1600 to 1804
1804 to 1920
1920 to 1975
1955 to Present
World History
100
_Self-rule( theme of Enlightenment) _April 19, 1775 - Lexington and Concord _June- July 1776 Thomas Jefferson writes and Declaration of Independence signed _October 1781 - Battle of Yorktown _Treaty of Paris in 1783 ended the war _1789-end of Articles of Confederation (states' rights) government; switch to Constitution/ Bill of Rights _1775 to 1783 War of Independence from Great Britain
What is the American Revolution
100
_Modern technology/industrialism _MAIN _Militarism _Alliances _Imperialism _Nationalism
What is the World War 1
100
_Part of Cold War _Communism vs Free World _June 1950 to July 1953
What is the Korean War
100
_U.S., allies respond to Iraq's attack on Kuwait _Oil _ August 1990 to February 1991
What is the First Gulf War
100
Who was president during the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
200
_Slaves overthrew French rule for self-rule _Revolt/war in Europe caused Napoleon to make Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which doubled the size of United States _Multiple revolutions throughout Central and South America through 1830's _Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804
What is the Latin American Revolutions
200
_Imperialism: President Roosevelt supported a civil war to gain access to the land _ Faster shipping routes by cutting North an South America in half. _1904 to 1914
What is the Panama Canal
200
_Stock market crash October 1929 _1 in 4 Americans out of work _Prohibition helped fuel the violence of the period _ FDR, the New Deal _ 1929-1945
What is the Great Depression
200
_U2 spy program _Near-nuclear war _October 1962
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
200
What was one large reason for the start of World War 2?
What is the Great Depression
300
_Move from muscle(human, oxen, horse) and water power(where found) to other forms of energy, such as steamboats, railroads _Steel-tipped to steel plows made tilling the ground easier, permitted more food to be grown _Factories/manufacturing instead of farms/agricultural _Pro: work made easier _Cotton gin (1793) made work easier but slavery exploded as result: 850,000 sales before cotton gin in 1800: 1.1 million in 1810: 1.5 million in 1820, 2.0 million in 1830: 2.5 in 1850 and 3.95 in 1860. 1750- 1850
What is the Industrial Revolution
300
_ Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation-Europe would not get involved _ Slavery ended 1865 _ President Lincoln assassinated 1865 _ 1861- 1865
What is the American Civil War
300
_Communism vs Free World/ Cold War _ U.S. replaced colonial power France in Vietnam _LBJ expands U.S. role in 1965 _Protest against war, Kent State (1970) _Cickenhawks _ 1955- 1975
What is the Vietnam War
300
_Afghanistan (2001 to present), the U.S. led response to al Qaeda's attack on 9-11 _Iraq War (March 19, 2003 to May 2012 _ 2001 to Present
What is the 2nd Gulf War
300
The Korean and Vietnam wars were the hot wars during what period?
What is The Cold War?
400
_Overthrew King Louis XVI and his government _Between 16,000-40,000 were killed _Estates General (First Estates General was the church; Second Estates General king/nobility; 93-97% of population in Third Estates General) _June 14, 1789 storming of the Bastille _Declaration of Rights of Man _1789-1794
What is the French Revolution
400
_War began after explosion of USS Maine in harbor at Havana, Cuba. U.S. blames Spain _Yellow journalism, Randolph Hearst _U.S. attacks Philippines (1898-1902) _U.S. Imperialism --U.S. gains former Spanish possessions in Treaty of Pais-Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. _ 1898
What is the Spanish - American War
400
_U.S. vs USSR _Iron Curtain _Hungary 1956 _Berlin Airlift, June 24, 1948- May 12, 1949 _Berlin Wall, 1961-1990 _Cuban Missile Crisis _Czechoslovakia, 1968 _Vietnam _Afghanistan
What is the Cold War
400
_al-Qaeda attacks World Trade Center in New York _Pentagon attacked _Nearly 3,000 people, U.S. citizens and over 400 from around the world, are killed _9-11
What is Sept. 11, 2001
400
The Panama Canal is located between what two continents?
What is North and South America?
500
-Move from Kings/Queens, who have their power from God. -To Self-rule, one man, one vote -John Locke -late 1600s - 1700s
What is the Enlightenment.
500
_Czar executed by Bolsheviks _Communism installed as a form of government _1917
What is the Russian Revolution
500
_Allies- FDR ( president Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England, Josef Stalin, Russia. _Axis Powers- Adolf Hitler (National Socialist Party of Nazis): Mussolini (Fascist Party of Italy) and Tojo (Prime Minister of Japan) _over 60 Million dead _Germany's Invasion of Poland Sept. 1, 1939 _U.S. enters Dec. 8, 1914 after Dec. 7 bombing of Pearl Harbor _June 6, 1944- D-Day, the Allies invade Europe _Holocaust- the death of over 6 Million Jews, Gypsies,mentally ill, political prisoners (Auschwitz Concentration Camp) _ Germany surrenders April 1945 _ Nuclear bombs- Little Boy, dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 1945: Fat Man, dropped on Nagasaki, Aug 9, 1945.
What is the World War 2
500
_U.S. Space program _John Glenn, Ohio, first American to orbit Earth, 1962 _Neil Armstrong, Ohio first man on the moon, July 1969 _Nuclear arms _ Oct. 4, 1957 Russia puts Sputnik into outer space
What is the Space Race
500
The key to the Industrial was the move from muscle power generated by?
What is coal?
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