US History Timeline: 1861 to 1975
Civil War The war was about abolishing slavery and the South seceding from the Union, whereas the North wanted the Union to remain whole and together.
1865
The Civil War ended and slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment.
1898
Spanish-American War The war between Spain and the US regarding the liberation of Cuba; a US victory.
1901
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty Was an agreement between the US and Britain which granted the US the sole right to build a canal, called the Panama Canal, in Central America. Americans worked in hard conditions and got diseases such as malaria from mosquitoes.
1914
The Panama Canal is completed, creating a shorter route for ships.
1917
WWI The US becomes involved in the war (which began in 1914) as part of the Allied Powers against the Central Powers.
1918
WWI ends, with the Allied Powers defeating the Central Powers.
1919
Roaring Twenties was an economic boom in the US after the end of WWI.
1920
Women had gained the right to vote (AKA suffrage: meaning voting rights) by the 19th Amendment.
1929
The Roaring Twenties ended. Great Depression The time of inflation and thousands losing their jobs; a doubtful time of the American economy.
1939
Manhattan Project was the code name for the top-secret project to design the Atomic bomb that would be dropped on Japan to end WWII.
1941
Great Depression ends. US entered WWII to stop Hitler and the Nazis.1944
GI Bill of Rights was a law providing financial aid to veterans entering college or starting businesses. It may have been the best deal ever made by Uncle Sam.
1945
Cold War The US's relation with the Soviet Union became icy cold during this time. The US was trying to keep the Soviet Union from spreading communism and expanding.
Civil Rights Movement The time in which blacks demanded equality through protests and other means of getting their point across. Martin Luther King, Jr. had led millions towards this goal. WWII ends with the atomic bombing of Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
1969
Man on the Moon "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." -Astronaut Neil Armstrong, this was probably the US's greatest achievement in the New Frontier.
1970
The Civil Rights Movement ended.
1975
Vietnam War ended. The US's 1st and only loss. Soldiers and Americans during the war didn't believe it was a war worth fighting for.
Source: The United States, 1763-2000 by John Spiller.
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