Final Slides

Marcelo Calixto
1900-1910
- Beginning of the Progressive Era
- Roosevelt held investigation for food conditions and
strengthens ICA and the Sherman Antitrust Act
- NAACP was organized
- End of the Spanish American War
- In June of 1906, Pure Food and Drug Act was
passed
1910-1920
- Zimmerman telegram for help to win the war
- Declared WW1
- Treaty of Versailles
- 14 Points
- Teddy vs Taft, Deb won
- Panama Canal was opened up
- Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy
- The Roaring 20’s shortly began
1920-1930
- Tulsa Race Riot where mobs of white people attacked
black residents and businesses in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- The Harlem Renaissance took place
- Beginning of the era with jazz, movies, gangsters,
illegal liquor
- Cars and Henry Ford’s assembly line
- Different types of dances and more unique genres of
music were created
- League of Nations was formed
- Women are granted the right to vote
1930-1940
- 1933, the Good Neighbor policy renounced the
use of force in Latin America and recognized and
began trading with the Soviet Union
- 1936, the Nye Commision; Alleged profiteering led
the US into WW1
- 1935, ban of arm sales to belligerents and travel
on ships
- 1936, banned loans to belligerents
- 1937, cash and carry for non military goods
- 1938, Munich Conference takes place, Hitler
demands the Sudeten leading Britain and France
to approve
1940-1950
- WW2 Starts (1939)
- Homefront Era (1939)
- End of WW2 (1945)
- Holocaust took place, causing 6 million deaths
- Pearl Harbor started WW2
- Race Riots in Detroit and Harlem
- D'Day invasion
- In May of 1945, Germany surrenders
- In August of 1945, Japan surrenders
- NATO is formed
1950-1960
- Eisenhower was elected president
- H bombs were first created as a nuclear
weapon
- The Korean War ended
- Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in front of
a bus
- Very popular Emmett Till Case opened up and
leaded to the Civil Rights Act
- Little Rock Nine crisis happened;9 African
Americans went to Little Rock Central High
School but were prevented from attending.
 1960-1970
- Birth control was available to women
- Vietnam War (60,000 soldiers died)
- Country was tearing itself down, could have caused a
civil war
- Nixon is president and gradually ended the Vietnam
War by using Vietnamisation + More bombing + Visited
China
- Nixon created the EPA
- After his first term, Nixon was re-elected in 1962
- Watergate robbery, Nixon attempted to cover it up.
- Woodward and Bernstein, writing for the Washington
Post, connected the burglars together.
- In 1974, Nixon stepped down from presidency. Gerald
Ford became president after. Later, Ford pardoned
Nixon.
1980-1990
- Jim Carter lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan
- Biggest tax cut in history takes form by cutting $750
billion for 5 years
- Black Monday occured (NYC stock exchange
completely crashes)
- The Berlin Wall slowly starts to tear down
1990-2000
- The Cold War ends
- 27th Amendment is finally passed
- Bill Clinton wins presidency
- Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile
attack on Iraqi intelligence
headquarters
2000-2010
- Bombing on 9/11 occurs (terror
attack on the World Trade Center)
- Safeguarding Equality
- Second Amendment is protected
thoroughly
- Foreign Labor and Immigration was
accepted
- First African American president
was elected/Barack Obama