Immigration
Annexation of Hawaii (1898)
Spanish American War (1898)
Panama Canal
Civil Rights Movement
World War I
Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram
John “Black Jack” Pershing
Submarine Warfare
Treaty of Versaille/League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Great Depression
WPA
New Deal
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act (1930)
Women
19th Amendment - Women’s Suffrage (1920)
Betty Freidan’s “The Feminine Mystique”
Role during wartime - same after?
Acquisition of Philippines
World War II
Potsdam Conference
United Nations
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Tuskegee Airmen
Navajo Code Talkers
Japanese internment camps (cases of Korematsu, Hirabayashi, and Sakai)
Roles of women on homefront and in military
American response to the Holocaust
Korean War
Cold War
Spies
Creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) & National Security Council
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Senator Joseph McCarthy & Red Scare
Hollywood Ten Trial (1948-1950)
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Detente
Impact of the Cold War on America’s relations in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia or Europe
U-2 spy incident
African-Americans
Claudette Colvin/Rosa Parks
W.E.B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
Medger Evers
Emmett Till Murder Trial (1955)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Freedom Rides
Birmingham
Integration of schools
Brown v Topeka Board of Education (1951)
Integration of Ole Miss
Integration of Central High School
Integration of sports
Joe Louis (boxing)
Jackie Robinson (baseball)
College sports
Integration of the military
Spies of Mississippi
Little Rock Nine
Scottsboro Boys Trial (1931-1937)
Harlem Renaissance
Negro Baseball Leagues
Mississippi Burning Trial (1957)
Ku Klux Klan
Space Race
Wernher von Braun
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Explorer I
Alan Shepard
John Glenn
Apollo Program
Challenger
Vietnam Conflict
Tet Offensive
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Robert McNamara
Impact of media on public perception
International intervention/relations
Creation of Israel
Roosevelt Corollary
Open Door Policy
Good Neighbor Policy
American-Chinese relations 1949-2000; Richard Nixon & Visit to China
North American Free Trade Agreement (1992)
Assassination attempts/successes
William McKinley
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Robert F. Kennedy
Famous Trials/Crimes
Lindbergh Kidnapping
Scopes Monkey Trial (teaching of evolution in schools)
Sacco-Vanzetti (1921)
Impact of industries on society
automobile/highway system & rise of the American suburb and changes its significance on U.S. geography, demography etc.
fashion/cosmetics/beauty
computers/technology
medicine
military (adaptation of technology for general population)
space (adaptation of technology for general population)
electricity
Social reform
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Labor unions
Child labor
Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Mother Jones, Frances Perkins
Dorothea Dix, Jane Addams, Francis Willard, Helen Hunt Jackson, Ida B. Wells
Children’s Aid Society
Prohibition
Mass public education & impact on society
Significance of Cesar Chavez and the Migrant Farm Workers Movement
Politics
Boss Tweed
Watergate Scandal
1968 Democratic National Convention
Impact of natural disasters on society, changes?
San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
Spanish Flu (1918)
Dust Bowl
Native Americans
Government-sponsored Indian schools - Carlisle, Jim Thorpe
First Amendment in the 20th Century
censorship
Sports
Effectiveness of Title IX on equal rights for women in education and the professional spheres
Black Sox Trial (gambling/fixing games in World Series) (1921)
Arts
Harlem Renaissance
Radio
Television
Movies - talking films
Jazz, Blues - influence on other genres
Robber barons (John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt)
Rise of the welfare state
1960s/70s Counterculture movement
Wartime propaganda
Jimmy Carter & Camp David Accords
Ronald Reagan & Iran-Contra scandal
Persian Gulf War (1990-91)
Iraq/Afghanistan war (2003-)
Peace Corp
Iran Hostage Crisis