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Major events
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Battle of the Little Bighorn | A number of tribes missed the deadline to continue moving their tribe. The Americans came in to force them out, but they were outnumbered and lost miserably. |
| Wounded knee massacre | |
| Railroad strike of 1877 | |
| Haymarket riot, 1886 | |
| Homestead strike, 1892 | |
| Pullman strike, 1894 | |
| Gilded age | |
| Battle between US and Sioux Indians. | |
| This strike was about Andrew Carnegie cutting wages in a steel plant. It turned very violent. | |
| This strike was about some workers on the railroad who’s wages got reduced from the previous year. They had to send in the government to get it going. | |
| Where some workers were complaining for an eight hour workday. Later that night the protests got violent and killed some people. | |
| This strike was ended with the government stepping in saying the employees couldn’t interfere with their bosses work. | |
| Tied with the urbanization of America and the industry’s. The time when you would “get stuck in a rut” and always be poor or if you were rich you would get richer. | |
| Boxer Rebellion | |
| Spanish American War | |
| Prohibition | |
| Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. | |
| Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. | |
| No alcohol. | |
| Great Depression | |
| World War I | |
| World War II | |
| Battle of Argonne Forest | |
| The first red scare (1920s) | |
| Battle of midway | |
| Bataan Death March | |
| Invasion of Normandy (D Day or operation overlord) | |
| Harlem Renaissance | |
| Sinking of the Lusitania | |
| Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| Dust Bowl | |
| Klondike Gold Rush | |
| severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. | |
| Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. | |
| military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. | |
| an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice. | |
| migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. | |
| was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. | |
| artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. | |
| In Europe began when Hitler's Nazi Germany attacked Poland. ... The countries that fought against Germany and the Axis Powers in Europe were called the Allied Powers. | |
| major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. | |
| As World War I was ending a fear-driven, anti-communist movement | |
| turning point in the Pacific War. Before the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7-8 May 1942, the Imperial Navy of Japan had swept aside all of its enemies from the Pacific and Indian oceans. | |
| forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war | |
| largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June 1944. The invaders were able to establish a beachhead as part of Operation Overlord |
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