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United States Timeline (Page 2) (Page 1) here! (1920) The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote; the sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors was outlawed (1927) Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight (1929) The stock market crash began the Great Depression (1931) The Star-Spangled Banner was adopted as the national anthem (1932) Amelia Earhart was the first woman to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flight (1933) New Deal recovery programs were enacted; Prohibition was repealed (1935) Social Security Act was passed; the Bureau of Investigation became the Federal Bureau of Investigation led by J. Edgar Hoover (1939) World War II began. The U. S. declared neutrality (1941) U. S. declared war on Japan after attacks at Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines; Germany and Italy declared war on the U. S. and the U. S. reciprocated (1945) U. S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrendered; the United Nations was established (1947) The Central Intelligence Agency was established; the U.S. established a policy of aid for countries threatened by Communism, known as the Truman Doctrine; the Cold War with the Soviet Union began (1949) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established (1950) The Korean War began. U. S. armed forces played a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops (1951) President Truman spoke in the first live television broadcast, coast-to-coast (1952) First hydrogen bomb detonated by the U. S. (1953) The Armistice Agreement was signed, ending the Korean War (1961) The Bay of Pigs invasion occurred, an unsuccessful attempt to invade Cuba by Cuban exiles (1962) The U. S. forced the Soviet Union to withdraw its nuclear weapons from Cuba (the Cuban Missile Crisis); Lt. Col. John Glenn was the first U. S. astronaut to orbit the earth (1963) President John F. Kennedy assassinated (1964) North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked a U. S. destroyer in The Gulf of Tonkin; Civil Rights Act becomes a law (1965) U. S. planes began bombing raids of North Vietnam; U. S. combat troops arrived in South Vietnam (1968) American soldiers killed 300 Vietnamese villagers in the My Lai massacre; civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, was assassinated; Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated (1969) U. S. astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., were the first people to walk on the moon (1970) U. S. troops invaded Cambodia (1972) Five employees of President Richard Nixon were caught breaking into the Democratic headquarters in Washington, D. C. (the Watergate scandal) (1973) A cease fire agreement was executed by North and South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and the U. S.; the U. S. troops left Vietnam; the Supreme Court legalized abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy in the Roe v. Wade case; hearings began in the investigation of the Watergate scandal; Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned over charges of income tax evasion and corruption (1974) President Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal (1979) U. S. established diplomatic ties with mainland China; a nuclear reactor malfunction at Three Mile Island caused a near meltdown; Iranian students invaded the U. S. Embassy in Tehran and held the employees as hostages (1980) The FBI implicated a U. S. Senator, seven members of the House of Representatives and 31 other public officials in a bribery investigation, known by the code name, Abscam. (1981) The U. S. hostages from the Embassy in Iran were released (after 444 days in captivity); Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first woman Supreme Court Justice (1986) The space shuttle, Challenger, exploded shortly after take off from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members; U. S. warplanes bombed cities in Libya; the Irangate scandal was uncovered - proceeds from secret sales of U. S. arms to Iran were used illegally to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua (1989) The oil tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground in Prince William Sound, and spilled more than 10 million gallons of oil, the largest in U. S. history (1991) U. S. led an international coalition in military operations (Desert Storm) to drive Iraqis out of Kuwait (1993) A bomb exploded in the basement of the World Trade Center, killing 6 people, injuring 1,000 and causing more than $500 million in damages; federal agents stormed the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas killing 80 cult members; the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted, with the intention of creating a free-trade bloc between the U. S., Canada and Mexico (1995) A bomb in the federal office building in Oklahoma City exploded, killing 168 people (1998) U. S. and Britain launched air strikes against weapon sites in Iraq (1999) 14 students and 1 teacher were killed and 23 others wounded in a shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado; U. S. and China signed trade agreement (2001) Four passenger aircraft were hijacked, two crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and the fourth in a field in Pennsylvania. 3,025 people were killed. The U. S. led massive air strikes at targets in Afghanistan to help defeat the Taliban and to find Osama Bin Laden, who was suspected of being responsible for the attacks on the U. S.; energy giant, Enron, declared bankruptcy after false accounting was discovered (2002) Department of Homeland Security created (2003) The space shuttle, Columbia, exploded upon reentry into the earth's atmosphere killing the seven crew members; the war against Iraq began (2004) Four hurricanes devastated Florida and southern areas of the U. S. (2005) Hurricane Katrina hit the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, 80% of New Orleans was flooded, hundreds of people were killed (2006) Millions of immigrants and supporters staged protests against the U. S. government's plans to criminalize illegal immigrants ..............U.S. TIMELINE (Page 1) here!

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