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TAKS Dates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1877 | Reconstruction Ends Military reconstruction ended in the South with the Compromise of 1877 |
| 1890 | Indian Wars End Battle of Wounded Knee ends Indian Wars; census declares an end of the frontier, all new land settled |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War Triggered by the Maine, the US acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines |
| 1914-1918 | World War One war between Central Powers and the Allied powers. US fought from 1917-1918. Allies won |
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles Treaty that ended World War One; broke up the large empires, charged Germany with paying reparations for the war, established the League of Nations |
| 1900-1918 | Progressive Era Strived to reform society, politics and the economy, concentrated in the urban industrial areas |
| 1919-1920 | Red Scare Fear that the rise of the Bolsheviks in Soviet Union threatened them; many immigrants deported as a result |
| 1919-1933 | Prohibition Emerged from the Progressive need to reform society; outlawed alcoholic beverages at the national level; crime actually increased |
| 1929-1939 | The Great Depression Great economic crisis in the US that started on Oct. 29, 1929; caused by overproduction, buying on margin, high tariffs |
| 1939-1945 | World War Two Global conflict, in which the Allied Powers defeated the Axis Powers; deadliest war in history with between 40 and 60 million dead |
| 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, immediate cause of the US entering WW II |
| 1950-1953 | Korean War Communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950; MacArthur led UN forces in a "police action" |
| 1957 | Sputnik First satellite to orbit earth, Soviet, started the space race, increased emphasis on math and science |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act First significant legislation guarding civil rights since Reconstruction ended |
| 1969 | Man on the Moon American astronauts land on the moon |
| 1973 | End of the Vietnam War Civil war fought between South Vietnam and Vietcong; longest military engagement and first defeat of the US |
| 1947-1989 | Cold War War of diplomacy and nerves to compete for markets and political power in a world economy; between two superpowers, US and USSR, ended when the USSR broke up |
| 1989-1990 | Collapse of Communism in Europe Cold War relations altered when Berlin Wall comes down and the communist satellite nations pull away from the USSR |
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