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| US purhcases (buys) Danish West Indies / Janette Rankin, first woman elected to the House of Representatives |
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| League of Unions meets / 18 Amendment: Dry Law (ends with 21 Amend)/ 19 Amendment: women vote / Wilson dies / Treaty of Versailles (agreements for WW end) |
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| Caraway, first woman Senate / Earhart, first solo nonstop transatlanic flight by a woman |
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| 20 Amend: inauguration not March 4 but Jan 20 / In F Roosevelt / New Deal / 21 Amend: end Dry Law (Prohibition) |
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| World War II: neutrality, 3 in Roose, Pearl Harbor (7 dec 1941), D-Day (June 6 44, Allies Ivade France), 4 in Roose, dies, comes Truman, Victory Eurpe Day (May 7 45), Hiroshima, Nagasaki (aug 45), end. |
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| United Nations stablished |
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| PResidential Succession Act (what to do if not president nor vice president) / creation of Central Intelligence Agency |
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| 2 in Truman / North Atlantic Treaty Organization (security guarantee before Soviet Union) / Soviets end Berlin's blockade |
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| Korean War: North Korean communists invade South Korea, Truman helps non-communists, armistice signed |
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| Vietnam War North Vietnam (Communists) and South (non-Communists), USA helps France to keep French Indochina, American disaster |
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| 22 Amend: president limited to 2 terms |
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| Inaug Eisenhower / Rosenbergs executed for passing secret "atomic" information to Soviets |
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| Accusations of McCarthy / Landmark supreme court: segregation in schools unconstitional |
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| 2 i Eisenhower / Federal Troops to support students prevented to enter Central High School (Ark), segregationalist / Sputnik (a year later, American "Explorer I") |
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| Alaska-49th state, Hawaii 50th. |
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| Us cuts relations with Cuba / J Kennedy inaugurated / Bay of Pig invasion of Cuba fails / Freedom Riders: nigger buses |
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| John Glenn, first US astronaut to orbit Earth / Cuban Missile Crisis (13 Days) |
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| MLKing: "I Have A Dream" / Kennedy Assassinated (Oswald), succeeded by Johnson |
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| Johnson: Civil Rights Act (no segregation schools, work...) |
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| Johnson: Great Society (elimination of poverty and racial injustice; women vote, freedom...) / 2n in Johnson / State troopers against King's demonstrations / Johnson: Voting Rights Act / killing of blacks in Los Angeles |
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| King assassinated / R Kennedy assassinated |
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| 26 Amend: voting age 21 to 18 |
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| 2 in Nixon / Waatergate revealings / Nixon nominated Ford and Congress swears it |
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| Nixon resigns / Ford comes / Unconditional pardon to Nixon |
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| In Carter / Control of Canal to Panama |
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| End of Egypt-Israel conflict thanks to Carter |
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| Iran students take 66 US embassors as hostages, 13 released |
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| FBI uncovers bribery (suborn) implicates (US senator, House members...) |
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| In Reagan / Delivered hostages / Sandra O'Connor first woman in Supreme Court |
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| Equal Rights Amendment passes without necessary votes |
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| Iran-Contra scandal when known that White House makes arms-for-hostages deals |
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| Reagan signs with Gorbachev (Russian) the first arms-control agreement |
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| In G H W Bush / Invasion of Panama |
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| Iraqi troops invade Kuwait --> Persian Gulf War |
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| Persian Gulf War: drive Iraqi out of Kuwait; Iraq accepts terms of UN ceasefire |
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| Treaty to reduce nuclear arms with Soviet / Soviet Union breaks up |
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| Bush declares with president Boris Yelstin the end of Cold War / Police offers vs black motorist / US troops to Somalia / pardon to convicted in the Iran-Contra |
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| In Clinton / WorldTradeCenter bombs / Missile attack to Irak for alleged plot to kill Bush / NAFTA: free trade (lliure comerç) with Canada, Mexico and US |
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| Paula Jones against Clinton for sexual harassment |
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| troops to Bosnia to "keep" peace |
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| Monica Lewinsky sexual scandal / missile attacfks to Sudan and Afg, Kenya and Tanzania's emassies attacked and Iraq / House of Representatives wants to impeach Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice |
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| Senate acquits Clinton / NATO wages (fa guerra) against Yugoslavia for deporting Albanians in Kosovo |
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| No clear winner between Al Gore and Bush (ballot's mess) / Bush accepts presidency not winning by popular vote |
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| Two Towers' attack / Taliban in Afghanistan don't hand over Bin Laden, Britain and US attacks |
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| Iran, Iraq and North Korea as "axis of evil"; wage war against them for developing weapons of mass destruction |
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| Shoc and Awe (por): Iraq invasion |
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| US interim (provisional) government in Iraq |
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| Hurricane Katrina, and criticism to the gov for inadequate response to the disaster |
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| Nanci Pelosi first woman speaker of House of Representatives / Alberto Gonzales's resingation because the Justice Department fired unfairly 9 federal prosecutors (fiscals) |
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| Obama wins McCain / crisis |
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