all public schools. Thurgood Marsahll was the lawyer, which would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, the decision was ruled by Chief Justice Earl Warren. Overturning the case of Plessy v. Fergurson.
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193. Geneva Accords, 1954: split Vietnam at the 17th parallel following the French-Indochina War between Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh and the French
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194. Joseph McCarthy condemned for misconduct, 1954: McCarthy's bullying tactics and lack of evidence caused the public to turn against him, especially after his army hearings were televised.
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195. Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-56: Boycott against how Rosa Parks was arrested for not getting of her seat. Started the civil rights movement.
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196. Interstate Highway Act, 1956: A highway had to be constructed to travel between states. when Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. With an original authorization of 25 billion dollars for the construction of the Interstate Highway System supposedly over a 20-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history through that time
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197. Integration of Little Rock High School, 1957: Nine students who would get to be part of of a desegregated high school.
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198. Sputnik, 1957: A Russian satellite, which was the first to be launched succesfully into space. Started the Space Race.
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199. U-2 aircraft shot down by U.S.S.R., 1960: during the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace.
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200. Greensboro sit-ins, 1960: Civil Rights tactic of sitting in segregated restaurants until being served or removed. Kicks off in Greensboro, NC at Woolworth's lunch counter.
