AMERICAN AFFAIRS Welcome to the US!

1900s-2000s
wars, depression, and
development
1900-1909: Economic
revolution
1901- J.P. Morgan's US Steel Corp. is first billion
dollar industry
President McKinley is assassinated
1902- President Roosevelt helps settle a coal
miner strike
1903- Wright brothers fly first plane at Kitty
Hawk, NC
1904- U.S. granted the Panama Canal Zone
1905- Roosevelt negotiates end to Russo-Japanese
War （Treaty of Portsmouth)
1906- The great San Francisco Earthquake
1908- Ford Company introduces the Model-T;
cost-$850
1910-1919: World War I
1911- Sherman Antitrust Act used to break up
oil company monopoly
1912- The Titanic sinks killing over 1,500
people
1914- World War I starts in Europe
1915- Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine
1917- US enters World War I
1918- Wilson’s Fourteen Points as plan for
peace
1919- The Treaty of Versailles ends the War;
19th amendment ratified (women’s vote)
1920-1929: The roaring 20s
1920- The 18th Amendment, Prohibition
takes effect
1923- President Harding dies during the
Teapot Dome oil scandal
1925- The Scopes Monkey Trial says
that only Biblical creation may be
taught in school
1927- Charles Lindbergh flys solo over
the Atlantic; Babe Ruth hits 60th Home
Run
1929- stock market collapses; Great
Depression
1930-1939: Depression years
1930- the "Dust Bowl" begins in the
Midwest “Hoovervilles”
1931- Al Capone is sentenced to
prison
1932- Charles Lindbergh's baby
kidnapped and killed
1933- President F.D. Roosevelt
elected "New Deal“
1934- Bonnie and Clyde are killed
1937- Steel strike in Chicago
(Memorial Day massacre)
1939- Hollywood film "Gone with the
Wind", WWII begins in Europe
1940-1949: War again, and
recovery
1941- Pearl Harbor attack
US enters WWII
1942- Fermi splits atom, "Manhattan
Project" begins
1945- Atomic bomb test in New Mexico,
Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, V-E
day, V-J day
1946- Paris peace conference
Dr. Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child
Care"
1948- Marshall Plan helps Europe
1949- NATO treaty
1950-1959: The cold war
and Civil rights
1950- McCarthy era begins; Korean War
1951- Color TV introduced; first h-bomb
exploded
1952- "The pill" produced
1953- Lung cancer reported linked to
smoking
1954- Race segregation in schools declared
unconstitutional (Brown vs. Board)
1955- Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama
boycott bus lines (Rosa Parks ),
Disneyland opened
1957- USSR launches Sputnik (first earth
satellite)
1958- US launches Satellite Explorer I
1960-1969: Kennedy and
Vietnam
1961- Bay of Pigs invasion fails
1962- Cuban Missile Crisis
1963- President John F. Kennedy
assassinated, Nuclear test ban treaty,
coup in South Vietnam
1965- Malcolm X assassinated
1966- Protest against Vietnam
1968- Worldwide student protest
Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy
assassinated
1969- First man on moon, Anti-war
demonstrations, US troop withdrawal
1970-1979: Peace and Civil
Rights again
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1970- Four students killed at Kent State
protests
1972- Nixon first visits China
1974- Watergate scandal, Nixon impeached
1975- Vietnam War ends, Apollo/Soyuz link
in space
1976- Bicentennial celebrations
1977- President Carter pardons draft
evaders
1978- Egypt/Israel summit at Camp David
1979- US Embassy staff taken hostage in
Iran
1980-1989 The “Me”
generation
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1980 Iraq invades Iran
1981 -AIDS identified, IBM
personal computer invented
1982- US back Contra rebels in
Nicaragua, invade Grenada
1986-Challenger exploded in
space
1987- Gorbachev introduces
"perestroika" and
"glasnost“ ending cold war
1990-1999 : The
Electronic Age
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1991- Iraq invades Kuwait/Gulf War
1992- Rodney King riots in L.A.,
WWW born
1993- World Trade Center bombed;
Waco, Texas cult fire
1994- Earthquake in L.A.
1995- Federal building bombed by
McVeigh in Oklahoma
1998- US Embassies bombed in
Kenya,Tanzania
1998- President Clinton impeached
but found not guilty
And into the 21st century!
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2001- Twin towers attacked by
terrorists (9/11)
2001- War in Afghanistan
2003- War in Iraq
2005 Hurricane Katrina in New
Orleans
2008 Barack Obama win election
2009 Michael Jackson dies
What will the future bring?....
That’s all, folks! Now explore for
yourself…
THINGS TO DO
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Research your story with
www.google.com.jp
 www.altavista.com
 www.youtube.com
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よう!
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Watch some movies!
Use your imagination!
Good luck with your stories!! See
you next week

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