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Obama Elected - Obama is elected president
Pearl Harbor - Attack on United States military base by Japan, causes United States to join WWI
Reagan Elected - Reagan becomes president after Jimmy Carter
McCarthyism - Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)
Oklahoma City Bombing - Timothy McVeigh destroyed the Oklahoma City Federal Building with a fertilizer bomb
DNC Riots in Chicago, My Lai Massacre - DNC riots were protests against the Vietnam War, birth of the chant "The whole world is watching." My Lai Massacre was a massacre of Vietnamese people that was broadcasted across America
Spanish-American War - A war caused by the sinking of the USS Maine that established the United States as a world power.
Persian Gulf War - Conflict between Iraq and a coalition of countries led by the United States to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait which they had invaded in hopes of controlling their oil supply. A very one sided war with the United States' coalition emerging victorious.
Red Scare - Widespread fear of communism, led to the Palmer Raids during which citizens' rights were violated through raids and deportations
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
Great Recession - Severe economic downturn due to mortgages
Brown v Board of Education - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
Montgomery Bus Boycott - Protest action to end segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama after Rosa Parks, led to the desegregation of public transportation
JFK Assassination - Pretty self explanatory
Stock Market Crash - Price of stocks fell dramatically due to previous speculation, caused the Great Depression
Wright Brothers - Invented the first airplane
Korean War - The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
Truman Doctrine - States that the United States should do anything in its power to prevent communism from spreading, policy of containment
March on Washington - March for civil rights during which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech
Sputnik - World's first satellite, fuelled the Space Race and creation of NASA

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