36) Longest "war" the US took part in (1957-1975). Lost more than 58,000 Americans. Memorial wall located in Washington D.C.
Vietnam
100
12) Chicago gangster convicted of income tax evasion. Bootlegger, smuggler during the Prohibition time period.
Al Capone
100
2) Republican President from 1901-1909. "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
100
29) Republican President from 1953-1961. World War II hero. NASA formed in 1958.
Dwight Eishenhower
100
8) Anti-Communist panic in the United States
Red Scare
200
17) 1939-1945. US entered the war in 1941 after Pearl Harbor was attacked. US joined the Allies and won the war.
World War II
200
11) Founder of a famous motor company. Assembly lines sped up car manufacturing and reduced the cost of producing automobiles.
Henry Ford
200
4) Democratic President from 1913-1921. President during World War I. Child Labor Act.
Woodrow Wilson
200
30) Democratic President from 1961-1963. Assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
John F. Kennedy
200
13) Stock Market crashed in 1929. Unemployment increased dramatically. World War II pulled the US out of this.
Great Depression
300
6) 1914-1918. US was neutral when the war began. US enters the war in 1917. Known for trench warfare.
World War I
300
7) Italian immigrants accused of murder and executed in 1927.
Sacco and Vanzetti
300
14) Republican President from 1929-1933. Hoovervilles.
Herbert Hoover
300
33) Democratic President from 1963-1969. Civil Rights Act. Medicare.
Lyndon B. Johnson
300
15) 1935. Huge storms swept over the Great Plains. Economic disaster for farmers.
Dust Bowl
400
24) Started in 1945. Ended in 1991. US / Soviet conflict in which two powers avoided military conflict but opposed each other's political and economic goals.
Cold War
400
32) Civil Rights leader of the 1950s and 1960s. Believed in non-violence. Assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr.
400
16) Democratic President from 1933-1945. Only President to be elected 4 times. Polio forced him into a wheelchair.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
400
37) Republican President from 1969-1974. First President to visit China. Resigned due to Watergate Scandal.
Richard Nixon
400
20) December 7, 1941. Japanese surprise attack in Hawaii. Brought the US into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
500
1) A progressive. She started the Hull House in Chicago to help the underprivileged.
Jane Addams
500
25) Democratic President from 1945-1953. United Nations founded. Ordered atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan.
Harry S. Truman
500
38) Republican President from 1974-1977. Pardoned Richard Nixon.
Gerald Ford
500
5) A canal across Central America linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Completed in 1914. Cost more than $380 million.