THE TIME LINE PART 2

THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE

• The fire lasted two days
• Legend has it that a cow kicked down a lantern in a barn or someone or something created the fire

SPANISH AMERICAN-WAR

• U.S. Troops engaged: 306,760
• Spain declared war in 1898

WAR WORLD 1

• On a Christmas Eve, each side (British and German) declared an unofficial truce.
• War world 1 began on July 28, 1914 and Lasted until November 11,1918

PROHIBITION

• In 1920s the18th amendment was ratified which banned liquor
• The 21st amendment would repeal this ratification stoping the prohibition

ROARING TWENTIES

• In 1920s there was an age of dramatic social and political change.
• The nation's wealth total wealth more than doubled between 1920-1929

THE DUST BOWL

• In the 1930s there were severe draughts and dust storms

THE HOLOCAUST

• Germans took over cities in Denmark and other place in Europe
• Jewish People lost their home,business and things ever since German Nazis took over.

HURRICANE KATRINA

• Hurricane Katrina damage costed about around 100 billion
• The hurricane did not destroy the cities but the floods led great destruction

Great Depression

• The economic failure in all of the states
• Jobs and Banks went bankrupt

KOREAN WAR

• June 25,1950, 75,000 soldiers fought in the war
• 5 million soldiers died in the war

WAR WORLD 2

• There were more 50 million deaths
• British and The Soviet Union allied to defeat Germany and japan

PEARL HARBOR

• Japan Fighter planes destroyed 20 U.S. Naval ships
• Killed about 2000 soldiers

COLD WAR

• U.S. the Soviet Union were fighting that brought almost brought the world to disaster
• All treaties and negotiations failed and each side of the nation's armyp

THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON

• The first humans on moon were: Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong
• This was called Apollo 11

VIETNAM WAR

WATERGATE

• This was a economic scandal by president Nixon
• He was charge with crimes he did or may did not.

VACCINE ERADICATED POLIO

• 1979 U.S. Is now polio free
• Polio crippled about 35,000 people

DESERT STORM

• This was a operation in the Iraq war
• The U.S. army attack Kuwait relentlessly

9/11

• The terrorist attack in September 9th 2001
• The attacks were in New York and Washington D.C.

OKLAHOMA BOMBING

• April 19, 1995, a truck exploded at Alfred P. Federal Building
• It killed millions of people in the explosion

FIRST WOMAN IN THE SUPREME COURT

• Her name is Sandra Day'o Conner
• She was a judge in 2006

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT

• His name is Barack Obama
• He went against Mitt Romney