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- WWII Starts in Europe - WWII starts in Europe after Hitler's Germany tries to take over Russia
- Cuban Missile Crisis - Confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
- Women's Suffrage - The Nineteenth Amendment makes it legal for women to vote
- Atomic Bomb Dropped - The United States drops two atomic bombs: Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the Japanes, causing the Japanese to drop out of the war
- Bonus Army March - WWI veterans marched on the capital to get military bonuses early
- Prohibition - 18th Amendment that banned alcohol and created a black market through saloons
- Haymarket Square Riot - Large demonstration in which someone threw a bomb into the crowd, led to the foundation of the American Federation of Labor
- Purchase of Alaska - Purchase of Alaska from Russia
- Homestead Act - Provided citizens 160 acres of land if they moved and settled Westward
- Salem Witch Trials - Mass hysteria in which townspeople accused each other of being witches
- Dawes Act - Attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American culture by breaking up reservation land and creating American schools for Natives, ended up failing and being counterproductive
- Little Bighorn - Most decisive Native American victory against United States forces
- Indian Removal Act - Forced relocation of Native Americans Ex: Trail of Tears
- Pullman Strike - The Pullman Strike was a large nationwide railroad strike in response to wage cuts and issues with company-provided housing, the government shut down the strike
- Nullification Crisis - South Carolina tried to declare tariffs on foreign goods null and void because they were viewed as "unconstitutional," precursor to Civil War
- Populism/Segregation/Imperialism - The 1890s was characterized by a political movement called populism that focused on labor reforms and better conditions for the working class. Segregation was still very prevalent in the South and the United States was becoming more and more imperialist with territories like Guam and Puerto Rico.
- Seneca Falls Convention - First women's rights convention in the United States, drafted the Declaration of Sentiments
- Dred Scott Case - Supreme Court Case in which Dred Scott, a slave that escaped the South, tried and failed to sue for his freedom because it was established that since he was "property," he could not sue
- Wounded Knee - Massacre of hundreds of Lakota peoples, marked the difinitive end of Indian resistance of encroachment of white settlers
- Annexation of Texas - Formally recognized Texas as a part of the United States as a slave state